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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.
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 m…
…val, 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 rep…
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.
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.
…Gittite — the King James Version supplies the words "the brother of" in italics, marking them as not present in the Hebrew. 1 Chronicles 20:5 reports that Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath.
2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles both introduce the first-named member of David’s mighty men and both report a number of men killed with a spear on a single occasion. The figures differ: eight hundred in Samuel, three hundred i…
Kings and Chronicles both give Ahaziah’s age at accession and both give the same reign length of one year, but the ages differ by twenty years: twenty-two in 2 Kings, forty-two in 2 Chronicles. The forty-two figure would…
Kings gives Jehoiachin’s age at accession as eighteen and his reign as three months; Chronicles gives eight and three months and ten days. The reign lengths are close but not identical, and the ages differ by ten years.
Kings reports forty thousand stalls of horses for Solomon’s chariots; Chronicles reports four thousand stalls for horses and chariots. Both give the same figure of twelve thousand horsemen.
Kings and Chronicles describe the same bronze basin in the temple with nearly identical wording, including the same handbreadth thickness and lily-work brim, but give different capacities: two thousand baths in Kings, th…
…Joseph’s father, the two genealogies differ in direction, in starting and ending points, in structure, and across most of the names between David and Joseph. This record treats the comparison as a whole rather than any…