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De Moor's Theological Disputation on Mark 15:25 and John 19:14: The Chronological Paradox

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There is a very famous ἐναντιοφανὲς, apparent contradiction, that occurs in the History of the Lord’s Passion, if you compare Mark with John in the placement of a certain fixed point of time regarding the Passion of the Lord.  Namely, Mark in the narration of those things that the Lord suffered on Golgotha, has in Mark 15:25, ἦν δὲ ὥρα τρίτη, καὶ ἐσταύρωσαν αὐτόν, and it was the third hour, and they crucified Him.  But John, being about to exhibit the final scene that Pilate acted out with the Lord, and in which he next delivered Him to be crucified, notes in John 19:14, ἦν δὲ Παρασκευὴ τοῦ πάσχα, ὥρα δὲ ὡσεὶ ἕκτη, and it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour.  But, if it were already roughly the Sixth Hour, when Pilate condemned our Lord to death, in what manner was Mark able to make mention of the Third Hour when he is in the relation of the history of the suffering of the Cross, which Christ afterwards suffered on Mount Golgotha?

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John mentions hours of the day in Roman appropriation or count, while he for the date mentions Bible-events of the day in Biblical / Hebrew solar-lunar / monthly appropriation or count.

Mark, Matthew and Luke for both the hours of the night and day, and the event(s) of such a day or days, use only the Biblical / Hebrew solar-lunar / monthly appropriation.

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See Wendelin's shorter treatment of the Doctrine of Scripture: www.fromreformationtoreformation.com/introductory-theology 

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Last Week:  “THREE DAYS”

1. THURSDAY : DEATH Abib 14 "THE FIRST DAY" “before” (Friday) Abib 15 2Chronicles 35:4,6,10,14 “prepared passover … KILLED the passover” = Exodus 12:15a “when they REMOVED leaven” = Leviticus 23:22,10 “when ye REAP the corners ... bring the first sheaf” Mark 14:12—15:41 “WHEN THEY ALWAYS KILLED THE PASSOVER” = Luke 22:7—23:49 “WHEN THEY HAD TO KILL THE PASSOVER” = Mark 14:2 “not on the feast” = Matthew 26:5 “not on the feast” = John 19:14-30 “THE PREPARATION OF THE PASSOVER” = Matthew 26:17—27:56 “THE FIRST DAY LEAVEN WAS REMOVED / THE FIRST DAY WITHOUT LEAVEN” = John 12:32,34; 8:28 “the Son of Man must be LIFTED UP” = John 13:1—19:30 “before the feast ... HIS HOUR ... it was…

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Dr. Steven Dilday holds a BA in Religion and Philosophy from Campbell University, a Master of Arts in Religion from Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia), and both a Master of Divinity and a  Ph.D. in Puritan History and Literature from Whitefield Theological Seminary.  He is also the translator of Matthew Poole's Synopsis of Biblical Interpreters and Bernardinus De Moor’s Didactico-Elenctic Theology.

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