An additional thought. The solution you have propsed is another way of saying that the author(ostensibly Luke) forgot or ommitted important details that he saw as necessary enough to include them in his second work. Surely if the same author wrote all the words of both books it would be asier to harmonise them. The writer would reasonably have explained how the 40 day delay fit into the Luke narrative that precludes it as written. This also would not explain why Matt. says these events (Apostles first contact with risen jesus, overcomming of doubts, and commision to preach to world) took place in Galilee not Jerusalem as Luke claims. Again it is not a problem if the writer did not intend his work to be read as history as much as an inspiring tale about his "Savior".
Did Jesus meet them in Galilee? Contradiction
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Thanks Hooberus for reviving this thread and providing a quite entertaining link -- let the reader appreciate.
Luke's special agenda (to make Jerusalem the start of the Church at Pentecost) can be seen, not only from the positive command in 24:49, but also from his conspicuous avoidance of the reference to a Galilean apparition as found in Mark 14:28 and 16:7. This imo shatters Holding's poor attempt at harmonisation.