Alleged Contradictions and Inaccuracies

Inspiration
Partial
Contradictions
& Inaccuracies
  Preliminary
  Exodus 6:3
  Exodus 33:11,20
  1 Samuel 15:35
  1 Kings 15:14
  2 Kings 18:5
  2 Kings 24:6
  Matthew 2:1
  Matthew 17:1
  Matthew 19:16
  Matthew 20:29
  Matthew 27:6,7
  Matthew 27:37
  Matthew 28:7
  Mark 2:26
  Mark 16:7,8
  John 2:13-16
  James 1:13

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Mark 16:7,8

"{Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome} . . . tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you. And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid."

Luke 24:8,9

"And they remembered his words, and returned, from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven and to all the rest."

Problem:

The Mark record says the women said nothing "to any man", and yet the Luke narrative says the women "told all these things unto the eleven and to all the rest". It is argued, therefore, that the two accounts are contradictory.

Solution:

The apparent contradiction is resolved by the following:

The Lord's first appearance was to one woman only - Mary Magdalene. (John 20:13-17; cf. Mark 16:9).
The other women had only seen the bodiless tomb with a young man in it. As these women were on their way to tell the disciples, ("with fear and great joy"), they were met by Jesus. (Matthew 28:9). It was Jesus who further encouraged the women to tell the news to the disciples. (Matthew 28:10). Until this encounter with Jesus, they had not said "any thing to any man; for they were afraid".