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Mark 14 - Jesus is arrested, then he appears before the Jewish council, then Peter denies him.
Matthew 26 - Jesus is arrested, then he appears before the council, then Peter denies him.
Luke 22 - Jesus is arrested, Peter denies him and Jesus turns around and LOOKS at Peter, then Jesus appears before the council.
How do you account for this major discrepancy?
(By the way, I really love the way Luke is so obvious with his clues that it is all made up.)
Regardless of the order... all three events occurred. The importance is that the events occurred... not the exact order in which they occurred.
Side note... I would tend to believe Luke's order of events since that was his stated purpose.
Luke 1:3 - So it seemed good to me as well, because I have followed all things carefully from the beginning, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus
Mark 14 - Jesus is arrested, then he appears before the Jewish council, then Peter denies him.
Matthew 26 - Jesus is arrested, then he appears before the council, then Peter denies him.
Luke 22 - Jesus is arrested, Peter denies him and Jesus turns around and LOOKS at Peter, then Jesus appears before the council.
How do you account for this major discrepancy?
(By the way, I really love the way Luke is so obvious with his clues that it is all made up.)
The Gospels are not necessarily a chronological history of events. They are collections of stories about Jesus, and based on the sermons of the apostles. The fact that an event is described before one in another Gospel does not mean to suggest the Gospel presents it as happening in that time frame. Remember the purpose of the Gospels -- they were written to specific people to relate specific events and facts about Jesus.
If you and I each wrote a research paper talking about 5 major events, and I listed #5 before # 3 but didn't say it happened that way, would you accuse me of being wrong? Or would there possibly be a reason I just wanted to discuss it at that point in the paper?
There is no discrepancy here. Peter's three denials of Jesus took place over a period of time while Jesus was standing before the Council. Luke, in giving his account, simply chose to first mention Peter's denials before mentioning the council, while Matthew and Mark chose to first mention the counsel before talking about Peter's denials.
Seems that there are many threads by people who just trying to discredit God and His Word , and these people cannot understand what the scriptures mean because they cannot understand the grammar of the text , as they might not have the Spirit of God on their lives
The Gospels are not necessarily a chronological history of events. They are collections of stories about Jesus, and based on the sermons of the apostles. The fact that an event is described before one in another Gospel does not mean to suggest the Gospel presents it as happening in that time frame. Remember the purpose of the Gospels -- they were written to specific people to relate specific events and facts about Jesus.
If you and I each wrote a research paper talking about 5 major events, and I listed #5 before # 3 but didn't say it happened that way, would you accuse me of being wrong? Or would there possibly be a reason I just wanted to discuss it at that point in the paper?
If that is what you believe, then you cannot honestly say that the gospels were divinely inspired.
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The gospels are based on what Paul wrote. None of them appeared earlier. Paul invented it, and with each gospel, the further away they got from Paul's' writings, the more embellishment to detail.
The gospels are based on what Paul wrote. None of them appeared earlier. Paul invented it, and with each gospel, the further away they got from Paul's' writings, the more embellishment to detail.
Amazing isn't it?
That's not true at all. There were oral traditions which were passed down from the beginning of the Church during the time of eyewitnesses who could attest to the accuracy of those oral traditions and prevent them from becoming distorted. As well, those scholars who hold to Markan priority generally believe in either the two source or four source hypothesis and posit the possible existence of sources such as 'Q,' 'M', And 'L,' from which much information was obtained for the Gospels.
Luke admits at the beginning of his Gospel that he investigated everything carefully regarding those things handed down by those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning. The apostles who walked with Jesus were certainly among those eyewitnesses that Luke interviewed.
Scholars also acknowledge the existence of pre-Pauline traditions which were handed down from the beginning of the church. One such example of a pre-Pauline tradition or creed is 1 Corinthians 15:3-7. Paul states that he received that information which he was passing on. Most scholars believe that Paul received this information from Peter and James when he went to see them some three years after his conversion. What that means is that from the very beginning of the church it was believed that Jesus was raised from the dead and that He appeared to those mentioned in the passage.
Now while many scholars maintain that we can't know who the writers of the Gospels were, there are scholars who still hold to the belief that the early church held, that the four Gospels were written by the men whose names have been attached to them. Which means then that the Gospels of Matthew and John were written by eyewitnesses to Jesus' ministry, Mark got his information from Peter, and Luke, from eyewitnesses.
Your unsupported claim carries no weight.
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