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 childhood of Jesus

Jesus has quite an active initial childhood what with the escape to Egypt and then the return to Nazareth. This all happened when he was pretty young though. The only record that we have of Jesus doing something as a child is in Luke when he is 12 years old in the temple at the Passover festival. This is when he schools the teachers of the law who are "amazed at his understanding", he also gets busted by his parents for getting them worried sick about his whereabouts. One thing that might be worth noting is that Joseph is still alive at this point, so sometime between Jesus being 12 and 30 he dies, as he's not around during the time of Jesus's ministry.

posted by Tim @ 11/16/2003 09:13:00 AM

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