The tension: Luke 23:43 has Jesus promise the criminal on the cross, "To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." John 20:17 has the resurrected Jesus tell Mary Magdalene, "…
The tension: John 19:29-30 has Jesus receive the vinegar from the sponge and then declare "It is finished." Mark 15:23 has Jesus refuse the wine mingled with myrrh.
The tension: Luke 23:43 has Jesus promise the repentant criminal that they will be together in paradise that very day, implying Jesus went to paradise.
The tension: John 20:17 has Jesus tell Mary Magdalene, "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father." Matthew 28:9 has the women hold Jesus by the feet and worship…
The tension: John 5:22, John 5:26-27, John 9:39, Acts 17:31, 2 Corinthians 5:10, and Revelation 19:11 say Jesus judges everyone, with the Father committing all judgment to…
The tension: John 5:31 has Jesus say, "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true." John 8:14 and 8:18 have Jesus say, "Though I bear record of myself, yet my reco…
The tension: Mark 8:22-25 has Jesus heal a blind man at Bethsaida by spitting directly on his eyes and laying hands on him — twice, because the first attempt only half-work…
The tension: Matthew 28:1-9 has the women — including Mary Magdalene — leave the empty tomb with "fear and great joy," meet Jesus on the way, grab his feet, and worship.
The tension: Acts 1:1-2 opens with Luke telling Theophilus that his "former treatise" (the Gospel of Luke) covered "all that Jesus began both to do and teach" up to the asc…
The tension: Matthew 27:5 has Judas throw the thirty pieces of silver down in the temple and then hang himself; the priests use the money to buy the Potter's Field.
The tension: Matthew 28:19 has the risen Jesus command baptism "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" — a Trinitarian formula.
