The Case of the Swiss Messenger

Is it really true that harmonization of reports is a desperate conservative Christian ploy to ward off the threat of biblical contradictions? In this reading from 19th-century theologian Johannes Ebrard, we learn of what I call The Case of the Swiss Messenger, in which various accounts of a non-biblical event turn out to be quite compatible with one another, though a skeptic could make them appear discrepant.   A reading by Tim McGrew.  

Here is the book from which the reading is taken:  https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Gospel_History.html?id=IAMpl0PhPVwC

Originally uploaded to YouTube 2/20/22