Saturday, 1 October 2016

What Colour was the robe Scarlet or Purple?


What colour was the robe scarlet or purple?




And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him 
(Matthew 27:28)

And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. (John 19:2)


You might also see Mark 15:17 mentioned, though Mark seems to use the word "cloak" rather than "robe". The contradiction is sharper between Matthew and John. 

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Serious contradiction on what colour garment was worn, However, we find an interesting passage in Revelation, where these words for purple and scarlet are definitely used to describe different colours. 

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. (Revelation 17:4)

So here, "purple" and "scarlet" are different enough to be mentioned seperately. This renders the above explanation problematic....

Question is if the authors are supposed to have been inspired by the Holy Ghost Why do we have such discrepancies where one can't even agree what colour garment was worn? Many Christian apologist tried to explain this discrepancy by using the following explanation:

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"the robe was an old discarded piece, faded and therefore of ambiguous colour". However, Luke 23:11 describes some "splendid clothing" that is put on Jesus, 

And Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, arraying him in splendid clothing, he sent him back to Pilate.
(Luke 23:11)

Another suggestion is that Jesus was actually given twodifferent pieces of clothing, or a striped robe. None of the gospel writers say anything like this, of course.
Again the attempts to harmonise this epic blunder only causes the it to grow bigger.
Another Blow on the alleged crucifixion scenario

SHAME!!! 




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