ContradictionsReading order 215Bible context 2 min read
Did the eleven disciples believe the two men who claimed to see Jesus?
Luke depicts an assembled group already affirming resurrection, whereas Mark says the group disbelieves the returning pair.
- Textual conflict
- Interpretive tension
- The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Luke's group already affirms resurrection while Mark's rejects the pair's report, but belief in Simon's appearance is not expressly belief in that distinct report.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Luke's gathered disciples already proclaim that Jesus has risen
And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
Luke 24:33-34
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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Mark's remaining disciples reject the two travelers' report
After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.
Mark 16:12-13
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)