"Gospel Quest" (or The Jesus Timeline)

[Undeceived]

John's Jesus first makes his appearance at his baptism but John still hints that Jesus is almost 50.

8:57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

I've never heard this one before. But upon researching, apparently 50 years is "the completion of manhood" for a Jew. Isn't this just saying that Jesus is still in his prime?

"Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting."

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According to the Gospel of Mark, Jesus, after his baptism, immediately went into the Wilderness for 40 days.

1:12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.

...but John's Gospel tells us that Jesus spent the next two days gathering disciples and the third day going to a wedding.

Mark uses the words "immediately" and "at once" 42 times in his gospel (Greek eutheōs and euthus). I could post plenty of articles about why he probably does this--they are readily available. Do you believe all 42 are to be taken literally, that absolutely nothing happened in the meantime? Read Biblical scholars' commentaries. They are experts in ancient Jewish and Greek linguistics, unlike us. Interpreters get into trouble when they try to to force 21st-century American/British meanings onto words written years and cultures apart.