Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament In the New Testament, the term "Rhabbouni" is only used by the Magdalene here in John 20:16 and in by the blind man Bartimaeus in the account of the miracle of healing the blind near Jericho. The Rabbi title is used in several New Testament episodes to refer to Jesus, but more often in the Gospel of John than elsewhere and does not appear in the Gospel of Luke at all. In Matthew's account of the Last Supper () when Jesus says that he will be betrayed by one of his Apostles, one after another the Apostles say "Surely it
Synoptic Gospels that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, I too decided, after investigating everything carefully from the very first, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the truth concerning the things about which you have been instructed. The "synoptic problem" is the question of the specific literary relationship among the three synoptic gospels—that is, the question as to the source or sources upon which each synoptic gospel depended when it was written. The