DAY FOUR!
CONTRADICTION 4
All the accounts of the last week leading to the crucidixion contradict each other in different ways, by exclusion, by difference, or absolutely.
Only the 'teller and/or author' of G-Mark had been a witness during the last week with Jesus.
But the other accounts? Contradictions!
Although G-John, G-Matthew and G-Luke are full of interesting accounts, those authors were never with Jesus, ever, and so had no personal experience about what happened. Whereas G-Mark is able to describe the last week at Jerusalem with details that the other apostles would surely have mentioned if they had experienced them all. And John's account is mostly untrue, imo.
And a (separate) very personal account could help to show that Mark's author was actually at the arrest of Jesus.
My exhibits today are from G-Mark, and any who would claim last-week accuracy from the other gospels might like to show their exhibit-verses in support of their claim?
Exhibits:-
Gospel of Mark
Day 1
{11:1} And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, .......
{11:11} And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
Day Two
The Demonstration.
{11:15} And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went
into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and
bought in the temple,
The Picket line
{11:16} And would not suffer that any man should carry
[any] vessel through the temple.
{11:19} And when even was come, he went out of the city.
Day three
{11:20} And in the morning,
11:27} And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was
walking in the temple,
{12:41} And Jesus sat over against the treasury,
{13:1} And as he went out of the temple,
{13:3} And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over
against the temple,
Day four
{14:1} After two days was [the feast of] the passover, and
of unleavened bread:
{14:3} And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the
leper, as he sat at meat,
Day five
{14:13} And he sendeth forth two of his
disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city,
{14:17} And in the evening he cometh
with the twelve.
{14:26} And when they had sung an hymn, they went out
into the mount of Olives.
14:32} And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane:
Day 6
{15:1} And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried [him] away, and delivered [him] to Pilate.
...which ended with the crucifixion
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Separate from the above, there was a short passage which describes a very personal experience that would only ever have been remembered by the writer and some younger Temple officials. The Temple officials would not have passed on this experience because they failed, and because they had no wish to pass on the incident. Only the person who mentioned this would have held it in mind for all time..... the author of Mark:-
Mark {14:50} And they all forsook him, and fled. {14:51} And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about [his] naked [body;] and the young men laid hold on him: {14:52} And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
........... a lucky escape indeed!
P.S.
Previously
Contradiction 1 Post 1
Contradiction 2 Post 26
Contradiction 3 Post 77