(May 1, 2013 at 1:45 am)A_Nony_Mouse Wrote: Seriously what were these thirteen geeks doing in their spare time? Staying drunk and singing bawdy songs? If you read the gospels and look only at Mark with a ONE year ministry you notice it contains barely enough material for a single month much less a year.
I think it was John who closed his gospel by claiming that Jesus did and said so many notable things that there wasn't enough paper to write it all down on. The idea being that you were just getting the merest glimpse of what he did. I don't know if the other 40-some gospels that did not get included in the Bible cover the same ground or (like the gospel of Thomas) tell different tales. But if it's true that Jesus was a whirlwind of activity for three years, it makes the lack of reporting about him seem even more odd to me.
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