-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/07 03:48, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 16:55:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/09/07 15:54, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > >>> It always struck me as odd that the gospels could not agree on whether >>> Josef and Maria had to go Bethlehem for a census or if they had been > ^^^^^ ^^^^^ > Interesting how I slipped back into childhood there without even > noticing...
:) >>> living there already. >> Which canon Gospel is that in? Both Matthew and Luke say that the >> couple traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem. > > Only Luke has the taxation/census story. Matthew states that Jesus was > born in Bethlehem without mentioning any preceding journey (Mt 2:1). He > has the family settling in Nazareth once they return from Egypt, but it > sounds like that is the first time that Joseph comes to that city (Mt > 2:22-23). > > The contradiction is not as clear as I remembered it, though. Each gospel is only telling the part of the story that he sees as relevant to his audience. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGRZHYS9HxQb37XmcRAtxxAJ9OqtRlWK5kzgyv4sXAkTpHy49lvQCeP7fo 2lHv1CCZIXNTzXfmMsHLj7o= =8lkf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
