The angle from which we view things makes a big difference. Lord Chesterfield once pointed out that a horse looks pretty much like a horse when viewed from ground level, but when you climb up in the loft and look down on a horse from the top, it looks a good deal like a violin. Your perspective is the difference.

It is not unusual, in the Gospels, for the same story to be told by two different authors from two different perspectives. The result is often a much richer interpretation.

For example, in Matthew ™s Gospel we read about the time the disciples failed in an attempt to heal an epileptic youth. When they asked Jesus why they had failed, he responded by saying it was their lack of faith. Then he added, "...if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, …