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The account of the woman taken in adultery is absent from part of the manuscript tradition, and where present it appears at more than one location in the Gospels. Its position and its presence both vary.
Genesis 6:19-20 instructs Noah to bring two of every sort of living thing. Genesis 7:2-3 instructs him to take clean beasts by sevens and unclean by twos, and fowls by sevens. The two instructions stand within a few vers…
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…
1 Samuel narrates David killing the Philistine champion. 2 Samuel 21:19 reports that Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, slew Goliath the Gittite — the King James Version supplies the words "the brother of"…
…ree plus others; John names Mary Magdalene alone and reports the stone already taken away.
The resurrection accounts, their differences in participants, timing and location, and the textual questions bearing on them.
…h day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.