ContradictionsReading order 486Bible context 2 min read
Does the gospel of Luke contain everything that Jesus did?
Acts uses comprehensive language for its earlier narrative, while John emphasizes the impossibility of writing every deed down.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Supporting
- A supporting event, teaching, or biographical claim.
An account concerning all Jesus began to do need not claim exhaustive event-by-event coverage, and John's immeasurable books language is rhetorical.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Acts describes the earlier account as covering all Jesus began to do
The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
Acts 1:1-2
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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John says an exhaustive record would exceed the world's capacity
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
John 21:25
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)