My book report pt1

[John V]

Nice work.

Oh, yeah this would be a big problem to resolve if one assumes like Bart has that Gospels of John and Mark were both meant to chronoligcally account the events as they happen.

I considered noting this possibility in the recent John the Baptist thread but wanted to see how it would play out. John 1 has JtB giving testimony before the Word was made flesh. Doesn't seem like chronology was his main concern.

The same can be said of Peter’s denials of Jesus. In Mark’s Gospel,
Jesus tells Peter that he will deny him three times “before the
cock crows twice.” In Matthew’s Gospel he tells him that it will be
“before the cock crows.” Well, which is it—before the cock crows
once or twice?

Yeah, this and the angels are non-issues. If you saw two angels, you necessarily saw an angel. Saying that you saw an angel is not equivalent to saying that you saw only one angel.