Hi All,For those seeking answers, does this help? Consider yourself as a police officer at the scene of a car accident in the middle of an intersection in a city. As you interview the witnesses, you will get more details than from others. Some will see it from a different view than others. Some may remember key points and some others may remember details. It doesn't mean that those that address the key points did not notice the details... it's just that he or she is telling it as they believe they should. Every witness will be delivering the report from recollection and towards the scene of the car accident. Then the evidence is collected from the scene due to skid marks... the damage... the speed variable... as well as the collection of eyewitnesses' reports to find out exactly what had happened.When you are recollecting a series of events, one could address key points and seem contradictory when someone else includes more details about the same event. When in flow of two accounts... one would be assuming that the time and place is contradictory when in fact.. they are just two witnesses telling their story from their view. Some may start their story at a different point as well as another at a later point about the same story in setting the backdrop of the same event.John 12: 1Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. Mark 14: 1After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. 2But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. 3And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, John 12: 2There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Mark 14: ....as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; John 12: 3Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, Mark 14: 3....and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. John 12:3 ....and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. Mark 14: 4And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? 5For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. John 12: 4Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, 5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? 6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. 7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. Mark 14:6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. 7For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. John 12: 8For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. Mark 14: 8She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. 9Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her. John 12: 9Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. 10But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; 11Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus. 12On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. 14And Jesus, when he had found a young ***, sat thereon; as it is written, 15Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ***'s colt. 16These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him. 17The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record. 18For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle. 19The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him. 20And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: 21The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. 22Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. 23And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. 24Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. Note the passage of time. It was later that this verse was referring to...Mark 14: 10And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them. 11And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him. So the witness in Mark skipped ahead to the time when Judas betrayed Jesus...while John included more details as there was another day before the betrayal event... which still leads up to Judas betraying Jesus. Now consider... if two witnesses were copying each other, they would make sure they had all their "stories straight". Thus not only are the two witnesses of this account is genuine, but it goes to the credibility of the copying down through history in keeping the accounts from alterations to "fix" contradictions perceived when in fact... it is the readers (that's us) that is not understanding what is written thus again... it always goes back to those that seek the truth.. ask the Lord for wisdom in understanding the scriptures. Sometimes it can be staring right at us in the face, but we are just not perceiving it.