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Originally Posted by HarryT
Each of the four gospels presents a reasonably consistent picture. A different picture, certainly, but each one is consistent within itself, although they can be mutually contradictory. Of course, each one has its own "agenda" which one needs to take into account. That's only to be expected when one considers that they were written decades after the events they describe, in a different country, by people who certainly weren't eye-witnesses to those events. (eg the author of Mark's gospel was clearly not a Palestinian Jew - he gets the geography of the country wrong, and makes mistakes about Jewish law and customs).
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But how do you know which one to choose? I mean they are inconsistent then only one can be correct.
And personally I do not see how they can explain away incidents like the fig tree.