I was recently looking at the story of Jesus being tempted by the devil just before the start of his recorded ministry. A very condensed account is found in Mark’s gospel (Mark 1:12-13) but Matthew (Matthew 4:1-11) and Luke (Luke 4:1-13) have fuller accounts.
A detail I don’t remember noticing before is that, although Matthew and Luke mention the same three exchanges of words, they don’t mention them in the same order. Both start with hunger (Satan says, “Turn these stones to bread,” and Jesus quotes from Dt 8:3, “Man does not live by bread alone…”) but the next two switch around between the two gospels. I can imagine preachers who just read one of them being tempted themselves to work out cunning schemes of how A leads to B and then on to C but one of the lessons from looking wider must surely be that, in this case, the details of the sequence are not significant.
In all cases, it is good to look at details when studying a subject but I think it is true to say that sometimes they can be misleading or, as the saying goes, you end up not seeing the wood for the trees.