This last year I tried to put out more posts resolving Bible contradictions concerning the final week of Christ through His Ascension to add to the list I put out last year. It takes some time on my part to go through them to provide exegetically sound refutations; Lord willing I will add more to this lists next year. See my post I wrote on why refuting Bible Contradictions Takes Time. As of Palm Sunday 2019 I have responded to 30 alleged Bible contradictions that took place during the final week of Jesus’ life up to His Ascension. These posts are arranged below roughly in chronological order with additions added after last Resurrection Sunday labeled “NEW” in red:
- On what did Jesus ride into Jerusalem?
- Did Jesus forewarn the apostles of his death and resurrection?
- Did Jesus tell his disciples everything? NEW
- When did Satan enter Judas?
- Did Judas identify Jesus with a kiss?
- Was Jesus taken to Caiaphas or Annas first?
- How did Jesus respond when questioned by the high priest? NEW
- When did Jesus receive his beating?
- Who put the robe on Jesus?
- Who carried Jesus’ cross?
- When (at what time of day) was Jesus crucified? NEW
- What did the sign over Jesus’s head say?
- Did both thieves revile Jesus?
- Can thieves go to heaven?
- Where did the women watching the crucifixion stand?
- What were the last words of Jesus?
- What did the Centurion call Jesus when he died?
- Did Jesus go to heaven after he died but before his ascension?
- Who buried Jesus?
- Who bought the potter’s field?
- What did Judas do with the silver?
- How did Judas die? NEW
- When did the women (or woman) arrive at the sepulchre?
- Whom did the women see at the tomb?
- Where did Jesus first appear to the eleven disciples after the resurrection? NEW
- Were the disciples frightened or glad when they saw Jesus? NEW
- Did Jesus say he would always be with his disciples?
- Did Jesus ascend from Bethany or Mount Olivet?
- How many believers were there at the time of the ascension? NEW
- Who sent the Holy Ghost? NEW
If you are interested you might also want to bookmark our Collection of Posts Responding to Bible Contradictions.
Thanks for this listing! You’ve faithfully put in a ton of work in refuting these alleged contradictions.
You’re welcome! You’re right it has been tons of work, maybe its because I’m slow in my Greek translation and observing the Greek and contexts, but there were a lot of hours spent in those thirty posts. I imagine you know how it is with the time and effort into these responses in light of your series on refuting Dave Armstrong’s twisting of Scripture…
Oh yeah, that Armstrong series was quite a project. I’m glad I started it and equally glad the plane is approaching the runway!
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Thanks for the reblog!
Yankee Whiskey Bravo 👍😎
Great resource! Thanks for making it happen.
Aww thank you for the support and also for sharing this on Twitter! I appreciate it very much. I am praying that those that need these answers will find this post…
Thank you. I am sure you will hear “Well done!” when the time has come.
Wow thank you for that encouragement; I hope you have a blessed Lord’s Day and Palm Sunday today Beverly. Anything I can pray for you for?
Thank you. Yes…Son #3 who already has 6 kidos under 9 years is expecting another in Oct. I think they are trying to increase the kingdom all by themselves. She is on meds that could cause problems . so far God has been very good .
Great work, brother, and many thank you
Thanks! I hope you have a blessed Sunday at church today. Believe it or not I’m still praying for everything…email me if there’s any update.
I will
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JIm, thank you for all your work. Blessings for today and the new week.
Blessing to you too, how was your Lord’s Day?
It was a blessed day, although we did not get to church ~ tornado warnings in our area. We watch the webcast when we cannot be in church.
You got a lot of contradictions here
Sorry I meant a lot of responses to alleged contradictions
I think we can know what you mean Jack from the context. Which got me thinking: isn’t that the thing the skeptic miss, reading according to the context? Authorial intent matter in interpreting meaning.
Thanks for all the work you do, Jim!
Aww thanks brother! I hope you a blessed Sunday earlier…
Thank you! And I hope yours was as well. 🙂
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Great job as always. Praying someone who is searching for the truth reads this
Thank you so much. Thank you also for your prayers; anything I can pray for you brother?
My sister-in-law has cancer
Out of the 30 posts my favorite was “When (at what time of day) was Jesus crucified?” That was the most thorough and well researched rebuttal.
I checked that one out because you pointed it out. That was good, thank you.
It’s appropriate that I found this on Good Friday. It was gratifying reading this.
Excellent great stuff brother keep proper interpretation and scripture at the forefront.
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J Warner Wallace and Apologetics315 shared this. I’m sure this is helpful for many people looking for answers.
Hey, how’s it going?
I want to pass along some very important news that everyone needs to hear!
Jesus came to pay a debt that we could not; to be our legal justifier to reconcile us back to a Holy God; only if we are willing to receive Him: “For the wages of sin is death…” (Romans 6:23).
God so loved the world that He gave us His only begotten son, so that whoever believes in Him, through faith, shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus says if we wish to enter into life to keep the commands! The two greatest commands are to love God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind; and your neighbor as yourself. All the law hang on these commands. We must be born of and lead by the Holy Spirit, to be called children of God, to inherit the kingdom. If we are willing to humble ourselves in prayer to Jesus, to confess and forsake our sins, He is willing to give the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking of Him; giving us a new heart, leading us into all truth!
Jesus came to free us from the bondage of sin. The everlasting fire was prepared for the devil and his angels due to disobedience to God’s law. If we do the same, what makes us any different than the devil? Jesus says unless we repent, we shall perish. For sin is the transgression of the law. We must walk in the Spirit so we may not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, being hatred, fornication, drunkenness and the like. Whoever practices such things will not inherit the kingdom (Galatians 5:16-26). If we sin, we may come before Jesus to ask for forgiveness (1 John 2:1-2). Evil thoughts are not sins, but rather temptations. It is not until these thoughts conceive and give birth by our own desires that they become sin (James 1:12-15). When we sin, we become in the likeness of the devil’s image, for he who sins is of the devil (1 John 3:8); but if we obey Jesus, in the image of God. For without holiness, we shall not see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14).
The oldest religion in the world is holiness through faith (James 1:27). What religion did Adam and Eve follow before the fall? Jesus, Who became the last Adam, what religion does He follow? Is He not holy? He never told us to follow the rituals and traditions of man but to take up our cross and follow Him (Luke 9:23). There are many false doctrines being taught leading people astray. This is why we need the Holy Spirit for discernment. Unlike religion, holiness cannot be created. It is given to us from above by the baptism of the Spirit. Jesus is more than a religion; He is about having a personal relationship with the Father. Start by reading the Gospel of Matthew, to hear the words of God, to know His character and commandments. Follow and obey Jesus, for He is the way, the truth, and the life!
I was reading your long comment expecting it was something you contributed to the topic of the post…
We all know God exists. Why? Because without Him, we couldn’t prove anything at all. Do we live our lives as if we cannot know anything? No. So why is God necessary? In order to know anything for certain, you would have to know everything, or have revelation from somebody who does. Who is capable of knowing everything? God. So to know anything, you would have to be God, or know God.
A worldview without God cannot account for the uniformity and intelligibility of nature. And why is it that we can even reason that God is the best explanation for this if there is no God? We are given reason to know or reject God, but never to know that He does not exist.
e truth, and the life!
Nice list you have going here
This site is an apologetics’ gold mine!
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I hope you can find time to read this over,
Why do we need Jesus?
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 2:23).
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
Our own works can’t save our souls. If we step in front of a judge in the court of law, being guilty for committing a crime, the judge won’t judge us by the good that we have accomplished, but rather the crimes we’ve committed. If we as fallen humanity, created in God’s image, pose this type of moral justice, how much greater a perfect, righteous, and Holy creator?
God has introduced to us His ethical regulation’s by means of the ten commandments handed to Moses at Mt. Siani. These legal guidelines were not given so we may be justified, however in order that we might see the need for our saviour. They’re the mirror of God’s character of what He has put in every one of us, with our conscious bearing witness that we all know that it’s an act of evil to steal, lie, dishonor our mother and father, and so forth.
We can attempt to observe all the ethical guidelines of the ten commandments, but we’ll in no way catch up to them to be justified before a Holy God. The same word of the law given to Moses became flesh over 2000 years ago inside the body of Jesus Christ. He came to be our justification by perfectly fulfilling the commandments of God, living a sinless life that only God could fulfill.
The space between us and the law can in no way be reconciled by our own personal merit, but the arm of Jesus is stretched out by the grace and mercy of God. And if we are to grab on, by faith in Him, He will pull us forward being the one to justify us. As within the court of law, if somebody steps in and pays your fine, despite the fact that you’re guilty, the judge can do what’s legal and just and allow you to go free. That is what Jesus did nearly 2000 years in the past on the cross. It was a legal transaction being fulfilled inside the spiritual realm by the shedding of His blood, with His final words being, “…It is finished!…” (John 19:30).
Now why did Jesus have to die for us?
Due to the fact that God is Holy and just, the wrath that belongs to us could not go unnoticed. Through the perfect righteousness and justice of God’s character, it ought to be dealt with, it ought to be quenched and satisfied.
For God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 18:23). That is why in Isaiah chapter 53, the place it speaks of the coming Messiah and His soul being a sacrifice for our sins, why it says it satisfied God to crush His only begotten Son.
This is due to the fact the wrath that we deserve was justified by being poured out upon His Son. For if it were to be poured out upon us deserve it, we’d all die and go to hell. God created a means of escape by pouring it out on His Son who’s soul could not be left in Hades, but was raised and seated on the right hand of God in power.
Now after we put on the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 13:14), God no longer see’s the individual who deserves His wrath, but the glorious image of His perfect Son living inside of us, justifying us as if we received the wrath we deserve, making a way of escape from the curse of death.
Now what we must do is repent and believe in the saviour, confessing and forsaking our sins. That is not just a head knowledge of believing in Jesus, howeverrather receiving His words, taking them to heart. In which we no longer live to exercise sin, however turn away from our sins and exercise righteousness:
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).
By doing so we may become transformed into the image of God through faith in His Son Christ Jesus Who is inclined to offer the Holy Spirit to those that ask of Him:
“Most assuredly, I(Jesus) say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ (John 3:5-6).
“But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His” (Romans 8:9).
Now what are you waiting for? Our Father in heaven only wants the best for us all, restoring every thing this world has stolen from us. That is what it means to be “holy”. To be made whole.
He’s waiting to listen to you. That God given tongue to speak language, by means of faith, pray to Him, ask Him to forgive you by confessing your sins and be willing to forsake them; that you receive the sacrifice of His Son Jesus on the cross, and that you want His Holy Spirit dwelling inside you transforming you into a child of the living God.
Jesus says, “but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him(the Holy Spirit) will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Did you realize that Jesus spoke more about hell than any one else in the word of God, even more than He spoke about heaven?! For this very cause He came to die for us, to deliver us from this place that we earned by our sins against a holy God.
He describes hell as a real place where,
“Their worm does not die
And the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:44).
And where,
“There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth…” (Luke 13:28).
Jesus tells us who to fear,
“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).
“Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’
Then He who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ And He said to me, ‘Write, for these words are true and faithful.’
And He said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.'” (Revelation 21:1-8).
God loves you!
I really appreciate your steel resolve to refute the atheists! I have been looking all over for something like this! Thank goodness I found it. Your collection of 30 answers made my day!