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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (60136)	10/24/1999 11:33:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think it is very interesting that only Luke is this elaborate. John is more informative (IMO the main author of John was there in person and he mentions that the assailant was Peter which the other gospels (not written, I believe, by eyewitnesses but based on other sources such as Simon Peter) don't). But only Luke (who wasn't there, I believe, but is relying on Peter's unwritten account). Luke embroidered Mark and Matthew (IMO), and may have had help from Peter to make the two sword incident show that Jesus "plotted" the sword cut incident (to fulfill the scriptures that Jesus "should be taken as a criminal". Jesus may have wanted to be sure that someone was armed with a sword so his gang could violently resist the highpriest's mob (but not win -- thus two swords "were enough"). Thus it was not by mere chance that Peter struck off Malchus's ear, but the result of Jesus's foresight or planning. If we aren't careful we might actually learn something from this discussion.