Mark: in 12 places, the two agree.
Luke: in 12 places, the two agree.
John: has none.
Matthew: in 17 places, alone.
Mark: in 6 places, alone.
Luke: in 39 places, alone.
John: in 36 places, alone.

PREFACE TO THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW

This Gospel is written according to Matthew; for Matthew himself, a disciple of the Lord, wrote this Gospel. At the beginning, he relates to us the birth of the Savior according to the flesh from the lineage of David. For this reason, he collects the genealogy until Christ, totaling forty-two generations. He presents in order the baptism by John, the temptation on the mountain Original: "i lerinn." While "mountain" is the literal translation, it refers to the wilderness temptation., and the great signs and miracles performed by the Savior. He describes the choosing of the disciples, the mystery of the betrayal, and the end—how He was delivered to Pilate, was crucified in the body, and the body was placed in a tomb, and how the soldiers divided His garments. Likewise, he tells of the resurrection after two days In the Armenian tradition, this refers to the "third day" (counting the day of the crucifixion as the first). and the command given to the disciples to make disciples of all the nations and to baptize them. He commanded to be with them all the days until the end of the world.

Matthew wrote his Gospel in the city of Jerusalem in the Hebrew language Early Christian tradition often held that Matthew originally wrote in Hebrew or Aramaic before the Greek version was produced., eight years after the Savior's ascension, at the request of the Church of Jerusalem. It contains 355 chapters Original: "ՅԾԵ." These refer to the ancient "Ammonian" sections rather than modern chapters., 32 testimonies, and 2,600 verses.

• In the original manuscript, the chapter headings of these Gospels were written inconsistently according to their source. For Matthew, it was written as: The Beginning of the chapters of Matthew’s Gospel; and for John: The 8 Chapters of John’s Gospel; while for Mark and Luke: The Beginning of the chapters of the Gospel according to Mark, or Luke. Looking at other more accurate examples, we have set them uniformly as is appropriate.
• In the totaling of the harmonies Refers to the "Canon Tables" or "Concordance" system used to find parallel passages across the four Gospels., as well as in the beginnings of chapters and their headings, many differences were found between various copies. Considering it unnecessary to note them here one by one, we have corrected the obvious errors in our copy according to the proper order.