Should you really care whether the voice of the Father at Jesus' baptism said, "You are my beloved son" or "This is my beloved son"? That depends entirely on what other baggage is being brought along with the answer to the question. If Matthew is "making" something public here that really only could have been heard in the privacy of Jesus' own mind, and if John is "making" the dove visible to John the Baptist when really, only Jesus could see it, then yes, that matters. But why in the world should we think that there is any tension between the Gospels on these points? Once we start getting hold of the naturally paraphrastic nature of memory and drop the assumption that the Gospel authors are making factual changes when there is the slightest wording difference, we can see that this doesn't matter. But the reason it doesn't matter is that the critical scholars are just wrong in their interpretation of the Gospel of Mark, and we need to say that, too, loud and clear.Clarity. Always clarity.A copy of the essay by Darrell Bock that I quote in this video can be found in a book that you can check out electronically here:https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780853647522/page/86/mode/1up
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