Did Matthew copy from Luke? His genealogical tree does not agree with Luke's.[69] He betrays in his story of the birth at Bethlehem no knowledge of the fact that Joseph's home was originally at Nazareth. This latter place he first mentions in ii, 23, as the place to which Joseph went upon his return from Egypt. Matthew has a greater interest in John the Baptist than has Luke, as is indicated by his fuller treatment of the fact and circumstances of his death, contrasted with Luke's leaving him in prison undisposed of. Yet Matthew does not employ the material concerning the preaching of John, which Luke has embodied in his iii, 10-14. Matthew makes a specialty of the sayings of Jesus, yet omits many that Luke contains. In short, the reason for denying that Matthew copied from Luke is the impossibility, upon that hypothesis, of explaining the omissions of Lucan material from Matthew's Gospel, and the very great divergences between the two Gospels where such divergences would not be expected with either one using the other as an exemplar. The same argument which refutes Matthew's use of Luke refutes Luke's use of Matthew. But it may be added, that upon either of these hypotheses it becomes impossible to explain the changes which appear to have been made by both Matthew and Luke in the material common to them, both in its wording and its order. If Matthew copied from Luke, he would naturally have followed his order, which he does not do. Or, deviating from that order for obvious reasons, he would naturally return to it when those reasons no longer prevailed, which he does not do. Or if Luke copied from Matthew, he could hardly have inserted a genealogical tree which is at variance with Matthew's, in the unnatural place where it now is, as against the natural place in which he found it in Matthew. Nor could he, when he had the Sermon on the Mount before him in the form in which Matthew gives it, break it up into little pieces and scatter it up and down thruout his Gospel. Moreover, in the sayings common to Matthew and Luke it is now one and now the other who preserves what we must consider the most original reading; as when Matthew says, "Cleanse first the inside of the cup," and Luke in place of this says, "Give alms of that which is within." But again it is not Matthew but Luke who gives the more original form of a saying; as when Luke says "Blessed are ye poor," and Matthew says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit."