#144 Why is John’s Gospel so different? What did Paul know about Jesus?

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🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Tom Wright and Justin Brierley are back with a fresh batch of listener questions on the gospels this week including: How do I reconcile John's portrayal of Jesus with the other gospels? Are the timings of the crucifixion accounts in conflict? And what did Paul know about Jesus? New Testament scholar Justin Bass also joins the conversation. • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training-and-events • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the show, I'm Justin Braly and this is brought to you in partnership
0:21.2	as ever with NTRIGHT Online and SBCK Tom's UK publisher. Tom and I back with a fresh
0:27.4	batch of your questions on the Gospels this week, including, how do I reconcile John's
0:32.8	portrayal of Jesus with the other Gospels? Are the timing of the cruise fiction accounts
0:37.1	in conflict and what did Paul know about Jesus? New Testament scholar Justin Bass is also joining
0:42.9	us for the conversation again this week. Thanks to Dave Smive in South Africa, who says of the podcast
0:48.6	well presented, enough time for substance but easy to fit into a daily schedule, an interesting
0:53.8	range of topics with a breadth in answers and thought. Refreshing, thanks. We do love hearing from
0:58.4	you so if you can leave us a rating and a review it helps others to discover the show too. You can
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1:09.8	also gets you the secret link to ask Tom a question. Now on to today's show.
1:15.8	Hello and welcome back to today's show. It's always a great joy to be joined by Tom to answer
1:27.2	questions about the Gospels and the New Testament but in today's show and in the next couple of
1:31.7	episodes we're also joined by Justin Bass, who we introduced on last week's show. He's a New
1:36.6	Testament scholar with a background teaching in Jordan. He's also the author of the Bedrock of
1:40.7	Christianity but we've got the wisdom of both Tom and Justin. Not Justin Bradley, Justin Bass for
1:46.5	this one. So I'm looking forward to these questions that have come in. Just before we get into these,
1:52.6	we've got questions from John in Philadelphia and other John in the USA and Bob in Pennsylvania.
1:58.3	It was an act just recently that Gordon Fee had passed away Tom. I don't know if you have any
2:02.6	recollections of him and the impact that his work made. Yes, thank you. I knew Gordon a bit.
2:08.9	He taught at Regent College Vancouver for many years and I used to go and lecture there sometimes
2:13.4	and sometimes I've elapt with him. And one memorable week he and I co-taught a course together
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