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Where did Jesus first appear to the eleven disciples after the resurrection?
Matthew's appointed meeting is in Galilee, while Luke locates a group appearance in Jerusalem and John places one behind closed doors.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Different resurrection meeting settings are not identified as the same exclusive first appearance, and Matthew's supplied verse stops before an appearance occurs.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Matthew sends the eleven to a mountain in Galilee
Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
Matthew 28:16
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Matthew 28
Other appearances occur at a meal or a Jerusalem gathering
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
Mark 16:14
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Mark 16