Evaluating Two Shorter Miracle Accounts 1

In this continuation of my series on Gospel reliability and miracles, I evaluate the stories of Jesus' healing the woman with the issue of blood and raising Jairus's daughter. These stories are told in intertwined accounts. We find them in all three Synoptic Gospels--Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Here I discuss issues of independence between the accounts and of the credibility of the accounts and conclude that, between the other evidence we have for reliability and the credibility of these accounts, we have a good case that the external events recounted in these stories took place and were observed by the disciples. These stories provide a good test case for the methodology I have been advocating for historical evaluation, here looking at accounts that are briefer and less varied than the accounts of Jesus' post-resurrection appearances.  Check out a recent video I did for Ratio Christi at Western Michigan University on how we know that the Gospels are reliable.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM6IomPKB2w&feature=youtu.be  

Originally uploaded to YouTube Nov 11 2020