101 The foregoing three alternatives are those noted by Dr. Sanday (_Outlines_, p. 199 f.), between which, he says, “the data do not allow us to decide absolutely”. 102 Referring to the Evangelist the Jew objects: “He says begat out of Mary” (cf. Conybeare, HJ., vol. i, no. 1, p. 100). 103 We ought to add that Allen leaves open the possibility that the parenthesis may be a later addition, and that the original text may have been “And Joseph begat Jesus”. “It seems probable ... that the text underlying S1 is the nearest approach now extant to the original Greek, and it must remain possible that even here the relative clause is an insertion” (p. 8). 104 Cf. Jülicher, INT. (Eng. Tr.), p. 367: “In my opinion, both took up their pens more or less simultaneously, each unaware of the other’s work, and both actuated essentially by the same motive, i.e. that of bestowing a Gospel upon the Church which should be at once complete, and well adapted both to refute unjust accusations from outside and to edify the believers themselves.” 105 This appears in the fact that the First Gospel implies, as we have seen, that the doctrine had already been known to its readers for some time. 106 Cf. Usener to the same effect, EB., col. 3351. 107 Cf. Loofs, _What is the Truth about Jesus Christ?_, p. 92 f.: “Legends arise much more quickly than is assumed by liberal theology since Strauss”. 108 So Prof. Percy Gardner, quoted in _Faith and Freedom_, p. 168.