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).

Even the best can fail

Here is Peter's denial of Jesus, although there is discussion about how many times the cock crows we do know for sure that there were 3 denials and that directly following the 3rd the cock crowd. This of course causes Peter to breakdown as he realises that he has just done the one thing he promised Jesus that he would never do. At least he recognises this failure and shows regret for it - many of us don't even acknowledge failure let alone accept the failure as ours. This however was probably the best thing to ever increase Peters faith and deteremination, as now that he has failed he is determined not to let it happen again.

posted by Tim @ 9/13/2004 02:42:00 PM

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