Contradiction claim
Where were the disciples instructed to encounter the risen Jesus?
Matthew reports an instruction to go into Galilee, and the eleven going there to a mountain. Luke reports an instruction to remain in Jerusalem until endued with power, and Acts repeats the command not to depart from Jerusalem.
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TextThe primary text, as seeded. Nothing here is summarised or paraphrased.
Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
Why they appear to conflict
AnalysisEach side states a proposition attributable to its passages. A claim is not assumed to have exactly two sides.
Matthew
The disciples were told to go into Galilee, and they went there.
Galilee
Matthew 28:10 · Matthew 28:16
Luke and Acts
The disciples were told to stay in Jerusalem until they received power.
Jerusalem
Luke 24:49 · Acts 1:4
Formal analysis
AnalysisA contradiction requires a proposition and its incompatible counterpart under materially equivalent conditions. Every dimension below must hold for the formal test to succeed.
No formal analysis has been recorded for this claim yet. Until one exists, the classification cannot be stronger than a descriptive category.
Analytical questions
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- Do the instructions govern the same period, or successive periods?
- Does Luke’s account compress a longer interval into a single scene?
- Is the Galilee instruction about an appearance and the Jerusalem instruction about waiting for the Spirit?
- Does Acts 1:3 establish an interval long enough to accommodate both?
Hebrew / Greek relevance
LanguageNo original-language dependency has been recorded for this claim.
Textual variants
ManuscriptA variant is a transmission phenomenon, never in itself a logical contradiction.
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Manuscript evidence
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Narrator and speaker analysis
AnalysisWhat the narration establishes, distinguished from what would additionally establish that the reported event occurred.
No narrator or speaker analysis has been recorded for these passages yet.
Proposed harmonisations
InterpretationEach proposal records the premises it must supply that the text does not state. Premises are never injected silently.
Successive instructions over an interval
A Galilee appearance occurred first, and the Jerusalem instruction governed the days immediately before Pentecost.
Premises this proposal must supply
- contextualLuke compresses the post-resurrection period into a continuous-seeming narrative.
Editorial Harmonisation Cost Heuristic
2 / 5 — Ordinary contextual inference
Acts, by the same author as Luke, explicitly describes an extended post-resurrection period, which gives the compression reading contextual support within the same corpus.
Reviewed by CodexTrace Editorial Board on 2026-09-07. This is an editorial heuristic, not an objective measurement.
Critical responses
InterpretationArguments that the proposed reconciliations do not succeed, treated structurally the same way as the harmonisations.
No critical response has been recorded for this claim yet.
Analytical classification
Analysis- Classification
- Narrative divergence
- What it means
- Accounts of the same episode differ in detail, participants, or emphasis.
- Requires formal analysis
- No
- Review status
- reviewed
- Source collections
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Sources
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