The Bible Exposed

Tag: Jesus: sundry points

  • Jesus: sundry points: Matthew 10:23

    A set of sayings of Jesus that the argument finds troubling. In Matthew 10:23 he tells the disciples they will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes; two thousand years later, nothing of the kind has happened. In Mark 4:11-12 he explains that he speaks in parables so that those outside will see and not perceive, lest they turn and be forgiven, which the argument reads as concealing his message. In Luke 14:26 he says anyone who does not hate father, mother, wife and children cannot be his disciple.

    John 14:6 has him say that no one comes to the Father except through him, but Peter says in Acts 10:34-35 that in every nation anyone who fears God and does what is right is acceptable to him. The argument sets the two sayings in tension. (The New Testament text is not yet on this site.)

    Source: see Credits and references (no. 22, p. 21).