This is a good question for those who have not studied all the accounts, but it is easy to answer. The story about the men possessed by demons (demoniacs) in the region of Gadarenes is mentioned in all three synoptic gospels. The gospel of Matthew devotes only 6 verses to it and briefly describes the incident before moving on to the miracle where Jesus…
How do Luke 2:39 and Matthew 2:13 reconcile? Luke says Joseph and Mary went to Galilee, and Matthew says they went to Egypt after Jesus' birth. Let’s see what the Bible has to say: On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived. When the time…
The book of Acts records Paul’s encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. However, Bible critics point out that this event is described differently in a couple of accounts in the book of Acts. In Acts 22:9 when Paul was defending himself before the Jews in Jerusalem, he said “those who were with me indeed saw the light but did not hear the…
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is pivotal to the Christian faith. Without the Resurrection, Jesus was a phenomenal teacher who lied about being God and was sentenced to an excruciating death for this lie. New Testament textual critics tend to focus a lot of energy on refuting the claim that Jesus physically rose from the dead. One of those theories is called ‘The Substitution…
