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Who asked for the best seats in heaven?

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Competing Claims

How this contradiction is framed

Claim A argues "James and John," while Claim B argues "The mother of James and John." Compare the passages under each side to see how the contradiction is being built.

Claim A

James and John

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Mark 10:35-37

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  • Mark 10:35-37

Claim B

The mother of James and John

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Matthew 20:20-21

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  • Matthew 20:20-21

Embedded Scholar Context

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What’s up with the “Great Apostasy”?

Matthew 20

rily in like second Thessalonians 2 3 but also in first Timothy 4 and in second Timothy 3 and Perhaps even in Matthew 20…

The Bible did not give us the due process clause

Matthew 20

Is it greedy for a Christian to own 20 houses?

Mark 10

condemnations of wealth and attempting to assert one's righteousness while they hoard wealth for instance in Mark 10 as he was setting out on…

There Was Never a Gate at Jerusalem Called the “Eye of the Needle”

Mark 10

t as well so it's just something that somebody made up to soften the hyperbole that Jesus uses in Luke 18 and Mark 10…

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Attribution

Initial contradiction dataset seeded from BibViz and adapted into the Sacrilegious Discourse knowledge base. BibViz is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

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