Sources of the Synoptic GospelsPatton, Carl S. (Carl Safford)
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Sources of the Synoptic Gospels
Patton, Carl S. (Carl Safford)
Bible. Gospels -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Characteristic of Luke is his "He was continuing all night in prayer."[28]
The addition by Matthew and Luke of the words ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ (τὸν ἀδελφὸν
αὐτοῦ) is held by some to indicate their use of a Marcan text different
from ours. The order of the names is not the same in any two of the three
lists. Both Matthew and Mark avoid an anacoluthon of Mark in his vs. 16,
and omit the appellative "Boanerges," with its translation. Matthew and
Luke follow Mark in naming Matthew, tho in their account of his call in Mt
ix, 13, and Lk v, 27, Luke follows Mark in calling him Levi. Luke changes
Mark's "Simon the Canaanite" to "Simon the Zealot." Matthew alone gives
the name of Lebbaeus, Mark alone says Thaddeus, Luke alone names Judas the
son of James. No simple explanation suggests itself as covering all these
deviations. Matthew or Luke or both may have been influenced by a similar
list of names in Q or some other non-Marcan source; but that both of them
are here following Mark is rendered practically certain by their addition
of the appended parenthetical statement concerning Judas, with which all
three accounts close.
THE PHARISAIC ACCUSATION AND JESUS' DEFENSE
(Mk iii, 20-30; Mt xii, 22-37; Lk xi, 14-23)
The discussion of this section is complicated by the presence of the
section in both Mark and Q, and is therefore postponed to a later
time.[29]
THE TRUE BROTHERHOOD OF JESUS; THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER; THE PURPOSE OF
THE PARABLES
(Mk iii, 31-iv, 12; Mt xii, 46-xiii, 15; Lk viii, 4-10, 19-21)
Luke has done more than Matthew to turn Mark's narrative into good Greek,
tho Matthew has also improved it. The agreement of Matthew and Luke in the
addition of αὐτὸν in Mt xiii, 4, and Lk viii, 5, where it does not occur
in their exemplar (Mk iv, 4), is sometimes held to indicate a text of Mark
containing this word. The hypothesis of assimilation seems simpler; or in
this case even accidental agreement would not be strange. The insertion
of πάλιν in Mk iv, 1, not in Matthew and Luke, has been suggested by Weiss
to be the work of an editor who saw the confused character of the
geographical references since Mk iii, 7.[30]
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER
(Mk iv, 13-20; Mt xiii, 18-23; Lk viii, 11-15)
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