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Each record is a claim that passages conflict — recorded so it can be examined, not endorsed. Records carry propositions, an editorial classification, and, where reviewed, a formal analysis and the premises any harmonisation must supply.
30 claims in codextrace_research. There is no single objective count — why not.
Matthew reports that Judas threw down the silver, departed, and hanged himself. Acts reports that he fell headlong, burst open, and his bowels gushed out. The two accounts also differ on who acquired the field and how it got its name.
Matthew reports that the chief priests took counsel and bought the potter’s field with the returned silver, to bury strangers. Acts says that Judas himself purchased a field with the reward of iniquity.
All three Synoptic Gospels report that Simon of Cyrene was compelled to carry the cross. John says that Jesus went out bearing his cross. Neither statement is framed as excluding the other.
The four accounts name different women, different times of arrival, and different figures encountered at the tomb. Matthew names two women; Mark names three; Luke refers to the women who had come from Galilee and later names three plus others; John names Mary Magdalene alone and reports the stone already taken away.
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.
Mark introduces the final meal on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover was killed. John says that on the morning of the trial those who brought Jesus to the judgment hall avoided defilement so that they might eat the Passover, and calls the day of the crucifixion the preparation. The two framings place the meal and the death differently relative to the Passover.
Mark states that it was the third hour when they crucified him. John places Pilate’s presentation of Jesus at about the sixth hour on the day of preparation, which is before the crucifixion in John’s sequence.
John places the temple cleansing early in the narrative, at a Passover near the beginning of Jesus’ public activity. The Synoptic Gospels place it in the final week, after the entry into Jerusalem.
Acts 9:7 says the men who journeyed with Paul stood speechless, hearing a voice but seeing no one. Acts 22:9 says they saw the light and were afraid, but did not hear the voice of him who spoke. Both statements appear in the same book.
Romans 3:28 concludes that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. James 2:24 states that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. The two sentences use the same three key terms and reach opposite-sounding conclusions.