Week 42 four gospels
Sometimes I wonder about how the four gospel stories fit together. Same basic story…but with differences that make me wonder.
But it’s not like I can’t imagine the same story with differences.
A guy asks: what did you do today?
‘I walked down to the river. The boat was tied to the lop-sided wooden dock and I cast off the lines and let the current drift me downstream while I rowed across to the bend on the other side. The current was moving slowly along the outside curve of the stream and I dropped anchor and started casting toward the caved-in bank, glad the sun was coming around now. Glad to warm up. After a couple of unlucky hours I stowed my gear and idled downstream to a beach. I sat on the sand with half-naked poplars dropping yellow leaves around me. I hadn’t finished my sandwich when a white police launch came around the bend, dawdling upstream at trolling speed. It angled toward me and a husky-looking woman spoke through a megaphone asking if I’d seen two men – escaped prisoners from the minimum security facility…’
So then later another guy asks: what did you do today?
‘I went fishing but I got skunked.’
Same day. Same story. But different too. Same but different.
Figuring out why Guy #1 gets one story but Guy #2 gets another is hard to say.
But for starters what isn’t so hard is the idea that different stories can both be right.