Category: 4 Gospels + Good News of the NEW Testament
What are the Gospels?
FOUR Gospels:
GOOD NEWS! (That’s what Gospel means.)
Matthew, Mark, Luke & John begin the New Testament proclaiming the Good Newsof Israel’s long-awaited Messiah and talk of JESUS Christ.
The four Gospels are first hand witness + proclaiming GOOD NEWS
by two Jewish Apostles of the Messiah JESUS, Matthew & John
Two gentile(non-Jewish) followers of THE WAY of Jesus Christ, Mark & Luke, who proclaim the GOSPEL recorded from witness of Peter, Paul and other Apostles and disciples of JESUS in the first century.
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I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:1-2 KJV
Each year as the festival crowds approached Jerusalem, weary and faithful Jews making the pilgrimage would pause to rest in places nearby before their walking ascent up the hill leading to the Temple.
Bethany would have been one of these places – a town where Jesus would stay with a good friend and later perform a sign the He IS the Messiah of Israel.
John’s Gospel begins by mentioning the village along with details of Mary and Martha which do not happen until later, but of course have already happened by the time John writes his Good News to the churches and unbelievers.
Although we have just read of a story from the festival of Hanukkah where Jesus may have also stayed over at Bethany (we cannot be certain), I remind us that John’s Gospel is not strictly chronoligical.
The importance here relates to the characters – the real people of this family living in the village of Bethany outside Jerusalem. And what we are about to witness is not only a miracle and sign of Jesus, but the human love of true friends of this family by the Lord.
A messenger asks Jesus to help a friend
3 So the sisters sent a messenger to tell Yeshua, “Lord, your close friend is sick.”
These friends knew where to find Jesus, where He was preaching.
Jesus most likely had already been in this part of Judea, but departed for Samaria and other distant places as was His custom traveling from town to town preaching the Good News.
4 When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
John gives us an important background to their friendship without providing specific details of where Jesus was teaching, but he tells us something important about this family in Jesus’ earthly relationships.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
John 11:5
It is the same description John uses so often to describe the Incarnate Lord Jesus – ἀγαπάω – agapaō – ‘of persons to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly.
Christians are to love the world in this same way Jesus loved Mary and Martha and Lazarus. For John uses this same word to describe how God ‘loved’ humans made in his image.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
Yet the messenger might have thought Jesus’s response to be somewhat dismissive. “This sickness is not to end in death…”
6 Yet, when Yeshua heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days. Then, after the two days, Yeshua said to his disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
What do we fear?
Even in the unexpected crisis of these last days what does man fear most?
Death!
It was the death of their brother Mary and Martha feared. And the Apostles also fear capture and death due to several previous attempts by Jerusalem’s religious officials to kill their friend Jesus. The Disciples fear death even though Jesus had demonstrated His power over nature time and time again.
8 The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, not long ago the Jews wanted to stone you to death. Do you really want to go back there?”
9 Yeshua answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day don’t stumble, because they see the light of this world. However, those who walk at night stumble because they have no light in themselves.”
Jesus again assures His own Apostles that He is the Light of the world and reminds that Jerusalem’s leaders have no light of God in their actions.
Lazarus
… and after that He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him out of sleep.”
Of course the Apostles continue in their regular banter questioning the Lord as to His motives. Yet before we proceed to Jesus’ sign, let’s take a closer look at His friend Lazarus.
Λάζαρον –
Λάζαρος Lazaros – Lazarus = “whom God helps” (a form of the Hebrew name Eleazar)
Jesus also tells a parable of another man, Lazarus, a poor beggar who died and God helped.
אֶלְעָזָר
el·ä·zär’ – same meaning in Hebrew was the name of Aaron’s son, also a Levite Priest, as well as several others in this Bible.
Clearly, if Jesus is going to help Lazarus it is God who helps the man close to death.
Lazarus is dead
Jesus has not spelled it out in His first mention to the Apostles as they attempt to convince the Lord not to return to Judea.
12 Then the disciples said to him,
“Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”
(The Disciples certainly do not care to risk returning to Bethany near Jerusalem.)
14 Then Yeshua told them plainly,
“Lazarus has died, but I’m glad that I wasn’t there so that you can grow in faith. Let’s go to Lazarus.”
How does Jesus know these things?
Can a mere man know such truths?
Of course the Disciples had witnessed such knowledge possible only from God before. Yet like us, they lack faith that Jesus can take authority over the situation as it involves their mortal lives.
16 Thomas, who was called Didymus, said to the rest of the disciples,
“Let’s go so that we, too, can die with Yeshua.”
Isn’t that how we feel when confronted by death?
How will Jesus help us, we ask ourselves?
Can the Son of Man HELP a man already dead?
That’s the question lurking in the back of our minds when we pray to God.
Can God help me even though I am dead? Will the Lord keep me from death?
Jesus returns to Bethany and eventually Jerusalem to answer the immediate questions of Lazarus’ death, the soon-to-be asked questions about the Disciples’ deaths due to following Jesus and most importantly our eternal questions about death appointed to each mortal man and our only hope of resurrection to the Light of eternal life.
Just a reminder to Christians of this 21st century, Jesus was Jewish.
Yeshua, from Ἰησοῦς in Greek, Iēsous from יְהוֹשׁוּעַ Hebrew meaning Yĕhowshuwa` (Joshua or Jehoshua = “Jehovah is salvation”) in English: Jesus. (The One born to a Jewish mother, a virgin betrothed to a faithful Jew, Joseph son of Jacob {Matthew 1:16}.)
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Gospel of Matthew 1:1 KJV
Although we have been following Jesus through the Gospel of John, for our understanding of the Messiah and His jewish upbringing as the Son of Man, we have just left some predictions of the Prophet Amos.
Then He brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces the east; and it was shut. The LORD said to me, “This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut.
Ezekiel 44:1-2 NASB
“The priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.
2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
7 Yeshua emphasized, “I can guarantee this truth: I am the gate for the sheep.
John 10:7 NOG
Later Jesus will tell the Apostles to also be wary of these religious hired hands determined to devour all opposition.
John tells us how Jerusalem’s religious leaders opposed the Messiah after Jesus healed a man blind from birth. But Jesus tells the crowds a parable against them.
12 A hired hand isn’t a shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep. When he sees a wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and quickly runs away.
John 10:11 NKJV
19 Again the Jews were divided because of these words…
After this, a most popular Messiah Jesus enters Jerusalem for a festival.
Jewish festivals
22 Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
A brief overview:
The Hebrew Civil Year began with Tishri [October]. At the Exodus the Ecclesiastical Year was made to begin with Abib [April], which, after the Captivity, was called also Nisan.- Hitchcock’s Topical Commentary
“Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.
Deuteronomy 16:16 NASB
But this minor feast (we now call the festival of lights) held importance to a Jerusalem which presumed to have purified and rededicated the Temple. In commemoration of the cleansing and re-dedication of the Temple after its pollution by Antiochus Epiphanes. –H.
The Story Behind the Feast of Dedication
Prior to the year 165 BC, the Jewish people in Judea were living under the rule of the Greek kings of Damascus. During this time Seleucid King Antiochus Epiphanes, the Greco-Syrian king, took control of the Temple in Jerusalem and forced the Jewish people to abandon their worship of God, their holy customs, and reading of the Torah. He made them bow down to the Greek gods. According to ancient records, King Antiochus IV defiled the Temple by sacrificing a pig on the altar and spilling its blood on the holy scrolls of Scripture.
23 Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon’s Colonnade. The Jews surrounded him and asked,
“How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
25 “I did tell you and you don’t believe,” Jesus answered them.
Do you believe His signs?
Even in this day some will believe and come to faith through the Messiah, He IS the gate to salvation and the door to heaven. Others remain blind to truth.
Jesus has already given several signs, proofs in various places of miracles only God could do. The most recent of these, of course, was giving a blind man sight right there in Jerusalem.
“The works that I do in my Father’s name testify about me. But you don’t believe because you are not of my sheep.
Who do you follow?
Some preacher, a rabbi or teacher?
None are the Son of God, the Shepherd of the chosen ones of God our Father.
The Way to heaven
27 My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.
28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.
Why would you doubt the authoritative gentle voice of the Shepherd at the door?
If you believe in God Almighty our God and Father, do you not see His power and compassion in the Only Son, Shepherd of the chosen to enter into His Glory?
Is Jesus your Lord and Shepherd?
For His love and anointing must be clear to those who are no longer blind.
Would you humbly turn from your sin to hear His gentle voice?
“Follow Me.” “I am the way the truth and the life.”*
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
A decision of life or death
How many times can you recall that the LORD strikes down the one who sins?
More times in scripture than we can recall.
The LORD GOD IS ALMIGHTY! Fear only him, the LORD, the Existing One.
John the Baptist had testified of the Holy Spirit of God descending upon Jesus.
The Lord Jesus raised the dead, healed the sick, gave sight to the blind. A Man of God thought to be from Nazareth asked men and women to follow Him.
Jesus, Son of Man as He referred to himself, showed signs and wonders to many.
What is left for the Messiah to tell us?
If we must follow Jesus, is He God in Person? – a “Son of Man” the very human Image of God (as a Son of His Father born to a woman)?
For the LORD God is One and our decision to obey the LORD is a matter of eternal life or judgment and punishment of our soul in death.
“I and My Father are one.”
John 10:30 KJV
Truth? or Blasphemy?
31 Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone him.
32 Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me?”
33 “We aren’t stoning you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because you—being a man—make yourself God.”
34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, I said, you are gods? If he called those whom the word of God came to ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken— do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?
Jesus, Son of Man filled with the Holy Spirit of Almighty God! Once again the Lord confronts the hired hands of Herod, wolves luring the faithful away from the Shepherd, with Scripture and Truth.
How can they refute what everyone has seen with their own eyes?
37 “If I am not doing my Father’s works, don’t believe me…”
You too have seen many signs and miracles. Those in addition to Jesus’ compassion and love for the lost who have sinned.
A few repent seeking return to the safety of the Shepherd.
38 “… But if I am doing them and you don’t believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the Father.”
Jesus and God the Father are One! Jesus and the Holy Spirit of God are One!
What was it Jesus told the Pharisee Nicodemus?
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
But those who will not bow down to the LORD God accuse the Son of Man of blasphemy. (Let the casual 21st c. reader understand the significance of blasphemy– a sin against God requiring death of the offender.)
39 Then they were trying again to seize him, but he eluded their grasp.
A return to the wilderness
40 He went back across the Jordan River and stayed in the place where John first baptized people.
41 Many people went to Yeshua. They said, “John didn’t perform any miracles, but everything John said about this man is true.” 42 Many people there believed in Yeshua.
The Apostle John has already revealed the Good News of the Messiah proven by many signs in many places.
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
“But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
“But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.
“You have sent to John [the baptist], and he has testified to the truth.
“If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
“Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me?
The One Truth & nothing but The Truth
“I and the Father are One!”
John 10:30 – Strong’s: b) metaphorically, “union” and “concord,” e.g., Jhn 10:30; 11:52; 17:11, 21, 22; Rom 12:4, 5; Phl 1:27
This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.
What other sign do you need to open your eyes to what Jesus plainly has said?
I and the Father are One!
NEXT: The Resurrection of Lazarus ... God-willing...
After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said,
“Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.”
The Revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle John – 4:1 NASB
Heaven’s door
Let’s not miss that the Pharisees’ debates with the Messiah question His authority from the Lord our God and Father. And Jesus’ signs and parables all point heavenward.
Do you desire eternal life?
It is a question of highest importance. And who may enter the gate or the door to eternal life in heaven?
How can we know? Who will unravel this great mystery of eternal life in heaven and the judgment of sins punished by a sentence to hell?
Does it help you to read this Hebrew scripture about Moshe (Moses)?
OR does the fact of the Hebrew language create a closed door to the Bible for you?
Then read translation into English about Moshe choosing who will enter the camp of the LORD and who Moses sentences to death.
Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD’S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
Exodus 32:26 KJV
Sometimes the Lord places a Moses or David or Prophet at a gate or the door to guard the integrity of His Own Righteousness.
We addressed this first by our look at the gatekeeper and watchmen. But frequently religion’s wide door or misled path will turn the faithful away from Scripture.
Not really, if you have received the filtered view of religious teachers’ blind teaching of faith.
In fact many in Jerusalem’s crowds depended on the Pharisees or Rabbi’s to tell them what Scripture says. Even the literate often read their Empire-wide language of Greek, but not Hebrew.
So the symbols of Jesus’ parables create important universal pictures to those barred by the misleading of Israel’s shepherds of the gates and the door of worship of the Lord God our Father.
Religious leaders who manipulate Scripture become barriers to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and a closed door to repentance by sinners.
Roger Harned – talkofJesus.com
Symbolism of a gate or a door
Heaven must have a gate (of sorts), like a walled city.
Not everyone gets into the heavenly Jerusalem.
The LORD must have watchmen (perhaps angels – spirit beings who serve the King as messengers and guards in the glorious heavenly city of God).
Who does Almighty God anoint to sit in the gate as the door to enter eternal life?
David? Perhaps Moses? Even the great Prophet Elijah?
No, none of these.
And certainly not a false prophet after Jesus claiming light from the place of darkness. Not even leaders of angels such as Gabriel or Michael. And most certainly no idolatrous intercessors of mothers, antiquated saints leaving only dust in place, or Apostles long passed.
Who then sits at the door of heaven – the gate of eternal life?
The door IS the very Lamb of God, the Shepherd of shepherds, the Son of Man, Christ Jesus!
To Him and no other we sinners must appeal by His mercy to enter eternal life by the grace of His Own Blood of Perfect Sacrifice.
Are we blind too?
Jesus the Messiah, who healed not only this blind man but others as well, clearly sheds light on the judgment for which He is sent to the world.
But as the Lord points out, some shepherds like the Pharisees really don’t see. For the prophet Isaiah had accused:
And they are shepherds who have no understanding; They have all turned to their own way, Each one to his unjust gain, to the last one.
These pharisees, rabbis of Judah confront their Messiah time after time questioning and denying His authority. They attempt to discredit Him even after another sign of Jesus. For a man born blind received his sight from Jesus.
John 9: 24-25 A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God by telling the truth,” they said. “We know this man is a sinner.” He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”
John 9:35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
40 Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”
41 Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.
Now this scene of controversy argued before the crowds of Jerusalem plays out in another parable of Jesus told against the pharisees just after the man born blind worships Jesus as Lord.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.
Gospel of John 10:1 NASB – Caution to believers from Christ Jesus
2 But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.
The LORD is my shepherd
מִזְמֹור לְדָוִד יְהוָה רֹעִי לֹא אֶחְסָֽר׃
You know the imagery of the Messiah and require no translation or interpretation of this parable connected to the sign of Jesus leading a blind man to worship Him.
Suppose heaven is so easy to enter as a wall without the door of the shepherd who gathers his sheep.
Can you climb over an unguarded wall?
Of course.
Could just any shepherd appear to lead the sheep anywhere, even to destruction?
Even in this day they often do.
If heaven’s chosen sheep gathered within the walls of the holy (separated) place cannot trust their shepherd as a door, will the wolves not enter and false shepherds lead them astray?
Are the sheep not destined for the slaughter of sacrifice if the Perfect Sacrifice has not already been made?
I AM the Good Shepherd – Jesus
3 “To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
The Messiah, the Shepherd of heaven, gathers them to a place where He IS the door.
Then He calls to all the sheep, even by name.
The Lord knows them personally. He makes no mistakes and they know His voice rather than that of a false teacher or shepherd who would lead them into the pit of destruction.
Jesus knows you. Do you know Him?
4 “And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
6 Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.
Will the blind shepherds hear?
Pharisees, rabbis who teach what they will, preachers who claim they can lead everybody to heaven – all these shepherds, Jesus says, are blind.
And clearly they do not see the Scripture before them, let alone share the Way, the Truth and the Life eternal of the Gospel Good News of our Savior from death, judgment and punishment.
All these believe that heaven has no door or they pretend to hold the only key to the gate (if indeed heaven had a golden locked gate).
After Jesus’ resurrection, clearly heaven’s gate is no guarded cemetery or grand golden cathedral depicting idols offering prayers for your admittance.
These false shepherds whitewash the entrance of hell with a hologram of heaven’s golden gate, through which they lead many sheep of the world to the slaughter of hell’s punishment!
The Good Shepherd
7 So Jesus said to them again,
“Truly, truly, I say to you,
I am the door of the sheep.
We are sheep in this world of darkness being led to the slaughter.
False teachers seek to sacrifice follower after follower into the fires of destruction!
The Messiah Jesus accuses these of the misleading the sheep. These self-appointed shepherds over our unrighteousness deceive and destroy.
8 All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
Jesus speaks of false messiahs, kings and leaders who only claim to follow the Lord, all who “do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.”
I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
John 10:9 NASB
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
Jesus reiterates the contrast between Pharisees and false leaders of God’s people and himself, the One Shepherd of the Lord our God.
The Sacrifice of the Good Shepherd
I have told you once that I AM the door.
When you did not understand I told the crowds my clear meaning and purpose of coming here to lead My sheep.
Now, those with ears to hear, in addition to the clear signs before your eyes here is how you can hear the Shepherd who knows you by name.
“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
John 10:11 NASB
What does this mean? (For it has not yet happened?)
Jesus gives the hearer of His voice no time to consider a wrong solution to our leading by God, but again shows the false leadership of the Pharisees who have redefined requirements for the flock to enter heaven.
12 “The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away…
Here into Jerusalem Rome has followed other conquerors and the hired hands of Herod abandon the faith of Abraham adding new requirements to the Law of Moses.
“… then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
I know My sheep
Who will lead the scattered sheep sent to Babylon and Persia and again to Egypt then conquered once more by a mighty Greece? And though only a remnant returns, who will go into all the world now conquered by Rome?
The shepherds have divided and run, returned and divided the flock.
14 “I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. [KJV]
15 “As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. [NKJV]
Now Jesus again states His relationship to God the Father as the Messiah and Savior of Israel. The Lord also clearly states fulfillment of Scripture concerning the gentiles or nations.
A Savior of the Nations
I have other sheep, which are not of this fold;
I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice;
and they will become one flock with one shepherd.
The Good News of the Messiah Jesus to the gentiles – John 10:16 NASB
Three points here in the parable of the Good Shepherd:
The Messiah saves some who are not Jews.
Jesus will include the chosen of the nations to ‘follow Him’ as the Good Shepherd of all sheep and they too will hear His call to the promise of eternal life.
Jews who follow the Messiah and Gentiles will become one flock of the faithful with Him – the Good Shepherd of Israel.
Sacrifice of the Shepherd for the sins of the sheep
Would a father sacrifice his own son?
Abraham offered to do so, believing that the LORD would do right.
Jesus makes personal reference after personal reference to God as His Father. Would God provide the Sacrifice for your sins and for mine as the Lord did for Abraham?
Why would a Righteous Father send His Perfect Son to a world of sinners?
17 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.
“No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
“This command I have received from My Father.”
Jesus clearly states after His parable of the Good Shepherd that God His Father commanded Him – the Son of God and only Good Shepherd – to sacrifice His mortal life for the sheep. AND He has the authority and power or the resurrection of life itself!
Controversial?
Even to this day and in every time of these last days.
19 The Jews who heard these words were again divided. Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him?”
21 But others said, “These are not the sayings of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
Do you see?
Does Jesus open your eyes to the Light of eternal life? Or are you blind too?
What shepherd do you follow?
The One Who IS the door?
Or have you heard so many who make other claims about heaven?
And Jesus said,
“For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.”
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