Subject: How do these accounts reconcile? |
Bible Note: Dear John, Pondered what you said here for about a while I guess. Here is what I was able to try to peice together; 2)On context; Angels, Mathew has one angel sitting on a stone outside the tomb, Mark has one angel sitting to the right in the tomb, Luke and John have two angels inside the tomb. There may have been three angels. There were perhaps two or three angels around at first when the women came one was standing on the stone, they didn't see the other one, or ones inside the tomb. The writers only metioned the angel who spoke in some accounts. When Peter and John came they saw the two angels inside and maybe one was hanging out side and had moved off the stone and stood by the door. 3)On context; Mary sees Jesus first at the tomb and then goes and tells the disciples immediately in John, Mary sees Jesus first after leaving the tomb in Mark, The disciples see Jesus first at the place where they were away from the tomb in Mathew, the two on the road to Emmaus are the first to see Jesus in Luke. Perhaps Mary saw Jesus twice, once at the tomb and once on the way back to the disciples. Every account has someone different seeing Jesus first or in a differnt place because they were writing telling the story from a different point of view. 4)On context; Mary goes alone in John, Mary goes with the other Mary in Mathew, Mary goes with three women in Mark, Mary goes with a group of women more than three in Luke. All the women were there it's just that some writers only mention the woman who does the speaking and others simply only mention some of them. God Bless, the hat lady |