ContradictionsReading order 457Bible context 3 min read
How should heathens and publicans be treated?
Jesus' fellowship with tax collectors contrasts with a disciplinary saying that uses their status to mark an offender's exclusion.
- 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.
Outsider status in church discipline does not itself prohibit the meals with outsiders that Jesus practices.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Jesus welcomes tax collectors into his company
And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him. And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
Mark 2:15-16
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
Matthew 9:10-11
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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