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).

The Great Commission

These passages cover Jesus turning up with all the apostles (and in some cases later on specifically for Thomas) and then breathing the Holy spirit on them and sending them out to preach the good news about the resurrection. The things that are important are:

  • Jesus is raised (DUH).
  • Jesus isn't a ghost - he is physically there.
  • the Holy spirit is liberally and permanently handed out to all believers (this rocks!)
  • His last command is to go out and make believers to all nations.

posted by Tim @ 9/28/2004 08:43:00 AM

3 Comments:

At November 02, 2004 2:48 PM, Blogger Tim said...

thanks for the comment How - nice to know that someone is reading this apart from me ;-)

 
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