ContradictionsReading order 510Bible context 2 min read
Where did the devils ask not to go?
The Legion exchange gives different destinations as the focus of the spirits' plea.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
Avoiding expulsion from the country and avoiding the deep are compatible wishes, despite the different reported requests in the Legion encounter.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
The spirits ask not to leave the country
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
Mark 5:9-10
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Mark 5
The spirits ask not to be sent into the deep
And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him. And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
Luke 8:30-31
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Luke 8