Logos 4: Compare Parallel Passages

Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos training seminars.

You perhaps know that some events in the Bible are recorded more than one time. For example, Matthew, Mark, and Luke all record the account of Jesus being tempted by Satan. The passages describing the same event in the Bible are called parallel passages.

In addition, a book displaying these parallel passages is called a harmony. A harmony of the gospels, for instance, usually shows, in column format, parallel passages from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. With a harmony you can easily read how various biblical writers described the same event.

Did you know that your library likely contains numerous harmonies? The Parallel Passages section of the Passage Guide automatically searches these harmonies for you, but you can also open them individually from the Library:

• Click the Library icon
• In the Find box of the Library enter this text: type:harmony
• You should now see all of your harmonies listed
• Click a specific title to open it, such as, A Harmony of the Gospels by A.T. Robertson
  Note: A Harmony of the Gospels, by A .T. Robertson is included in base packages from Bible Study Library and above.
• Click the panel menu on this resource and select Show table of contents
• From the contents pane click a section title like 25. The Three Temptations of Jesus

Now by reading three different accounts of the same event, we may be able to glean details perhaps we overlooked before!