Which came first: the calling of Peter and Andrew or the imprisonment of John the Baptist?
Matthew and Mark place the fishermen's call after John's arrest, while John gives Andrew and Peter an earlier encounter with Jesus.
- Textual conflict
- Weak tension
- The alleged conflict needs substantial assumptions, such as treating an omission as a denial or figurative language as literal.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Andrew's earlier introduction of Peter need not be the same event as the later lakeside summons after John's arrest.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
The lakeside call follows John's imprisonment
Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;
And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.