ContradictionsReading order 137Bible context 2 min read
Where did Jesus tell his disciples to go after his resurrection?
Post-resurrection instructions direct the disciples toward Galilee in some accounts and forbid departure from Jerusalem in others.
- 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
- Foundational
- A central claim about origins, salvation, divine justice, or religious authority.
Galilee travel and remaining in Jerusalem oppose each other if concurrent, but the supplied commands lack a complete shared timetable.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
The disciples should go to Galilee to see Jesus
Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
Matthew 28:10
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Matthew 28
But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.
Mark 16:7
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Mark 16