{"id":21830,"date":"2024-11-28T14:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=21830"},"modified":"2024-11-28T14:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T19:23:17","slug":"mark-1526-why-is-the-inscription-on-the-cross-different-in-all-the-gospels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/mark-1526-why-is-the-inscription-on-the-cross-different-in-all-the-gospels\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark 15:26 &#8211; Why is the inscription on the cross different in all the Gospels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> The wording of the accusation above Christ\u2019s head on the cross is rendered differently in each Gospel account.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nMatthew: \u201cThis is Jesus the king of the Jews\u201d (27:37).<\/p>\n<p>Mark: \u201cThe king of the Jews\u201d (15:26).<\/p>\n<p>Luke: \u201cThis is the king of the Jews\u201d (23:38).<\/p>\n<p>John: \u201cJesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews\u201d (19:19).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong> While there is a difference in what is omitted, the important phrase, \u201cthe king of the Jews,\u201d is identical in all four Gospels. The differences can be accounted for in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>First, John 19:20 says, \u201cThen many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.\u201d So then, there are at least three different languages in which the sign above Christ\u2019s head was written. Some of the differences may come from it being rendered in different languages.<\/p>\n<p>Further, it is possible that each Gospel only gives part of the complete statement as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Matthew: \u201cThis is Jesus [of Nazareth] the king of the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark: \u201c[This is Jesus of Nazareth] the king of the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luke: \u201cThis is [Jesus of Nazareth] the king of the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John: \u201c[This is] Jesus of Nazareth the king of the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the whole statement may have read \u201cThis is Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews.\u201d In this case, each Gospel is giving the essential part (\u201cthe king of the Jews\u201d), but no Gospel is giving the whole inscription. But neither is any Gospel contradicting what the other Gospels say. The accounts are divergent and mutually complementary, not contradictory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: The wording of the accusation above Christ\u2019s head on the cross is rendered differently in each Gospel account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","category-bible-study","category-bible-teaching","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}