On the factual harmony of the gospels (Augustine)

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There is no discrepancy in the Gospels as to facts, although one tells one detail which another passes over or describes differently; rather, they supplement each other when compared, and thus give direction to the mind of the reader.

Augustine of Hippo to Hesychius, c. 419 (no. 199) in Saint Augustine Letters: Volume IV (c. 420-30), trans. Wilfred Parsons, The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation, vol. 30 (Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1955), p. 376.
 
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