I think john is emphasizing the feat because next chapter Jesus is going to wash his disciples feet
and so mary the sister of martha and lazarus actually provide a model of that
so what do you say to the person who says wow they take these kind
of liberties that we're you're talking about here um how can we trust anything
well when you look at ancient biographies you see kind of the range of what kind of
liberties they take and how much they take and you deal with this in crystal biography yes
yeah so when when you make the comparisons i mean i think we can we can kind of pinpoint
what kind of things we can expect of them to take liberties on and what kind of things we
would not expect them to take liberties on i would not expect them to make up events
in the life of jesus i would not expect them to make up new teachings that were contrary to the
teachings of jesus i mean if they're reporting a teaching of jesus they may change the wording
nobody had tape recorders anyway so you know paraphrase was actually standard practice
in fact you're supposed to paraphrase more than the gospels actually absolutely it did
theirs is unique what they did almost copy and paste them yeah yeah i mean some it was so close
you know an elite level they could have been accused of plagiarism but i
think on a popular level it wouldn't have been considered that but still it was uh
they're so close but they do change the wording and uh what we can what we can expect though is if
if you've got a teaching of jesus jesus preaching about the kingdom of god jesus or or parables
i mean it doesn't have to be verbatim from one gospel to another it's not
but you're going to have the same the same basic story there's a a couple cases where
where it looks like it's been changed very much or it's um jesus used a similar storyline more
than once which i think is probably the case like in the minus and the talents
i mean there are enough differences between you know the one and only but there is editorial
fatigue in luke's version right editorial fatigue because yeah well we don't have to get into
that now it seems to me that luke is familiar either with matthew's version and there's some
cross-pollination of some details there something is going on you do have cross-pollination in the
anointing of jesus feet i do think there were two i think there were two anointings
you do yeah i think i don't think there's nothing bracket bracket luke well no that's that's the
one i think is different oh okay i got you in luke seven yeah yeah that the sinful woman there is not
yeah that seems different to me too so and you think john maybe have cross-pollinated the two
yeah yeah that makes sense and i think john has a good reason because rather than saying well she
did both the head and the feet you think that john well if you're in the prone position the
way people reclined you know you got some left over you may as well use it but anyway but no
um i think john is emphasizing the feet because um next chapter jesus is going to wash his
disciples feet and so mary the sister of martha and lazarus uh actually provide a model of that
that you know she she takes care of his feet and he and then he does that turns around and
does that for his disciples interesting for us well thanks so much i hope that's helpful
you