The Bible & Robe Colours?

Question

And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. [Matthew 27:28]
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And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head." [Mark 15:17]
And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. [John 19:2]
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What happened to the colours? Did they change?

Answer 1

why dont christians agree on this?

one says it's red because of blood, the other says it's related to purple...

Answer 2

Excellent question...

what we have here is analogous to a pair of grey blue jeans. Purple garments were made using a particular kind of dye, usually derived from myrex shellfish. A brief description of the ancient process of obtaining purple dye can be read at www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk/tyrian . At that webpage there is a quotation from the writings of Pliny the Elder. Pliny states, among other things, “A frankly red colour is inferior to one with a tinge of black.”
Thus it seems clear that the color which we know as purple was not the only tint which could be produced using purple-dye as it was known in the first century. It could also be used to make reddish garments, and such a scarlet garment, due to the process by which it was dyed, could still be validly called “purple.”
http://p089.ezboard.com/fsabdiscussionboardcontradictions.showMessage?topicID=1672.topic

Robertson "various shades of purple and scarlet in the first century and it was not always easy to distinguish the colors or tints."
http://www.apologeticspress.org/modules.php?name=Read&cat=1&itemid=146

Both scarlet and purple are acknowledged as colours of royalty. Barnes comments, "The ancients gave the name purple to any colour that has a mixture of red in it..." Wesley adds, "The Tyrian purple is said not to have been very different from scarlet."
http://www.lookinguntojesus.net/ata20051211.htm

Answer 3

So? Aren't purple and scarlet the same colors? I mean I may describe a color as blue, another teal, another turquoise, another blue-green. It just shows the Bible was not altered or revised, and these are two different people giving this account, and they are not conspiring together.

Answer 4

Again you have not placed the Scriptures in their context. Matthew - He had been beaten and the robe could easily have been "scarlet" from blood. If you read the accounts in their entirety you will see that there were actually two robes mentioned.

Answer 5

Sir, judging by the content of your recent questions, you have apparently found a list of so-called biblical contradictions and think these are all unresolved issues.

Please review the lists at the two sites below.

Answer 6

Scarlet and purple are related colours,nearly the same with little difference.

Answer 7

THIS SOUNDS LIKE EARLY AGE GANG ACTIVITY1