“Now what father is there among you who, when his son asks for bread, would give him a rock instead? … Comment
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In Luke, Friend in Need and Fathers Give Good Gifts are part of a larger discourse on prayer (Luke 11:1-13), all of which the author of Luke copied en bloc from Anth., apart from two important exceptions. … Second, the author of Luke removed the Persistent Widow parable from Anth.’… Luke’sτί
Luke’s version of Choosing the Twelve appears to have undergone a fair degree of Greek editing. … The fact that Luke’s version of Choosing the Twelve is surrounded by FR pericope also indicates that it was taken from FR, since the author of Luke tended to copy his sources in large blocks…. — wp:paragraph –>
Mark’s version of the Choosing the Twelve pericope appears to be a paraphrase of Luke’s. … On the whole Luke’s wording in L1 is quite Hebraic.
6. … Cf., e.g., Bultmann, 117; Kloppenborg, 157-158; Nolland, Luke, 2:857; Catchpole, 248 n. 56; Bovon, 2:513. … and 2) Luke’s dependence upon the Gospel of Mark…. The author of Luke changed “so it will be in the days of the Son of Man” to “it will be like that in the day the Son of Man is revealed” (Luke 17:30). … Hence they conclude that the non-Markan source common to Matthew and Luke (usually designated “Q”) lacked a version of Lesson of Lot’s Wife and that the author of Luke must have extracted Lesson of Lot’s Wife from the Markan eschatological discourse and inserted it into his Son of Man discourse in Luke 17.
Indications supporting our suspicion that the author of Luke adapted the Persistent Widow parable to a new context are found in Luke 18:1 (L2-3) and in Luke 18:8 (L27-28). … Ps. 68:6), will deliver swift and just judgment when they pray…. See Nolland, Luke, 2:870….
In Luke the Friend in Need simile is situated in a discourse on prayer.
The authors of Luke, Mark and Matthew are in agreement in placing Son of Man’s Coming in an extended discourse that Jesus delivered in response to inquiries about Jesus’ prediction of the Temple’s destruction. In Luke, Son of Man’s Coming (Luke 21:25-27) follows directly after Yerushalayim Besieged (Luke 21:20-24). … On the Markan and Matthean insertions into the framework of the prophecy preserved in Luke 21, see the introduction to the “Destruction and Redemption” complex…. On the Anth. block of Son of Man material preserved in Luke 17, see Days of the Son of Man, under the “Story Placement” subheading.
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The Days of Noah
The Days of Lot
6. … Nevertheless, we believe it is more likely that the author of Luke copied Days of the Son of Man from the Anthology (Anth.) rather than FR. Our reasons for positing Luke’s reliance upon Anth. for Days of the Son of Man include the great ease with which Luke’s version of the pericope reverts to Hebrew and the fact that Days of the Son of Man belongs to a large block of thematically related material. Such thematically related blocks in Luke are typically derived from Anth., as was the case with the block of John the Baptist material in Luke 7:18-35,On the derivation of Luke’s John the Baptist block from Anth., see the introduction to the “Yohanan the Immerser and the Kingdom of Heaven” complex.
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The Tower Builder and King Going to War similes, which are unique to the Gospel of Luke, appear sandwiched between the second and third statement describing persons who cannot be Jesus’ disciple in the Demands of Discipleship saying…. We believe the author of Luke spliced the twin Tower Builder and King Going to War similes into the Demands of Discipleship saying from another source…. — wp:block {“ref”:18046} /–>
Conjectured Stages of Transmission
As we discussed in the “Story Placement” section above, the author of Luke spliced the Tower Builder and King Going to War similes into the Demands of Discipleship saying from another source.
The Gospel of Luke presents the Friend in Need simile as a commentary on the Lord’s Prayer. We believe that the placement of the Friend in Need simile in Luke reflects the position of this pericope in Luke’s source, the Anthology (Anth.), from which the author of Luke copied nearly the entire “How to Pray” complex en bloc.Two changes the author of Luke made to the “How to Pray” complex as it appeared in Anth. were, first, to replace Anth.’… Knox (2:60-61), who conjectured that the authors of Luke and Matthew shared a tract on prayer, which Luke reproduced en bloc, but which Matthew excerpted in the Sermon on the Mount.
Matt. 12:46-50; Mark 3:20-21, 31-35; Luke 8:19-21 (Huck 85, 89, 104; Aland 116, 121, 135; Crook 135, 143, 157)For abbreviations and bibliographical references, see “Introduction to ‘The Life of Yeshua: A Suggested Reconstruction.'”… Comment
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Regarding the placement of Yeshua, His Mother and Brothers, there is a peculiar relationship between the Gospels of Luke and Mark, which we can see by placing their arrangements side by side:
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Yeshua, His Mother and Brothers (Part 1) (Mark 3:20-21)
The Finger of God (Mark 3:22-30)
Yeshua, His Mother and Brothers (Part 2) (Mark 3:31-35)
; 5) theft; 6) perverting of justice—these six ordinances were understood to have been revealed to Adam—and finally, 7) the prohibition, revealed to Noah, against eating from the limb of a living animal (b. … Zar. 8:4-6 (473, 12-25). … Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews (1947), 5:292, n. 147; cf. 6:388, n. 16.
6. … This agreed-upon arrangement of pericopae is due to Mark’s acceptance of Luke’s story order and Matthew’s subsequent acceptance of the story order in Mark. This arrangement of pericopae probably originated with Luke; it probably does not go back to either of Luke’s pre-synoptic sources: the Anthology (Anth.) or the First Reconstruction (FR)…. A few instances of such polishing on the part of the author of Luke will be mentioned in the Comment section below. The author of Mark based his version of Call of Levi on Luke’s, but he reworked it in his characteristically expansive and periphrastic style.
6. … Then, in Luke 9:9, the author of Luke placed on the tetrarch’s lips the admission that he had beheaded John the Baptist, an admission that comes to Luke’s readers as a shock, since the last time Luke had mentioned John (Luke 7:18-23), the Baptist had not only been alive, but he was at liberty to send emissaries to Jesus with questions about the role Jesus was to play in the eschatological redemption….
The few details the author of Luke revealed concerning the Baptist’s demise raise questions about the source(s) of his information. … Thus, Luke’s information on the Baptist’s imprisonment and subsequent execution probably came from some definite source (or sources).
The sparse details the author of Luke revealed about the Baptist’s demise hint that they came from a source that contained more information than the author of Luke cared to disclose.
The placement of Yohanan the Immerser’s Eschatological Discourse in Luke’s Gospel, by contrast, makes good sense. … Moreover, we have found that the author of Luke, throughout his third chapter, followed the order of pericopae as they appeared in his source, the Anthology (Anth.). We have, accordingly, accepted Luke’s pericope order in our reconstruction of the Hebrew Life of Yeshua…. — wp:block {“ref”:18046} /–> Conjectured Stages of Transmission
Despite evidence of a fair amount of redactional activity in the opening verse of Yohanan the Immerser’s Eschatological Discourse (Luke 3:15), the numerous Lukan-Matthean minor agreements against Mark in this pericope, as well as the overall ease with which Luke’s version reverts to Hebrew, suggest that the author of Luke copied Yohanan the Immerser’s Eschatological Discourse from his Hebraic-Greek source, Anth.
6. … The style of this pericope strongly suggests that Luke copied the Nain story from Anthology (Luke’s Source 1)…. (L22-23; Luke 7:16).This passage is so Hebraic that our Greek Reconstruction is nearly identical with the text of Luke. …
Since this story appears only in Luke, is it merely Luke’s creation, or does this pericope come from a reliable historical source?
Matt. 19:16-30; Mark 10:17-31; Luke 18:18-30 (Huck 189; Aland 254-255; Crook 294-295)For abbreviations and bibliographical references, see “Introduction to ‘The Life of Yeshua: A Suggested Reconstruction.'” … Comment
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Robert Lindsey believed that the Rich Man Declines the Kingdom of Heaven incident in the conjectured Hebrew Life of Yeshua the Rich Man Declines the Kingdom of Heaven story was only the first segment of a longer literary complex that originally included the Demands of Discipleship discourse (Matt. 10:37-38; Luke 14:25-27, 33) and the Hidden Treasure and Priceless Pearl parables (Matt. 13:44-46). … Lindsey, JRL, 94; idem, “From Luke to Mark to Matthew: A Discussion of the Sources of Markan ‘Pick-ups’ and the Use of a Basic Non-canonical Source by All the Synoptists,” under the subheading “Restoration of
According to the widely-held theory of Markan Priority, which I had no reason at that time to doubt, Matthew and Luke used this Gospel as one of their principal sources. According to this theory, Matthew and Luke wrote independently of each other and used not only the Gospel of Mark, but also a second common source usually called “Q.” … Triple Tradition
Lindsey concluded that Luke was the first of the Synoptic Gospels, that Mark reworked Luke, and that Matthew is based on Mark and one of the sources upon which Luke is based…. According to Luke’s account, the Pharisees discuss what they might do with Jesus (Luke6:11), the point being that there was nothing the Pharisees could do since Jesus had not violated Sabbath prohibitions. Luke’s account resembles the story of the first-century B.C.E. … In Mark’s version of the Healing of Man with Withered Hand, however, the Pharisees plot with the Herodians how they might destroy Jesus (Mark 3:6).Given the types and volume of change Mark introduces into Gospel stories (see below), one wonders whether οἱ Ἡρῳδιανοί (“the Herodians”; Mark 3:6; 12:13 ) are a Markan invention.
