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1 | reconcile Mark 6:8 and Luke 9:3 | Mark 6:8 | ebrain | 188604 | ||
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2 | reconcile Mark 6:8 and Luke 9:3 | Mark 6:8 | ebrain | 188605 | ||
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3 | reconcile Mark 6:8 and Luke 9:3 | Mark 6:8 | Morant61 | 188607 | ||
Greetings Ebrain! In this example of a 'contradiction', you again are forcing 20th century standards on a 1st century author. The 'quotation' in Matthew is actually a combination of Jeremiah and Zechariah. In our day, we would insist upon naming both sources, but in the first century, naming the 'major' prophet alone would have been sufficient. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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4 | reconcile Mark 6:8 and Luke 9:3 | Mark 6:8 | ebrain | 188629 | ||
Hi Tim. Please show me the verses in Jeremiah, to which Matthew is referring, in Mat 26:15, Matt 27:3, and Matt 27:9 which I quoted. Thank you. Edwin. |
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5 | reconcile Mark 6:8 and Luke 9:3 | Mark 6:8 | Morant61 | 188667 | ||
Greetings Edwin! Sorry for the delay! I recently changed my e-mail address and just realized that I had not updated it on the forum. :-) The only verse which mentions Jeremiah is Mt. 27:9. The 30 pieces of silver is obviously found in Zech. 11:12-13. But, the themes of 'field', 'potter', and 'silver' are also found in Jeremiah. Here is how the Bible Knowledge Commentary explains it: ************* Matthew viewed these events as the fulfillment of a prophecy of Jeremiah. But the prophecy Matthew quoted was primarily from Zechariah, not Jeremiah. There is a close resemblance between Matthew 27:9-10 and Zechariah 11:12-13. But there are also similarities between Matthew’s words and the ideas in Jeremiah 19:1, 4, 6, 11. Why then did Matthew refer only to Jeremiah? The solution to this problem is probably that Matthew had both prophets in mind but only mentioned the “major” prophet by name. (A similar situation is found in Mark 1:2-3, where Mark mentioned the Prophet Isaiah but quoted directly from both Isaiah and Malachi.) In addition, another explanation is that Jeremiah, in the Babylonian Talmud (Baba Bathra 14b), was placed first among the prophets, and his book represented all the other prophetic books. ************ It was not at all uncommon for Rabbi's to string together passages of Scriptures, which we would never put together, on the basis of a key word. For an excellent NT example of this, read Rom. 9 where Paul strings together OT quotes based on the words 'seed' and 'people'. My main point was simply that it is not a contradiction to cite in the manner that was common in the 1st century. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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