The 16th century witnessed a major increase in the introduction of Gospel harmonies.

It is thought to have been composed during the middle of the 2nd century, since several other gospel harmonies are known to be from this period.

However, given that the non-canonical gospels generally have no time sequence, this table is not a Gospel harmony.

The 16th century witnessed a major increase in the introduction of Gospel harmonies and the parallel column structure became widespread.

Details vary from book to book, see Gospel harmony for the attempts to harmonize them.

"We took gospel harmonies," said Harold Reid, "and put them over in country music."

He then analyzes and relates the specific passages between the Gospels, to build a Gospel harmony.

He would take an urban rhythm-and-blues tune and add rural slide guitar, or pack it with dense gospel harmonies.

All of his gospel quotations seem to be drawn from the Diatessaron, the gospel harmony that served the church at his time.

Another genre is that of gospel harmonies, in which the four canonical gospels were selectively recast as a single narrative to present a consistent text.