Contradictions and Paradoxes in Mark 6:13

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Mark 6:13 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Mark 6:13. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Mark, Jesus' friends helped people by sending away bad spirits and using special oil to make sick people feel better and healthy again. They were doing what Jesus taught them to do.

Mark 6:13: And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed [them].

Contradiction with Matthew 8:4

Mark 6:13 mentions anointing with oil for healing, whereas Matthew 8:4 refers to Jesus telling a healed leper to show himself to the priest and offer a gift as commanded by Moses, with no mention of oil anointing.

Matthew 8:4: And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

Contradiction with 1 Timothy 5:23

Mark 6:13 describes curing diseases through anointing, but 1 Timothy 5:23 advises using a little wine for stomach issues, suggesting a medicinal remedy rather than a miraculous or anointing approach.

1 Timothy 5:23: Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

Contradiction with John 9:6-7

While Mark 6:13 speaks of healing with oil anointing, John 9:6-7 recounts Jesus healing a blind man using mud and washing, indicating a different method for healing without oil.

John 9:6-7: When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, [anointed...: or, spread the clay upon the eyes of the blind man]

Contradiction with James 5:14-15

Mark 6:13 discusses the use of anointing with oil for healing by disciples, whereas James 5:14-15 combines prayer and anointing by elders, involving a community approach rather than just the disciples' action.

James 5:14-15: Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

Contradiction with Luke 4:40

Mark 6:13 focuses on the disciples’ role in healing, but Luke 4:40 attributes the healing of sicknesses directly to Jesus without mentioning the use of oil.

Luke 4:40: Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
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