Topic: Unveiling These Verses Of The Scripture (Part Two)
Continued from last episode
In the previous episode, we dealt with the verse Jesus quoted
that was not found in any of the books of the Scripture as supposed. In this
episode we are going to look at another verse quoted by Apostle Paul declaring
that Jesus said it as we see below:
Test Of Interest:
“I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye
ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he
said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Acts 20:35
Here Apostle Paul is quoting what Jesus said, and if one
is studying, he will not hesitate to go look for where Jesus said it in the gospels
but the surprising thing is that he/she will find it not in any of the gospels.
That probably may look like Apostle Paul lied, because if Jesus has made the
statement in the quotation above, it should be found in the gospels and here it
is not. But before one can go further to accuse Apostle Paul of lying because
he/she couldn’t find what Paul said that Jesus said in the gospel is very important
therefore that we should look at how the gospels were written. For example
let’s see what Luke said in his gospel:
“Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in
order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, Even
as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and
ministers of the word; It seemed good to me also, having had perfect
understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order,
most excellent Theophilus,”
Luke 1:1-3
There is a statement in the quotation above that is very
remarkable and we should take note of it. Luke said in the quotation above that
“Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses,
and ministers of the word;” This statement infers that whatever Luke is putting
down in his writing is generated from ‘eyewitnesses’ and from the ‘ministers of
the word’. So he wrote from what people who saw things told him and from what
people who ministers the word told him. Interestingly, Luke is not left out in
this, because Matthew, Mark and even John wrote from what they saw which makes
their writings something based on perspectives, which means ‘how they see it’.
In that case, if one is writing from his own viewpoint it
may be perfect but it cannot be perfectly perfect because perspectives differ
according to one’s understanding. And no wonder their accounts on so many
things vary because each one was writing based on how they see it. Therefore, as a
result in their individual reporting or accounts they were not able to capture
everything done, they are some things left out by some of the writers and they
are some things included by other writers. That was why Apostle John echoed
this statement his account:
“And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of
his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that
ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing
ye might have life through his name.”
John 20:30-31
Therefore, the quotation above depicts that not
everything that Jesus did was recorded by the gospel writers in the same manner
not everything that He said that was also recorded there are so many things
that He said that they couldn’t record because they were writing according to
their perspectives and sources of information available at the time of writing.
To be continued…..
Till I come your way again, keep on basking in the Arena
of Indubitable Truth!
Chukwuemeka
C. Asiegbu
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