Contradictions and Paradoxes in John 19:28

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According to John, Jesus knew that everything he needed to do was almost done, and to make sure the special writings about him came true, he said, "I am thirsty."

John 19:28: After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.

Contradiction with John 4:14

John 19:28 mentions Jesus expressing thirst, whereas John 4:14 speaks of Him offering "living water" that will cause one to never thirst.

John 4:14: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

Contradiction with Matthew 27:34

Offers wine mixed with gall to drink, which Jesus refused, contradicting His later thirst expressed in John 19:28.

Matthew 27:34: They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted [thereof], he would not drink.

Contradiction with Revelation 7:16

States that those in heaven will neither hunger nor thirst, contradicting the thirst of Jesus mentioned in John 19:28.

Revelation 7:16: They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

Contradiction with Philippians 4:12-13

Suggests that in Christ, one can be content in all circumstances, conflicting with Jesus’s expressed physical need in John 19:28.

Philippians 4:12-13: I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

Contradiction with John 7:37

Jesus invites others to come to Him if they are thirsty, seemingly inconsistent with His own expression of thirst in John 19:28.

John 7:37: In the last day, that great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
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