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Default Re: The Story of Easter - 03-14-2008, 05:28 PM

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Then all the disciples run away. Mark has a part of the story where somehow a young boy wound up naked.

Mark 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:
52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.

Why are Matthew, Luke and John so strangely reticent on the subject of the naked kid?
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Jesus had enough and quit. Then he said his last words/cried out aloud.

Matthew 27:50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

Mark 15:37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.

Luke 23:46 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.

John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
I wonder if He gave up the Holy Ghost? Or would that be an unforgivable sin?
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After that, the Matthew version says that dead corpses of saints left their graves and wandered around Jerusalem. This is surprisingly absent from the other three versions.

Matthew 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Maybe Mark was just worried that if he mentioned dead bodies coming to life AND a naked kid that no-one else said anything about, his testimony would start to seem implausible. Dunno why Luke and John are so quiet about it - maybe they either just didn't notice, or else thought it was such a mundane detail it wasn't worth mentioning.
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There was a great earthquake, because an angel came down from heaven!

Matthew 28:2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

But it was only mentioned in Matthew.
I have to say, between the resurrected corpses and the earthquake, Matthew does seem to have an eye for details that the other three overlook.
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Then in Matthew, Jesus provides the Great Commission, which is closely followed in Mark but with the promise of damnation for unbelievers, and in Luke but it's pretty concise, John's version of it isn't so great.

John 20:23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Hmmm. Good thing there's another three gospels, because trying to found a religion based on John's summaries of Jesus' teachings might prove a little tricky.
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John's story includes the doubting Thomas holes in the hand part and possibly Jesus did some other party tricks, but John doesn't tell us what he did.

John 20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
That John certainly is a tease. I wonder what other signs Jesus did that John just decided not to mention (but did mention the fact that he wasn't mentioning them)? I hope He fought a T-Rex.
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John is not very specific about how Jesus left earth, and hints that jesus stayed around for a while doing all kinds of parlor tricks, including the cast the nets on the other side of the boats thing .

John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
I have to say, I am quite glad to know that I will never need to rely on John's testimony to prove my alibi in a court case. The fellow does seem a little unclear at times.


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