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).

Peters Declaration about Jesus


This is the passage where Jesus asks the disciples who the people think he is, and they reply

"some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets."

Jesus then asks them who they think he is. Before anyone else gets a chance Peter jumps in (Typical Peter ;-)) and says that He is the son of God, and Messiah. Jesus commends him and then warns all of them to not tell anyone else who he was.
Why the warning you may ask - well my opinion is that he needed things to go according to His timing, and having himself proclaimed openly as the Christ would just force things to be rushed along, as the Pharisees would get the excuse that they needed to reel him in.

posted by Tim @ 5/17/2004 07:45:00 AM

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