The Bible seemingly presents inconsistencies in the records of the different authors of the gospel. There is really none of such, however. When we leave an open mind to God’s Word, He will reveal so many things on a personal basis to us through His Spirit.

My personal dealings with the Holy Spirit have given me a deeper understanding of how the perceived irregularities clear up. On several occasions, the Lord has given me word in my dream, only for me to discover when I wake that I could not recall one or two words in them precisely. But then I realize that the sense is usually not lost, but soon falls in place, especially after I meditated on the various scenes in the dream and the general feelings in it.

I believe that the variance in content or presentation of the different authors could arise from the way they received the revelations. If you have written essays before, you will recall that so many ideas stream through your head in the process. But not all the details that you care to write down. And don’t mistake the fact that the word of God was given to Holy men as they were moved by the Holy Ghost to mean that it always came through some kind of dictation of exact words. Sometimes, yes. As you grow in your relationship with the Holy Spirit, you will see that He will often put an idea in your mind, based on your knowledge of the word of God. Then He guides your thoughts to coordinate the various aspects as you write. 

That is why He cannot work with just anybody. You must have some familiarity with the things of God. If you noticed, the writers of the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were people who either were together with Jesus from the beginning of His ministry or got their information after mingling with the Apostles for a very long time, like Luke. The book of the Prophets and the Law was their own kind of Bible. Remember also that the New Testament is the fulfillment of the law. So, any one of them who had a good grasp of the Old Testament, had enough information for the Holy Ghost to work with them.

I once had a revelation about Moses striking the rock. The Holy Spirit knew that I was familiar with the details of that event; so, He chose to give me those words. He said, “The word of God smotest that Moses who thinketh His ways in alterable.” Notice that the last word ‘in alterable’ is not in any dictionary. What I actually held in memory waking up was ‘inalltery.’ I understood it to derive from the word ‘alter.’ I used my initiative to adjust it to the form ‘in alterable,’ while I was open to a possible correction, as He does to me when I got something wrong the first time. There was none in this case yet.  

The purpose of the vision as at the time of writing this is still not very clear to me: maybe it will be in the future. There are a bunch of other vocabularies like that which I have received over the years. Sometimes I have wondered maybe it is His will to introduce those to us anyway. They include Masquitran – meaning selfsame thing, Hermatheparen – meaning the art of divining or consulting the supernatural. And as you probably have noticed on this website the word fortical, which derive from the word fortify or to strengthen.

The writer made it clear that the statement Jesus made was to be taken on its face value. He is saying that the people didn’t need to try to seek any deeper understanding to what was said. If you read verses 20 and 21, you will see that that statement referred to the ‘disciple whom Jesus loved’. Taking other references into account, I thought that Peter definitely had something to sort with this disciple. I believe there was some kind of jealousy on the part of Peter because that disciple was always very close to Jesus. Do you remember the disciples asking Jesus who it was that should betray Him? Look at John 13:23 and 24. There, Peter asked this disciple to find out from the Lord who He was talking about. Why? I believe Peter felt the Lord will tell this disciple because he was favored of Him. And now in chapter 21, Peter sights the disciple following them again. I believe that Jesus was trying to get Peter’s attention to his unbecoming attitude towards John (that disciple whom Jesus loved). So the Lord asked Peter, “what will it benefit you if I asked John to stay behind?” (John 21:22) [Paraphrased]. His response was as straight forward as that.