Bart D.Ehrman Jesus, Interrupted

Am reading this interesting book written by a great New Testament biblical scholar concerning contradictions in N.T check it out!

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Excerpt pg 39-40

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What Did the Voice at Jesus’ Baptism Say?
It depends on which account you read. The baptism is not narrated
in John, but we do have accounts in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, all
very similar. This is what one would expect: scholars have long
known that Matthew and Luke got a number of their stories from
Mark, one of their key sources; that’s why there are so many cases of
verbatim agreement. But there are differences because Matthew and
Luke changed the wording of their sources in certain places. In any
event, in all three accounts of Jesus’ baptism, when he emerges from
the water the heavens open up, the Spirit descends in the form of a
dove, and a voice comes from heaven. But what does the voice say? In
Matthew it says, “This is my son, in whom I am well pleased.” The
voice appears to be speaking to the people around Jesus, or possibly
to John the Baptist, informing them who Jesus is. In Mark, however
the voice says, “You are my son, in whom I am well pleased.” In this
case the voice appears to be speaking directly to Jesus, telling him,
or confirming to him, who he really is. In Luke we have something
different (this is a bit complicated, because different manuscripts of
Luke’s Gospel give the voice different words. I am taking here the
original wording of the verse as found in some older manuscripts of
the Bible, even though it is not found in most English translations).9
Here the voice says, “You are my son, today I have begotten you”
(3:22), quoting the words of Psalm 2:7.
Each account is trying to do something different with the voice.
That is to say, the different words mean different things and have
different functions: in Matthew, the words identify Jesus to John
the Baptist and the crowd; in Mark, to confirm Jesus’ identity to
him directly; in Luke, they declare that the baptism has made (or
ratified?) him as God’s special son. But there remains the question,
What did the voice actually say? Early Christians were confused by
this problem, so much so that a later Gospel, called the Gospel of the
Ebionites, resolved it by indicating that the voice came from heaven
on three occasions. First it said the words as related by Mark, which
were addressed to Jesus; then it said the words as related by Matthew,
addressed to John the Baptist and the crowd; and fi nally the
words as related by Luke. But unless someone is willing to rewrite
all three Gospels, the fact is they indicate that the voice said different
things.

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