12/12/2023 0 Comments Tim tinge plato mnUnlike Luke, John has peppered, or more to the point thoroughly seasoned his gospel with the Ascension of Christ. We have no account of Christ ascending to the Father in John, althought we have plenty of references. Further, the conversation between Christ and Peter about John references the fact that Christ at some point was leaving, or else His language of ’till I come’ would be pointless. Although John, unlike Luke and the longer version of Mark, has no clear cut ascension story, the signs of the departure of Christ is evident. My readings of all the gospels have the disciples in very different places at the end. Luke, Acts and Mark (the longer version) describe the events as being somewhere near the Mt of Olives, near Bethany and the event up to 40 days after the resurrection. This is the teaching that our tradition is based on. The gospels of Matthew and John both have the disciples in Galilee after the resurrection. went away into Galilee, unto a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.” There is given the Great Commission, but not the ascension. The whole of John 21 takes place by the sea of Tiberius (Galilee) but again does not specifically describe either the ascension or the Great Commission. Nevertheless, both gospels are clear that the disciples had gone to Galilee. Since Matthew and John were disciples and presumably witnesses, whereas Luke and Mark wrote the testimony of others, Mark through Peter and Luke as he “.carefully investigated everything from the beginning.”, we should give more credence to the accuracy of the first two.
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