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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
There is a more clear, more significant discrepancy in the bible concerning the crucifixion and that is that John places Jesus as having died on the day BEFORE the Passover feast and the others place him dying the day of. In Mark, Matthew, and Luke, Jesus eats a Passover meal before he dies. However, he does not do so in John - the last supper is eaten before Passover begins. In John, the process of Jesus crucifixion begins at noon on the day of preparation for Passover - the time when the Jewish priests begin slaughtering the lambs for passover, creating an effective metaphor in the story. This discrepancy is only really a problem if one insist that the bible is literally true though. Looking at it from a more literary standpiont, the choice of John to have Jesus crucified while the passover lambs where also being slaughtered fits quite well with the overall portrayal he makes of Jesus and his meaning.
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Totally true. Another thing to add is that John was written some 100+ years after the events and 50+ years after the others. Quibbling over little things like dates are pointless because the things in the Bible are not there to record what happened like a newspaper. If you want that, simply go find the Roman records of the Crucifixion and figure out the date there, taking into accountthe recentering of the Gregorian Calendar of course. Want another Date discrepancy, how about the time between the Annunciation and Christmas, now there's one that should really throw you for a loop, unless you know when the actual Birth was, which then makes a lot more sense.
But the idea that the Bible isn't pure fact shocks people, many of which are the same people that go nuts about "discovering" the "lost gospels." Of which there are tons, most of which are crap, none of which are believed to be "inspired" by the Church, be it Catholic, Anglican, or Orthodox. The problem also permeates the so-called religious "leaders" that protest Dan Browne on the grounds that Jesus didn't have kid's in the Bible.