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).

Finding out you're gonna be a loser

In this passage Jesus predicts that Peter will betray him and disown Him 3 times the gospels differ over the exact number of times that the cock will crow - but does it really matter? Either 3 or 1 crows the net effect it that Peter will be kicking himself by morning. In the Luke passage Jesus tells them they need to arm themselves (kinda blows away the Christians are pacifists thing). He does however say that 2 (swords) are enough - if you want to read between the lines 16.6% of us should therefore be armed. Personally though thinking like that is just silly. I personally believe that if God wants you to know something in His word he will spell it out for you - and if it's really important he'll repeat it a few times too. All that "secrets of the Bible code" stuff, is pointless as far as I am concerned.

posted by Tim @ 8/16/2004 01:35:00 PM

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