Contradictions
Parallel accounts (distinct sources)
Questions where the tension is one of Parallel accounts (distinct sources) — 70 in all.
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These marks echo where critical scholarship tends to land on each question — not GEBible’s own ruling.
Seen as a contradiction
Genuinely disputed
Seen as reconciled
Leans toward a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Leans toward a genuine contradiction
The tension: Matthew, Mark, and Luke all give Joseph of Arimathea sole credit for taking Jesus down, wrapping the body in linen, and laying it in the tomb.
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Leans toward a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Leans toward a genuine contradiction
The tension: Matthew 28:2 has an angel of the Lord descend from heaven, roll back the stone, and sit on it — a single angelic figure.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Matthew 28:8 has the women run from the tomb 'with fear and great joy' to bring the disciples word.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Matthew 28:9 has Mary and the other Mary meet the risen Jesus, grab his feet, and worship him — no confusion, instant recognition.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Matthew 28:10 and Mark 16:7 have Jesus (or his angelic messenger) tell the disciples to head north to Galilee — that's where they'll see him.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Matthew 28:9 says the first appearance was to the two Marys together.
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Leans toward a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Leans toward a genuine contradiction
The tension: John 20:24 says Thomas was absent when Jesus first appeared to the group, so with Judas already dead (Matthew 27:5) the count is ten.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Matthew 28:16 says the eleven met Jesus on a mountain in Galilee — a multi-day journey from the tomb.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Mark 1:12-13 says the Spirit immediately drove Jesus into the wilderness for forty days of temptation right after his baptism.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: All three Synoptics tell the same Jericho healing story, but they can't agree on where Jesus was standing when he did it.
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Leans toward a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Leans toward a genuine contradiction
The tension: Matthew 26:74, Luke 22:60, and John 18:27 all have the cock crow after Peter's third denial.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Luke 24:2, Mark 16:3-4, and John 20:1 all describe the women arriving to find the stone already rolled away from the entrance.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Mark 16:5 has the women enter the tomb and find 'a young man sitting on the right side.' John 20:12 has Mary Magdalene see 'two angels in white sitting' — one…
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Matthew 28:2 places the angel outside the tomb, having descended from heaven, rolled the stone back, and seated himself upon it.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Luke 24:33-34 has the two Emmaus disciples return to Jerusalem and find the eleven already saying 'The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon' — mean…
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Leans toward a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Leans toward a genuine contradiction
The tension: John 12:1-3 names Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, anointing Jesus' feet at Bethany six days before Passover.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
The tension: Matthew 20:29-30 and Mark 10:46 say Jesus healed blind men as he was departing Jericho.
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Leans toward reconciliation
Scholarly consensus: Leans toward reconciliation
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.
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Leans toward a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Leans toward a genuine contradiction
The tension: Luke 24:37 has the disciples terrified and affrighted, supposing they had seen a spirit when Jesus appeared.
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Genuinely disputed among scholars
Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
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…
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Leans toward a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Leans toward a genuine contradiction
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.
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Leans toward reconciliation
Scholarly consensus: Leans toward reconciliation
The tension: Matthew 15:22 identifies the woman who asked Jesus to exorcise her daughter as "a woman of Canaan" (gyne Chananaia).
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