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Nevertheless, the other three Gospels do not contain the events of
buying swords and curing the excised ear.
24 — It is narrated as follows in the fifty-first and later verses
of the twenty-sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew: “And,
behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand,
and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s, and
smote off his ear.” “Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy
sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish
with the sword.” “Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my
Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve regions of
angels?” “But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it
must be?” (Matt: 26-51, 52, 53, 54) The other Gospels, on the other
hand, do not contain anything concerning these spiritual soldiers,
angels.
25 — In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, as Îsâ
‘alaihis-salâm’ was being taken away for crucifixion, they had a
person named Simon of Cy-re’ne carry the cross, [Matt: 27-32;
Mark: 15-21; Luke: 23-26]. But John says, in the seventeenth verse
of the nineteenth chapter, that Jesus carried the cross himself.
26 — According to the writings of Matthew and Mark, two of
the malefactors who were to be hanged with Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’
kept railing on him. In the Gospel of Luke, though, “One of them
railed, but the other rebuked the former and asked Jesus to
remember him in his kingdom.” [Luke: 23-39, 40, 41, 42, 43.]
27 — The writings about the resurrection of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’
are contradictory in the four Gospels. Lest the reader should
weary of a detailed account, we shall give a summary of the
contradictory verses in each of the Gospels for advisory purposes:
In the fifty-seventh and later verses of the twenty-seventh
chapter of the Gospel of Matthew: “When the eve was come,
there was a rich man of Ar-i-ma-thæa, named Joseph, who also
himself was Jesus’ disciple:” “He went to Pilate, and begged the
body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.”
“And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean
linen cloth.” “And laid it in his own new tomb, which had been
hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of
the sepulchre, and departed.” “And there was Mary Magdalene,
and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.” “Now the
next day, [1]
that followed the day of the preparation, the chief
[1] Saturday. The day of preparation means the day before the sabbath.
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