You're not bound to tell it with the same wording
every time as long as the substance is there and and you can leave out details
you can include details that you know from somewhere else like if you're talking about
winston churchill you know it's you don't have just one source you have other sources for that
but let's talk about the differences you know when we look at the synoptic problem and we for most of
us large majority mark and priority mark is the first gospel and matthew and luke use mark as
their primary source and supplement mark you'd say that's the majority position right easily
95 of scholars would you say critical new testament scholars let's say probably at
least 90 percent at least 90 okay maybe 95 it's but even if you go with matthew priority
you're still there is so much similarities that all the arguments still apply
you have an interdependence of sources that are used between matthew mark and luke yeah
we see jesus did so many things john says that the world itself couldn't contain the books that
would be written so why do matthew mark and luke overlap so much when you know they could have so
many other stories yeah yeah so all right so let's just assume mark and priority if a person wants to
assume matthew and priority they can do that and just but the same thing is there you've got luke
using matthew you've got mark using matthew and we can see how they change their primary source
give us an example well an easy and obvious one is kingdom of heaven and kingdom of god
oh i mean i mean mark always speaks of kingdom of god
matthew in i think there's just uh three passages four examples something like that
uh where he keeps kingdom of god everywhere else it's kingdom of heaven and what do you
think it was originally it's a no-brainer that i mean these are the same incidents
well jesus may have been talking about kingdom of heaven maybe matthew knew that but
you know matthew i think is using mark and mark has a an audience that wouldn't have
any idea what a kingdom of heaven was yeah so you know it makes sense mark has kingdom of god
and jesus could have spoken of it that way too probably did speak of it that way more i mean john
which may be independent the the couple times john has it is kingdom of god
so you know maybe uh kingdom of god was was the more common usage of jesus
but what's what's the point i mean unless it's unless you're expecting it to be verbatim
then i don't see the problem with that yeah now when i when i first became a christian
i was converted out of atheism i knew nothing about the gospels and so first time through
i'm reading matthew get to the end of it very satisfied jesus gets crucified he rises again
then i read mark he gets crucified and rises again again i'm like how often is this going to happen
i didn't realize i thought it was going to be all written in chronological order you know
so i didn't know but but and yet he was reading homer at age 12. yeah so you know
you you're christians you're smarter than some of us but anyway no but i'm christian now but uh so
eventually though i mean i remember before i went off to to bible college and this was a
fairly conservative you know the symbols of god bible college pentecostal so before i went off
there it was like you know i knew that there were differences among the gospels and i wanted to know
the the bible so well that if somebody quoted to me a verse i could not only tell them okay well
this particular idea appears in luke 21 mark 13 and matthew 24 jesus eschatological discourse
but i could tell them which one based on the variations no i i'm not sure i'm that good
but um but that's what i wanted to be able to do because i knew that there were variations
you know anybody who tells the same story you know i mean if you tell the story of goldilocks
or if you tell a historical story yeah you know you're not bound to tell it with the same wording
every time as long as the substance is there and and you can leave out details
you can include details that you know from somewhere else like if you're talking about
winston churchill you know it's you don't have just one source you have other sources for that so
anyway that didn't bother me they do change some things like the centurion at the cross yeah right
uh truly this was the son of god is that mark that's mark and matthew
and matthew although the matthew's the centurion and those who are with him okay
and luke surely this was a righteous man yeah this man was innocent right what's going on there well
luke wants to emphasize jesus innocence um you've got that emphasized
several times a number of times uh i mean it's in all the gospels but you've got it emphasized more
in in luke's gospel especially luke 23 but then also toward the end of acts luke's second
volume you have that emphasized with paul and it's a it's a major part of luke's apologetic
now historians back then could write uh now of course today we don't like apologists right but no
but back then uh you know you had apologetic historians who wrote for apologetic purposes
but just because you have a purpose doesn't mean you're not going to draw on real facts so
um luke is doing apologetic historiography he's he's making a case for for particular reasons
um and yet i don't see a problem with him doing that because if he's the son of god
that logically entails he's also righteous yeah at least from a jewish perspective
and a christian perspective so you know luke is just narrowing it down
if he's the son of god okay here's here's what luke wants to emphasize
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