Are the accounts of the resurrection as given by the Synoptics identical in every particular?

1 min readUpdated 12 October 2022

They are identical as regards substance and fact. They record different but not mutually exclusive particulars. Each gives its own independent summary, not pretending to give all and only that which occurred.

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