"Gospel Quest" (or The Jesus Timeline)

[Brakeman]

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


...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. .

So either the translation of "immediately" is completely wrong, or the writer used poor word choice, and as this is supposedly inspired, that makes a god mistake.. Even god knows to write for his audience's comprehension.

Of course the theists want us to take other theistic bible scholar's word for it as it's not like their job or belief system would bias their opinion in any way..