The Feeding of the Five Thousand 1: Apparent Discrepancies

This episode begins a sub-series on the feeding of the five thousand. The feeding accounts in the Gospels make an important contribution of their own to the case for Gospel reliability. But what about alleged discrepancies between them? Here I point out how the appearance of discrepancy between accounts contributes to the case that they do not come from a common source--a type of independence. This is especially valuable if the apparent discrepancies can be well explained by causes that we expect to arise when we have different accounts that go back to separate people with knowledge of the events. Here I address the first alleged discrepancy between accounts of the feeding: The question of where Jesus was when he first saw the large crowd.

Originally uploaded to YouTube Nov 20 2020