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Luke -- Errors 458-464
#458
Luke 23: (KJV)
45 “And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent
in the midst.”
Compare to Mark 15: (KJV)
37 “And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.”
Luke’s veil breaks before Jesus dies while Mark’s veil breaks
after Jesus dies. Personally, I hate it when they keep making curtain
calls after the show is over.
# 459
Luke 23: (KJV)
46 “And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father,
into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the
ghost.”
Compare to Mark 15: (KJV)
34 “And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me?
35 And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he
calleth Elias.
36 And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed,
and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will
come to take him down.
37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.”
Luke and Mark’s Jesuses have different final words.
# 460
Luke 23: (KJV)
54 “And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.”
Compare to Mark 15: (KJV)
42 “And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation,
that is, the day before the sabbath,”
At the same points in the narratives Luke’s Sabbath has started while
Mark’s has not. Perhaps their related crucifixion’s took place
in different time zones.
# 461
Luke 24: (KJV)
4 “And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout,
behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:”
Compare to Mark 16: (KJV)
5 “And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting
on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.”
Luke’s women saw men while Mark’s women saw a man.
# 462
Luke 24: (KJV)
4 “And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout,
behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they
said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he
was yet in Galilee,”
Compare to Mark 16: (KJV)
5 “And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting
on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth,
which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where
they laid him.
7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you
into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.”
Mark’s women are instructed to look forward to Galilee to find Jesus.
Luke, copying from Mark, felt she had to change “Mark” at this
point because in Mark’s version no one ever saw Jesus again and that
was bad for business. So Luke kept the Galilee reference, trying to save
as much of Mark as possible, but used it to instruct the women to look
back to what Jesus had said at Galilee and remove the instruction to meet
Jesus in Galilee. The author of Luke probably wondered why the hell the
author of Mark had the women instructed to return to Galilee anyway since
that was where Jesus came from and not where he should be going to (Jerusalem).
# 463
Luke 24: (KJV)
9 “And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things
unto the eleven, and to all the rest.”
Compare to Matthew 28: (KJV)
8 “And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and
great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
9 And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying,
All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.”
Luke’s women go and tell the disciples while Matthew’s women
are interrupted by a resurrected Jesus before they can tell the disciples.
Apologists claim this was just an unimportant detail omitted by Luke.
The problem Luke and Matthew have at this point in the narrative is there
is no Mark to follow since Mark wrote that the women stifled themselves.
Mark is more believable as it’s just like women to gossip about every
little thing but then not tell you about something really important.
# 464
Luke 24: (KJV)
10 “It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James,
and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the
apostles.”
Compare to Mark 16: (KJV)
1 “And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the
mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might
come and anoint him.
2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto
the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from
the door of the sepulchre?
4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it
was very great.
5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the
right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.”
“Luke” had at least five women visit the tomb while “Mark”
had two. So in summary we have unknown authors write that different witnesses
told and didn’t tell that they didn’t see Jesus do the impossible.