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).

A Discussion about Fasting



This is the passage where John's disciples ask Jesus why his disciples aren't fasting, Jesus tells them that the guests at a party would fast if the groom was there (which makes sense to me), but he then goes on to use 2 other parables which make no sense to most people, unless they have studied it before. These are the new wine in old wine skins, and the new patch on an old cloak. Most people that I know have no direct experience of these situations (wine comes in bottles not skins, and few people that I know still patch their clothes, and if they do they probably use preshrunk material, and aren't going to worry about the patch pulling away from the original garment. I asked about this one last year

posted by Tim @ 1/24/2004 08:17:00 AM

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