CONTRADICTION · CRUCIFIXION
Jesus’ last words before dying?
... Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit ...
... It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
This contradiction is crucial because it addresses the climax of Jesus’s earthly life. If the Gospels can’t agree on his final spoken words, it questions their reliability. Such discrepancies cast doubt on the notion that the Bible is a perfectly unified, divinely authored text.
THE CHRISTIAN RESPONSE
Jesus may have spoken multiple final sentences in quick succession. Luke records one phrase, John another. Both can be true if we accept that not every Gospel includes all of Jesus’s words.
THE ISLAMIC POSITION
If all are inspired and accurate, why not a single, consistent final utterance? Having to assume multiple last statements is guesswork, revealing human confusion rather than divine exactitude. This undermines trust in the Gospels’ perfection.
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Jesus’ last words before dying?