Gospel of the Ebionites sequence of four fragments arranged in the order of Vielhauer & Strecker from the beginning of the gospel are as follows: The three quotations by Epiphanius in "Panarion" 30.13.6, 4, and 7, respectively, form the opening of the gospel narrative, including the mission of John the Baptist, his appearance and diet, and the baptism of Jesus by John. The beginning of the gospel (13.6) has parallels to the Gospel of Luke but in abbreviated form. The text shows a familiarity with the infancy narrative of Luke 1:5 despite lacking a birth narrative of its own. Quoting from the text regarding
Gospel of the Nazarenes in the Hebrew language.(Eusebius, "Historia Ecclesiastica", 6.25) There exist two views concerning the relationship of the surviving citations from the "Gospel of the Nazarenes": Due to contradictions in the account of the baptism of Jesus, and other reasons, most biblical scholars consider that the "Gospel of the Nazarenes", "Gospel of the Hebrews", and "Gospel of the Ebionites" are three separate Gospels, even though Jerome linked the Nazarenes to the Ebionites in their use of the "Gospel of the Hebrews". Philipp Vielhauer writes of the Greek/Latin fragments collected as the Gospel of the Nazarenes that "Its literary character shows the GN