Parallel Passage

As you may have known I have been doing a study in the gospels comparing the different versions presented by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. In doing this I have discovered that they kinda jump around a bit and aren't always chronologically identical.

This has added to the time it takes me to study, and to be honest without the help of the Gospelcom bible and it's search tool I wouldn't have been able to stick with it as easily.

So just in case you are interested I decided to put together some of the passages as I go along to make it easier for you to try it for yourself.

One thing you will notice is that due to John's Gospel focusing more on statements and relationships between Jesus and His disciples, events that occur are often only mentioned in the first three Gospels and are not included in John.

Finally if you don't like the translation that I used (the New Living Translation) then after you have gone to the page you can use "see this passage in" pull down box at the top of the page, change it to the translation of your choice, and click go. NIV - New International Version, or KJV - King James Version, are probably two that are the most popular or well known. Do bear in mind that as this is an American website though it will have spelling mistakes (honour, and colour for example).

The Baptism of Jesus

This is the passage where Jesus is baptised and then the Spirit of God descended on him in the form of a dove. God then speaks and announces that Jesus is his son - so if John the Baptist wasn't enough to convince you hopefully the voice of God speaking from the sky is ;-). A point of interest is that in John, John the Baptist says that he didn't know that Jesus was the one until the dove came. Remember they were "cousins", and probably knew each other reasonably well. God had independently sent John out to do His work, and so John must have found it slightly amusing that all this time he had known the saviour of the world, without knowing that he was the saviour of the world!

posted by Tim @ 11/24/2003 09:06:00 AM

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