![]() ![]() ![]() So how should we understand this so-called discrepancy? If you look at the Bible in a wooden fashion, this contradiction does seem to be absurd on the face of it. Did Jesus or John have a painfully short attention span? Either Jesus or John were having a ‘brain fart’. ![]() ![]() Either Jesus had a very short attention span or there is something strange going on with the sources for these chapters, creating an odd kind of disconnect. And then, a few minutes later, at the same meal, Jesus upbraids his disciples, saying, “Now I am going to the one who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’” (John 16:5). In John 13:36, Peter says to Jesus, “Lord, where are you going?” A few verses later Thomas says, “Lord, we do not know where you are going” (John 14:5). One of my favorite apparent discrepancies-I read John for years without realizing how strange this one is-comes in Jesus’ “Farewell Discourse,” the last address that Jesus delivers to his disciples, at his last meal with them, which takes up all of chapters 13 to 17 in the Gospel according to John. For example, agnostic NT scholar Bart Ehrman points out one of his favorite Bible contradictions in his book best-selling book, Jesus, Interrupted. And these same skeptics say that some of these contradictions are downright absurd. Skeptics say that the gospels are riddled with contradictions and therefore are not reliable historical sources. ![]()
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