Contradictions in the Bible Surrounding Ressurection Story

• Jesus last words

  • "My god my god why have you foraken me?"

    • Matthew and Mark Psalm 22

  • "Into your hands I commit my spirit"

    • Luke

  • "It is Finished"

    • John

  • "My power, My power, You have forsaken me"

    • Peter - Not actually in the bible. Could be using Power as a Euphimism for God

• When was the stone rolled away

  • In Mark the women worry about who will move the stone for them, as they approach the tomb, the stone was already gone

  • In Matthew, there is a sudden earthquake and flash of light, an angel descends to roll back the stone. The angel tells them "Do not be afraid"

• How Did Judas Die

  • In Matthew he returns his 30 peices of silver and then hangs himself

  • In Acts, Judas buys a field where he falls head first and his intestines spill out

• Where did Jesus meet the disciples?

  • In Mark, This is not described

  • In Matthew, Jesus appears to his disciples on top of the mountain, and delivers the Great Commission

  • In Luke, When the Women discover Jesus's tomb they tell the disciples, but no one believes them. Jesus meets two men on the road to Ameas. They return to Jerusaleum to tell the disciples. Jesus tells them not to leave Jerusaleum until they receive the holy spirit, on pentacost

• The Day of Jesus Death

  • Matthew, Mark, and Luke

    • Jesus and the Disciples eat a meal together

    • In Luke it is made explicit they ate together as was customary on the day of preperation

    • Jesus prays with his disciples and is arrested.

    • At daybreak the next day, he is tried and crucified at noon

  • John

    • Jesus is killed on the day of preparation, before the passover meal.

    • The reader is reminded 3 times that all of this happens on the day of preperation.

• A threat to the Temple - The notion that Jesus will destroy the Jewish temple and rebuild it in 3 days

  • appears twice in Mark

    • Mark indicates that Jesus never said any such thing

  • John

    • States explicitly that Jesus states that the temple would be destroyed and raised in 3 days, but that he was speaking about the body

• The Doubt Traditions

  • In each story where Jesus appears to the disciples, they doubt it. Which is odd because he is standing in front of them.

  • In Acts, Jesus spends 40 days with his disciples proving with many proofs that he had been raised from the dead.

• Zombie Invasion

  • Three gospels describe a series of events the same way upon Jesus death, a darkness and a splitting of the Temple curtain

  • In Mathew, the earth shook, the rocks split, and the zombies came. "Bodies of many holy ones who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs after Jesus' Resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people."

  • The tombs break open on Good Friday when Jesus is crucified. How did the Zombies spend their weekend?

• Blame on the Jewish People

  • Mark

    • Jesus goes into Jerusaleam he goes into the temple and he overturns tables and drives out the money takers. Over the course of the week he is turned into the Roman authority. Pontius and Jewish Leaders share responsibility.

  • In Matthew 27:25

    • Pilate does not believe that Jesus has not done anything wrong, Pilate washes his hands of Jesus blood, and the entire Jewish crowd cries out to Crucify Jesus

  • In Luke

    • Pilate decleares Jesus innocent 3 times, King Herod declears him innocent, but the Jewish people insist he be crucified.

  • In John

    • Pilate declares Jesus innocent 3 times. The Jewish priests are the ones who actually crucify Jesus.

• Is the Ascension in the Gospels

  • Luke includes the show that Jesus was taken up to heaven

  • The rest of the Gospels do not

• Was Jesus stabbed to death

  • In Matthew describes Jesus stabbed with a Roman spear as he is about to die.

  • In John, Jesus side is stabbed in the side with the spear ater his death.

• Father Forgive Them

  • In Luke "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do"