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 Resurrection

This is the passage that means that not only are our sins paid for but that we are born again into a new life in Christ. This doesn't make us perfect (we will still make mistakes) but it does mean that we can now enter heaven, and have the Holy Spirit live in us. All very good stuff. :-)
There are some differences between the accounts, but they all state that the women went to the tomb first, and the men came second, and that it all took place on the third day (Sunday morning). Three of the passages have angels that talk to the women, John (as usual) is the one that differs on this. If you are confused how Sunday morning is the third day it's to do with how the Jewish calendar counts days. A day begins at sunset, so Jesus died on Friday (day one) was still dead on Saturday (day two) and was resurrected on Sunday (day three)

1 Comments:

At September 28, 2004 8:30 AM, Blogger Tim said...

I am so silly If you continue to read John's passage it does talk about Mary and the Angels - my bad I have updated the link to reflect this

 

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