Have you ever noticed how the 4 gospels differ in some ways? To someone that isn't very diligent, they'll tell you that all four are the same, but just John is a little different. Or, they'll tell you the Gospels differ in certain places. But, theough they are differences, the differences are just tiny pieces of a collective picture, for example how Jesus Christ was tempted in the desert. How many times was He tempted? 6 times. Yes, there were 3 temptations, types of temptation, but the first of the temptations starts in Luke Chap. 4, where there are 3. The last are the same as the first, but the whole of His temptations end in Matthew Chap. 4; That makes a total of 6. Yes, He was tempted throughout, but 6 major culminations of the temptation at the hands of satan where satan repeats the same temptations twice.
So the difference wasn't a difference it was a deliberate-in-design harmonizing of the two accounts of the disciples hearing Jesus, to bring in more meaning. Wherever you see something that seems like it would conflict with something else, there is always, always higher meaning to it. I guarantee it, 100%. It never seems to fail, and the Holy written Word of God, that does its job 100% at testifying, seems to be inexhaustible. The Lord loves to conceeal things so His children can find it.
So, I've been looking at the end-times harmonizing in Mark 13, Matthew 24, and Luke 21 to try to see more details about the coming time, when the figs on the fig tree are ripe in that parable. I found that there's a difference in Luke right around Chapter 21, Verse 18, it says no one will harm a hair on our head, but later it says what the other Gospels say, that the tribulation will be so great, no flesh will be saved and so forth. But, Luke gives more of a detail that the other Gospels don't: Verse 12, Jesus says, "But, before all these..." And so, Jesus spoke about a time before the "Beginning of Sorrows," where we'll be hated above all men. Important and not to be overlooked, and discovered by seeing how the Gospels harmonize with each other, it was.
I hope the Lord will teach you more about this. I'm going to be asking Him myself.
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