Bart D. Ehrman - The Bane of Fundies!

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What makes you think that John had to place the event, cleansing the temple, at a certain place in his writings. John's gospel is not one written to convey a straight line historical account. Only Luke's gospel tries in any way to tell a historical account and this was not his main intention. All four gospels were written as a wittness about Jesus and the order of the events are not that important, the spiritual truth is the great importance of the gospels.

You don't have "witness" actually occurring within the Gospels. Witness infers that you have report from an observer and that is not the case with the Gospels. One can't even state that the Gospels are based on hearsay as you would have to prove that the story was passed from to another. All that one has with the Gospel are writings of four unique individuals.