and luke. >> matthew and luke depend on mark, which is why those threespels-- matthew, mark, and luke-- are called the "synoptic gospels," because they can be understood together. >> once scholars had decided that mark's gospel was used by matthew and luke, it was possible to compare them and to realize that there was also material with a common sequence and a common content that wasn't in "mark." >> scholars observed that there's a part of the sayings in "matthew" that are exactly identical with sayings in luke. in fact, they're identical in greek, sayings of jesus. now, think: jesus spoke aramaic. so if you were translating aramaic and if i were translating aramaic, they'd come out different, these translations. so you would only have identical... you would only have jesus speaking identical sayings in greek if you had a written translation in greek of his sayings. and so scholars suggested that there must have been, besides "mark," something else written down that would have been a list of the sayings of jesus translated into greek. and they called th

mark matthews, abc7 news. >>> republican presidential candidates are spending one last day campaigning florida ahead of tomorrow's primary. mitt romney and newt gingrich spending much of their time blasting each other. gingrich attacked romney's health care proposal. >> speaker gingrich wasn't happy with the debates. he said after the first debate he didn't do well because the was so quiet, it threw him off. the second debate he said he didn't do well because the crowd was so loud. >> why would anybody in the establishment think that a massachusetts moderate, which is a liberal by republican standards, pro-abortion, phroe gun control, pro-tax increase, pro-gay rightsatxd why would thy think that he is going to be able to debate barack obama? >> recent polls show gingrich faces an uphill climb in florida. a college survey has romney leading the former house speaker by 15 points. >>> president obama turning again to social networking to interact with voters. 2:30 this afternoon he will host a q and ax in a google plus hang out like like a chat room. some will have a live conversation wit

mark matthews, abc7 news. >>> republican presidential candidates are spending one last day campaigning florida ahead of tomorrow's primary. mitt romney and newt gingrich spending much of their time blasting each other. gingrich attacked romney's health care proposal. >> speaker gingrich wasn't happy with the debates. he said after the first debate he didn't do well because the was so quiet, it threw him off. the second debate he said he didn't do well because the crowd was so loud. >> why would anybody in the establishment think that a massachusetts moderate, which is a liberal by republican standards, pro-abortion, phroe gun control, pro-tax increase, pro-gay rightsatxd why would thy think that he is going to be able to debate barack obama? >> recent polls show gingrich faces an uphill climb in florida. a college survey has romney leading the former house speaker by 15 points. >>> president obama turning again to social networking to interact with voters. 2:30 this afternoon he will host a q and ax in a google plus hang out like like a chat room. some will have a live conversation wit

mark matthews spoke with experts for more details. >> reporter: 1989 earthquake was 6.9, they expect6.7 in the next 30 years and if it happens on this fault, it could be as strong as 7.8 quake in 1906. >> there would be tens of thousands of buildings badly damaged, 200,000 san franciscans that would not be able to return to their homes. >> a geotechnical engineer finished a study. the city he says is particularly vulnerable. >> in san francisco the characteristic weakness is that the ground where there is parking or businesses is weaker than the floors above. >> the study warns the stid that 90% of the buildings are residential where most of the risk exists. bay area other major fault is the hayward which lies directly bemeeth the most densely populated part of the east bay. >> it would be very big earthquake, strong shaking. >> they say the hayward fault is capable of 7.3 and is overdue. on average, it has a major shift every 140 years. it's been 143 since the last one. an associate professor of architect if you are at u.c. berkeley, especially at this is construction practices and

. >> mark matthews is here now with what looks to be a close race. >> if you believe polls. the trouble with iowa is that polls are often wrong and 40% are saying they just might change their minds. the contender squeezed in campaigning before the caucuses. >> i work for you. not the only way around. we need to make this a great nation. >> mitt romney is increasingly confident. >> we're going to win this thing. >> romney held steady, rick santorum has emphasizes social issues, opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. >> and we feel good and our money is coming in better than it's come in. >> santorum's organization is not that strong compared to ron paul, the third front runner according to polls. and. >> if you believe polls romney has an edge. if you believe an organization, then ron paul has the edge. if you believe in a dark horse at the last minute, then, it's sandor yum. >> the trouble with the caucuses is that they're not a pure reflection of public opinion. they're a reflection whof is willing to go out in january to actually stand in the corners of a room and c

. >> mark matthews is here now. we're expecting a close one. >> it's changing.is underway and it's a three way race just 16% of the votes counted texas congressman ron paul is now in the lead with 24% trailing just a hair behind is mitt romney with 23% in a dead heat with former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. that is a little bit different than it looked in polls. mitt romney spent the day squeezing hands, and pressing his advantage in the polls. >> we're going to win this thing. >> behind him is rick santorum and ron paul. >> i work for you. not the other way around. >> we need to make our nation a great nation once again. >> ron paul has a strong organization but it's santorum on the rise thanks to a strong support from evangelicallal christians, responding to santorum on social issues, opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. >> we feel good that we've got the organization and money coming in better than its ever come in. >> bruce cane. >> if you believe polls, romney has an edge f you believe an organization, ron paul has the edge. if you believe i

mark matthew was more on today's announcement. >> when shirley filled out her home improvement loan documents her lender told her the adjustable rate was only temporary. >> do this. this noise problem. in a couple years we go back in. we'll refinance i it. at the 30 years rate and everything will be fine. well that wasn't what happened. >>reporter: that was 2007. she has been protesting her higher than market rate interest rate payments ever since. and she believes the only way the bank will budge is if the president makes them. >> i think that they all need to be held accountable for this. >>reporter: in tuesday state of the union address president obama made that promise. >> hold accountable those who broke the law. assistance to homeowner and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many americans. >>reporter: today attorney general holder announced formation of fraud task force. >> this will im paragraph our ability to ensure justice for victims and help restore faith in our financial market and institutions and allow us to answer the call that president obama issued earl

mark matthews reports. >> we got a call from the dispatch half hour later the contractor made a call to yip 11. >>reporter: he's the chief building inspector for the city of milpitas and the only person authorized by the city to talk to report bears washington happened. he says the contractor tried to pull the carpenter from the ditch at 1 10:30 in the morning when the cave in happened but was fable to rescue the man. when police and firefighters showed up, it was too late. rescuers determined it was also too dangerous with the hillside and ditch still unstable. >> we have another contractor on site. excavated on the site on the area where the body lay and within grave minutes the work is going to be complete and safe to reach out and pull the body out. >>reporter: contractor for u.s. sign investment has left the country. project manager tells me he's in china. we have also learned that the city of milpitas issued a stop work order on this project last wednesday. three days before the accident. because a building inspector determined that the ditch was a safety hazard there wasn't ad

for example, in mark's gospel, and, in fact, in matthew, mark, and luke-- all three-- this event occurs in the last week of jesus' life and is clearly the event which brings him to the attention both of the temple leadership and the roman authorities. it is, in effect, what gets him killed. john's gospel, interestingly enough, though, puts the story of the cleansing of the temple as the very first episode in jesus' public career, more than two years earlier, and no mention is made of it near his death. so, there are a few problems with the... with the story itself, although it is one of the stories that appears in all the gospels, so something is going on there. >> it's unclear how he actually gets into trouble. he wouldn't have wandered into the crosshairs of the priests because, compared to how the pharisees are criticizing the priests, what jesus doing... is doing is fairy minimal. if he had been complaining about the priests, or criticizing them, or criticizing the way the temple was being run, this would just... it's business as usual. this is... this is one of the aspects of being

megyn: matthew, mark, luke and john all looking at the same guy coming from a different angle about whats going on. you're right but craig shirley writes columns about newt gingrich being there and being supportive. you can go at this time for at that time, at this time for at that time. the bottom line was he was there. and where was mitt romney he was. megyn: sa u.n. gus. did he make mistakes, absolutely, did he do things that were very right? yes. where was he in the 1990s, why does the congress today have republicans in leadership, because it you will started in the 1990s. megyn: newt gingrich following the reagan revolution and even nancy reagan in 1995 passed the mantle to in fact newt gingrich and the republicans because of the 104 congress. so again you can find people on one side and people on the other side, but this is what my father really talked about also is the fact this politics of self destruction that is going on in the 11th commandment and i think this is ultimately what really can ultimately hurt the republican party and the nominee in this next election. megyn: yeah.

camelot surviving stenographers and chris matthews to work hard to gloss over of the 35th president actual accomplishments do when he should have done is all mark first. it is whimsical and ideological the great thing about kennedy is his record is on the surface. this president is fighting for reelection house to look back kennedy's strength is you know, what he would do in the second term because he was doing a. look what happened when he was killed. he had the civil rights bill the week with by today that outlaws jim crow. you can walk into any restaurant you have to adjust the american. he was fighting to get that through the house judiciary committee weeks before he was killed. the moon program the saturn rocket and jackie said he wanted his initial secretly put on the next rocket because they knew fed is the one that would past the soviet union thrust to get it to the moon. so competition at the third world he was worried about winning against the soviet union that was the whole strategy the peace corps, alliance for progress, special forces, don't escalate to a point* of a nuclear conflict. that was his great strength. know how anybody e

matthews will host a post debate special. also live from new hampshire. remembering the tragedy in tucson. it's nearly one year since the deadly shooting rampage. how gabby giffords plans to mark the somber anniversary. >> in a few hours, the texas teen mistakenly deported will return home to the united states. shocking new studies here. the new study finds that memory loss may start much earlier than we original thought. not good news. we will be back in three. what makes scottrade your smartphone's most powerful trading app ? total access - to everything. from idea to research to trade. including financials, indicators and real-time streaming quotes. whether you check your investments every day or every minute, our app can take them from thought to trade. at scottrade, seven-dollar trades are just the start. try our powerful mobile app. it's another reason more investors are saying... i'm with scottrade. ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. >>> officers and a congressman will attend the candlelight vigil. it will mark the painful anniversary of the shooting rampage that left six people

mark and i trailing newt around and an amazing thing happened up in marshalltown where he was not scheduled to take questions from reporters but got goaded into a media availability where our colleague chris matthewsngs. and essentially got newt engaged enough that he started talking about his intention to finally do what he has not done, which is go very harshly negative against romney as we get out of iowa. he's looking past iowa because it looks like he's not going to finish much higher than fourth. but he was clear and explicit the way he is, talked like a political consultant and said this is what i'm going to do. i'm going to go to new hampshire, i'm going to talk about romney being too moderate, about romney being bad on planned parenthood. he laid out essentially a post-iowa strategy premised on using some of that money he now has, the $9 million that's come into his campaign in the last month to hammer romney in a way that he has not been hammered as you said mika and joe. romney's been unscathed. not anymore. >> and by the way, you've got to look at on the calendar, there'll be a lot of people that will be declaring the end of his campaign. we're in iowa, when this phase ends, we go to n