Popular opinion may think that the Gospels are biographies of Jesus,

流行的观点可能认为福音书是耶稣的传记
but they're not biographies,

可其实它们不是传记
at least not anything like the modern sense.

至少跟现代的传记完全不同
We don't get much of a personal portrait of Jesus from the gospels.

在这些福音书里看不到太多对耶稣的描写
We don't know anything about how he developed,

我们完全不知道他如何成长
how he went from being an obnoxious teenager

他如何从一个讨厌的少年
to being an apocalyptic prophet.

变为说预言的先知
We don't know about his relationship to his parents,

我们不知道他与父母的关系如何
his brothers and sisters,

兄弟姐妹之间的关系如何
we don't know all kinds of things that a modern biography

我们不知道任在何现代传记里
would automatically be expected to tell you.

理所当然会告诉你的东西
The Gospels aren't biographies.

福音书不是传记