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1 | Did Jesus purify the temple twice? | John 2:15 | Huron | 126192 | ||
Ray, Thanks for the insight. That is another plausible explanation. Do you know of any other examples in John where he departs from the synoptics in similar fashion? Huron |
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2 | Did Jesus purify the temple twice? | John 2:15 | Theo-Minor | 126202 | ||
I've had to reconcile myself to that one as well. Matthew, Mark, and Luke tell of the overturning of the tables and such as being during his triumphant entry into Jerusalem. John says it was the year before or so. The best solution I've found is similar to Ray's. John's Gospel, according to some scholars, is dated to the 90's AD. If the events took place in the 30's AD, that's a 60 year gap. In short, John was jotting down at the age 70 or 80 what he experienced at the age of 15 or 20. There are some other juicy ones you might want to wrap your brain around. Take a look at the woman that washes Jesus' feet with tears, etc. Luke's version is quite different. Then there's the "going back to Nazareth" scene that happens in the beginning of the ministry in one gospel, but towards the middle of another. In one case, he's just getting started. In the other, he's already well established and performing miracles in Nazareth. So did he go twice? The best way to look at this is to view it as a car crash. The four witnesses writing the testimony of the gospel are all seeing the same accident, but from different corners of the intersection. Matthew heard the scream of the tires, smelled the burnt rubber, and noticed a rock in the road that caused the driver to swerve and have an accident. Mark saw the car swerve, but never saw the rock. He too heard the scream of the tires, but from his corner he couldn't smell the burnt rubber. But what Mark saw that Matthew didn't was the look of panic on the driver's face as they realized they were about to wreck. John was in the corner store. He heard the tires scream, but he didn't smell the burnt rubber. He didn't see the panic on the driver's face. He didn't see the swerve or the rock in the road. But John was the first one to reach the car when he came out of the store. He ran straighaway to the car and got to hear the driver's last words before he died. Standing next to the car, he could then smell the burnt rubber, and through the driver's own account of things before he died, John learned of the rock in the road, the swerve to avoid it, and the panic the driver felt when he saw that he was bearing down on a passing vehicle. One thing all three of them saw were the smashed cars. Some of them saw it happen. Others weren't around. (remember that the sheep scattered) But they all saw the mess. They all saw the body of the one person being toted away. Then Luke arived on the scene and asked some detailed questions about what happened and did the best he could to establish some order and chronology of events, starting with the rock in the road that Matthew saw and John could verify by the driver's own words. It next moved on to the swerve that John didn't see but could relate according to the driver's words. Matthew and Mark could both testify to it directly. Then to the unique material that the driver was panicked, based on what Mark saw on the driver's face. Then he recorded the crash itself as seen by Matthew and Mark, with the addition of what audible details and testimonial details from the driver John could provide. Finally, he concludes with the fact that there is a crash. The harmony of the gospels is very akin to this in my estimation. Each has unique material not found in the others, and the details of matching scenarios are often different. This thing actually makes them credible. If they all matched perfectly, they would be suspicious of having been copied from one another. Instead, we have corroborating accounts from four different perspectives. In a court of law, this would establish the event as a fact. I hope this gives you food for thought. Theo-Minor |
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3 | Did Jesus purify the temple twice? | John 2:15 | Huron | 126528 | ||
Good stuff, especially the last paragraph! Thanks! Huron |
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