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).

Jesus Walks on Water


Again a well known miracle this one takes place right after the feeding of the 5000 (Matthew and Mark make sure that we know this) The disciples leave by boat, without Jesus as he was too busy praying. Which to me seems a little weird, unless he told them to do so, you'd think you wouldn't leave your illustrious leader behind on the other side of the lake. Anyhow they get a ways across and are in trouble again from a storm (they need to borrow some more storm worthy boats I think) then Jesus turns up walking on the water. They all freak out (as would I!) and Jesus tells them to chill. Peter then says

"Lord, if it's really you, tell me to come to you by walking on water."

which Jesus lets him do. Peter starts off okay but then gets the colly-wobbles and starts to sink Jesus reaches down and tells him,

"You don't have much faith, Why did you doubt me?"

and puts him back in the boat. The storm then stops and the disciples get down and worship him. Peter seems to be particularly good at saying one thing and then his actions do something else.

posted by Tim @ 4/06/2004 08:29:00 AM

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