While both the gospels and Josephus refer to Herod Antipas killing John the Baptist, they differ on the details and the motive.

While Josephus identifies the location of the imprisonment of John as Machaerus, southeast of the mouth of the Jordan river, the gospels mention no location for the place where John was imprisoned.

Differences between the gospels suggest that Luke is referring to a different episode from Mark and Matthew, and Klyne Snodgrass writes that " While one cannot exclude that Luke has joined two originally separate narratives, evidence for this is not convincing.

While the 2SH remains the most popular explanation for the origins of the synoptic gospels, two questions, the existence of the so-called " minor agreements ", and problems with the hypothesis of Q, continue at the centre of discussion over its explanatory power.

While unique sources, such as M, L, or Semitic first editions, are interesting for form-critical purposes, they are quite peripheral to the " synoptic problem " as to how the canonical gospels are interrelated.

While the 2SH remains the most popular explanation for the origins of the synoptic gospels, the existence of the " minor agreements " have raised concerns.

While Koester argues that these show a tradition before the other gospels, Craig Evans sees these as drawing from the other Gospels just as Justin Martyr did.

While the exact phrase " baptism with the Holy Spirit " is not found in the New Testament, two forms of the phrase are found in the canonical gospels using the verb " baptize ".

While the other three gospels mention that the stone had been rolled away, John only states that it was moved.

While the Four Document Hypothesis remains a popular explanation for the origins of the synoptic gospels, the question is how could a major and respected source, used in a canonical gospel, totally disappear?

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

While roleplaying for testing is not too well understood at the present time, it represents one of the major uses of this procedure.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

While the earliest cuisine of the United States was influenced by indigenous American Indians, the cuisine of the thirteen colonies or the culture of the antebellum American South ; the overall culture of the nation, its gastronomy and the growing culinary arts became ever more influenced by its changing ethnic mix and immigrant patterns from the 18th and 19th centuries unto the present.

While he told staff that he had bumped into a suitcase, the media briefly reported it as a sign of cutaneous anthrax and a possible link to the 2001 anthrax attacks, although FBI later addressed the rumors stating that " Exhaustive testing did not support that anthrax was present anywhere the hijackers had been.

While " there is an intentional editorial unity with a cohesive purpose and message in the canonical form of the book ," Job contains many separate elements, some of which may have had an independent existence prior to being incorporated into the present text.

While catatonia is only identified as a symptom of schizophrenia in present psychiatric classifications, it is increasingly recognized as a syndrome with many faces.

While perhaps lightly competing against each other, they will present a unified front ( sometimes called a trade association or industry trade group ) to the government in requesting subsidies or aid or regulation.

While most elements are generally viewed as stable, a small amount of natural transformation of one element to another also occurs in the present time, through decay of radioactive elements as well as other natural nuclear processes.

While the economic underperformance of the Maritime economy has been long lasting, it has not always been present.

While at the NIH, Venter learned of a technique for rapidly identifying all of the mRNAs present in a cell and began to use it to identify human brain genes.

While individual equations present a kind of puzzle and have been considered throughout history, the formulation of general theories of Diophantine equations ( beyond the theory of quadratic forms ) was an achievement of the twentieth century.

While shopping for a present in London he accidentally bumps into Carrie in a shop and ends up helping her select her wedding dress.

While the pending Second Chance Act which may change this, at present the only relief that an individual prosecuted in federal court may receive is a Presidential Pardon, which does not expunge the conviction, but rather grants relief from the civil disabilities that stem from it.

While the abolition of the financial rand marked the end of capital controls on Non-Residents, controls remain in place on South African Residents to the present day ( September 2012 ).

While its morphological categories have been fairly stable over time, morphological changes are present throughout, particularly in the nominal and verbal systems.

While the original Grand Guignol attempted to present naturalistic horror, the performances would seem melodramatic and heightened to today's audience.

While some limit speaking in tongues to speech addressed to God-" prayer or praise ", others claim that speech in tongues is revelation from God to the church, and when interpreted into human language by those embued with the gift of interpretation of tongues for the benefit of others present, may be considered equivalent to prophecy.

While this new career took him away from the practice of law, it was rewarding in other ways: the fees were said to yield up to $ 40, 000 ( US $ in present terms ) over the two-year term.

( While many elementary discussions of English grammar classify the present perfect as a past tense, it relates the action to the present time.

While the " historical " part of historical materialism does not cause a comprehension problem ( i. e., it means the present is explained by analysing the past ), the term materialism is more difficult.

While the range of two hellbenders may overlap, they are noted as rarely being present in the overlapping area when the other salamander is in the area.

While international trade has been present throughout much of history ( see Silk Road, Amber Road ), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries.

While technological advances have enabled the leadership process to take place in such virtual contexts, they present new challenges for leaders as well, such as the need to use technology to build relationships with followers, and influencing followers when faced with limited ( or no ) face-to-face interaction.

While spacetime can be viewed as a consequence of Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, it was first explicitly proposed mathematically by one of his teachers, the mathematician Hermann Minkowski, in a 1908 essay building on and extending Einstein's work.

While most scholars recognize historical links between Darwin's theory and forms of social Darwinism, they also maintain that social Darwinism is not a necessary consequence of the principles of biological evolution and that using biological evolution as a justification for policies of inequality amounts to committing the naturalistic fallacy.

While the fall of the Berlin Wall had broad economic, political and social impacts globally, it also had significant consequence for the local urban environment.

While the latter ruling was famously defied by Jackson, the actions of the Jackson administration were not isolated because state and federal officials had violated treaties without consequence, often attributed to military exigency, as the members of individual Native American nations were not automatically United States citizens and were rarely given standing in any U. S. court.

While the exact circumstances of his death remain unclear, his death was officially declared to be the consequence of heavy intoxication.

While remaining so in Canada, Great Britain and Ireland, the distinction has since been claimed by Spanish in the United States – probably a consequence of heavy immigration from, and increased general interest in, Latin America.

While yet a boy, Lauder suffered amputation of one of his legs, in consequence of having accidentally received a stroke from a golf ball on his knee.

While it was not our intention to injure or kill non-combatants, the reality is that on this and on a number of other occasions, that was the consequence of our actions.

While much of the environmental change occurring on Earth is suspected to be a direct consequence of the Industrial Revolution, William Ruddiman has argued that the proposed Anthropocene began approximately 8, 000 years ago with the development of farming and sedentary cultures.

While the stories have some continuity, with recurring characters and things that happen in one story having a consequence in the next one, they are on the whole separate, finished stories, not a continuing saga.

While an individual may view this situation as objectively important, because of the possibly low level of personal consequence ( vested interest ), his resultant behaviors may not be indicative of his attitude concerning the situation.

While typically the consequence of a discovered attack is the gain of material, they do not have to do this to be effective ; the tactic can be used merely to gain a tempo.

While Kuhn's paradigm shifts are a consequence of a series of conscious decisions made by scientists to pursue a neglected set of questions, Foucault's epistemes are something like the ' epistemological unconscious ' of an era ; the configuration of knowledge in a particular episteme is based on a set of fundamental assumptions that are so basic to that episteme so as to be invisible to people operating within it.

While glass does exhibit creep under the right conditions, apparent sagging in old windows may instead be a consequence of obsolete manufacturing processes, such as that used to create crown glass, which resulted in inconsistent thickness.

While the Erie enjoyed financial ups and downs, during the golden age of American railroads it was largely successful ; as a consequence of its success it was able to extend itself westward to Cleveland, Ohio and Chicago.

While blessing Kunti with a mantra by which she could call upon any god of her choice, he did not tell her the likely consequence of this incantation.

While Schiller probably deserves some of the criticism he gets, a consequence of writing too many books too quickly, he should also get credit when he does a good job.

While the roots of the split between Tyndall and Jordan was considerd to be the marriage of Jordan to Françoise Dior-who had previously been romantically involved with Tyndall-Tyndall himself stated that the rift between the two men was a consequence of an ideological clash resuting from his rejection of Jordan's endorsement of straight Nazism and his own preference for a more ' British ' solution.

While some might argue that this is a consequence of the degree of fragmentation in the bond market, I would point to options markets and European bond markets-which are similarly fragmented, but much more transparent on a pre-trade basis.

While it initially appeared that Treviso would avoid relegation despite finishing 20th as a result of forced relegations arising elsewhere as a consequence of the Serie A match-fixing scandal, Treviso were eventually relegated to Serie B on 25 July 2006 when S. S. Lazio and ACF Fiorentina's penalties were reduced by the Italian appeals court and those teams remained in Serie A.

While his career has been marked by both individual and team successes – including Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006 – he has also encountered controversy as a consequence of his on-field behaviour and friction with other personnel.

While Art Journal became notable for its honest portrayal of fine arts, the consequence of Hall's actions was the almost unsaleability of old masters such as a Raphael or a Titian.

While not the first British vessel to surrender to the continental fleet, the Nancy was perhaps the first capture of significant consequence, leading John Adams to later remark " I assert that the first American flag was hoisted by John Manley, and the first British flag was struck to him ".

While a priest, he ( with Paul, another priest ) wrote to Epiphanius of Salamis a letter, in consequence of which the latter composed his Panarion ( 374 – 376 AD ).