The Resurrection as Told by John

Look at the resurrection as told by Matthew and as told by John. Separately, they are both feasible, but if you look at them side by side.... well, you'll see.

In Matthew, the two Mary's go to the tomb, are greeted by the an Angel who rolls away the stone from the tomb so that they might see that Jesus's body is not there. The Angel then proclaims Jesus has risen from the dead. The two Mary's are then to tell the disciples to meet Jesus in Galilee.

While on the way, the two Marys run into Jesus himself, whom they both worship and whom then repeats the Angel's instructions.


Now.... let's move onto John. Once again, there is an empty tomb, but that is about the only similarity.

In John, only Mary Magdalene goes to the tomb. There is no Angel to greet her, and she fears that the body has been stolen. Having no reason to believe otherwise, she runs to the disciples to inform them of the grave robbery.

According to Matthew, both Mary's meet the Angels and the resurrected Jesus himself before seeing the disciples, yet according to John this is obviously not the case.

Actually, even more contradictions abound. Matthew has Roman guards placed at the tomb to ensure the body is not stolen. Yet Matthew's guards have no place in John's accounting.
Christian evangelists use these guards as a means to say that the resurrection was the only reason his body was not at the tomb... but yet, according to John, the more likely possibility appeared to be the body was stolen, as there were no guards.

According to John, Mary returns to the tomb to find two Angels inside, and without any reason to believe the body hadn't been stolen, Mary confronts the Angels, adamant to find the location of the body. Then Jesus himself arrives, who Mary mistakes for a gardener, and she confronts him, wondering if he is the one who stole the body.
It is only then that Mary realizes she is speaking to the resurrected Jesus.

Matthew has the Angels telling Mary about Jesus before she sees him, and only goes to the tomb once, and yet according to John, Mary doesn't find out until a second visit to the tomb, when she runs into Jesus himself.


And so, as I have asked before, is John infallible, or is Matthew infallible?
The two accounts of the crucifixion and the resurrection are hopelessly irreconcilable. They cannot both be infallible.
Matthew, Mark, and Luke agree, yet John remains the odd-man out with an account that contradicts the other three.