Question Concering The Circulation Of The Scriptures

According to the gospels of Matthew and Mark, the Lord was annointed with precious ointment by a woman from a box of alabaster. On that day Jesus prophesied that,

"Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her."

With this prophecy in mind, please answer this question: has there been any preacher of the gospel since the days of Christ who did not have access to the record of this woman's good deed to the Savior?

Mark Osgatharp

 

RSR,

I say that prophecy is history written in advance. Can you say "Amen" to that?

Mark Osgatharp

 

Diane,

Jesus said that "wheresoever" the gospel was preached this deed would be made known. Therefore the idea that there might have been a time or place where the record of this event was lost to the Lord's people is unthinkable.

Since this prophecy is found only in the books of Matthew and Mark, it compels us to believe that there was no place on earth where the gospel was preached where at least one of these gospels was not known.

So much for the idea that some of the Lord's churches had only fragments of the gospel available to them - unless, that is, someone would like to try to build an argument that every church that had a fragment had a fragment that contained this incident.

Mark Osgatharp

 

Danny,

Since we know the knowledge of this incident went wherever the gospel was preached, it had to be transmitted and preserved by some method. Since we know it was written down by Matthew and Mark we know that it was transmitted through their writings.

Do you have evidence that some of the places where the gospel was preached received this bit of gospel knowledge only in oral form? Remember that Jesus said it went in every place "wheresoever" the gospel was preached.

Mark Osgatharp