Bart Ehrman’s Post Jesus’ Death in Mark and Luke, September 10, 2012. Excerpt – Luke, then, changed Mark’s account both because he had a different view of Jesus going to his death and because he wanted his readers to take away something different from the account. It is a real mistake to think that Mark and Luke have the same view of Jesus and want to emphasize the same things. To think that is to miss the point, of both Mark and Luke. When you splice their accounts together into one big mega-account, in effect you have rejected what each one of them has to say, and have written your OWN account. You can do that if you want, but when you do so, you need to realize what you’ve done: you have written your own Gospel and declared (ironically) that the Gospels of the New Testament simply got it all wrong (it’s ironic because your new account has come completely from the two accounts that you have decided are both wrong).
Handout from Lesson 9 of Mark Goodacre’s course during the fall of 2024 at BSA titled The Mysteries of the Synoptic Gospels.
