Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The thieves on the cross

Mark
I noticed in Mark 15:32 that is said the robbers who were crucified with Jesus heaped insults on him.  However, in Luke 23:39, only one thief insulted him while the other requested that Jesus remember him.
After a little bit of research, I learned about a literary term called 'synecdoche', which means that a whole can be used to refer to a part, or vice versa.  Thus, the scriptures can still be in agreement even with these differences between the texts.

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