Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Council of Trend Podcast.

Hopefully you have been engaged in your Bible study or Bible reading.

I always encourage people if you want to get into reading the New Testament, try one chapter

a night, even just on weeknights.

And so even if you skip weekends, you do one chapter a night.

There's about 260 chapters in the New Testament.

You'll get through the New Testament in about a year.

But the thing is, as you start reading through the Bible, you'll notice, especially in the

gospels, that the same event can be described in different ways.

And I remember my time in graduate school studying theology.

That was one of the first times that I read the Bible using a synoptic presentation, using

a book that actually would have the same event, the same gospel pericopy or event, but having

each of the texts right next to each other.

Because sometimes we go through the pattern of, you know, we read Mark's Gospel one year

and Matthew's the next and we'll read them sequentially.

But when you compare the texts next to each other, you find all kinds of amazing details

in what is similar, but also in what is different.

Now, sometimes this can lead to perplexing questions and even caused doubt in people.

I remember a while back, my wife and I used to be addicted to the television show House.

And so we would watch the TV show House and one of the characters on the show House, not

Cameron.

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