Did Jesus Make a Crucial Historical Blunder in the Gospel of Mark? By Hank Hanegraaff One of the reasons cited by famed New Testament scholar and bestselling author Bart Ehrman for his transition from fundamentalist Christian to fundamentalist agnostic is that the gospel of Mark is riddled with factual and historical errors. A prominent example is that Jesus said that David and his men ate the showbread when Abiathar was the high priest. In reality, argues Ehrman, Ahimelech (Abiathar’s father) w