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Despite its absence in the Gospel of Mark, the authors of Luke and Matthew placed Yohanan the Immerser Demands Repentance in precisely the same position in their respective Gospels.
Yeshua, His Mother and Brothers
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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:
Yohanan the Immerser’s Question
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The author of Luke placed Yohanan the Immerser’s Question immediately following Widow’s Son in Nain (Luke 7:11-17).
Lord’s Prayer
We have placed this reconstructed complex in the section of the conjectured Hebrew Life of Yeshua entitled “Calling and Training Disciples.”
The Kingdom of Heaven Is Increasing
Matt. 11:12-15; Luke 16:16
(Huck 65, 176; Aland 107, 226; Crook 125, 272)For abbreviations and bibliographical references, see “Introduction to ‘The Life of Yeshua: A Suggested Reconstruction.'” Revised: 12 December 2022
מִימֵי יוֹחָנָן הַמַּטְבִּיל וְעַד עַכְשָׁיו מַלְכוּת שָׁמַיִם פּוֹרֶצֶת וּפוֹרְצִים פּוֹרְצִים בָּהּ שֶׁכָּל הַנְּבִיאִים וְאַף הַתּוֹרָה עַד יוֹחָנָן מִתְנַבְּאִים
“Since Yohanan the Immerser, and continuing into the present time, God’s redeeming reign has begun to increase, and the number of participants in his reign is on the rise.
“For all the prophets—and even the Torah—down to Yohanan tell of the coming redemption. But now the redemption is happening before your very eyes!”This translation is a dynamic rendition of our reconstruction of the conjectured Hebrew source that stands behind the Greek of the Synoptic Gospels.
Completion
You have my word that you will not have run out of places in Israel by the time the Son of Man comes…. The second subcategory consists of three versions of a promise that some “standing here will not taste death” until some sort of revelatory experience takes place (in Luke 9:27 and Mark 9:1 it is seeing the Kingdom of God; in Matt. 16:28 it is seeing the Son of Man coming in his kingdom). … The third subcategory includes the Lukan, Markan and Matthean versions of a statement in Jesus’ eschatological discourse which asserts the validity of the predictions Jesus has made by claiming that “this generation will not pass away until everything has taken place” (Matt. 24:34 ∥ Mark 13:30 ∥ Luke 21:32)…. First, all the versions of Completion share a basic underlying structure: something will not cease until something else takes place.
Widow’s Son in Nain
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We have placed the Widow’s Son in Nain pericope in a section entitled “Teaching and Healing in Yehudah,” a period early in Jesus’ career. …
Crucial Issues
- Where did the event described in this pericope take place?
Son of Man’s Coming
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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.
Calamities in Yerushalayim
Luke 13:1-5 (Huck 162; Aland 207; Crook 244)For abbreviations and bibliographical references, see “Introduction to ‘The Life of Yeshua: A Suggested Reconstruction.'”
Preparations for Eating the Passover Lamb
ReconstructionThe impetus for this commentary and reconstruction was the Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research’s monthly seminar that took place on July 7, 2008 (Attending: Gary Alley; Sharon Alley; Leehee Aynav; Guido Baltes; David Bivin; Randall Buth; Akiva Cohen; Yair Furstenberg; Malcolm Lowe; Halvor Ronning), and the subsequent written discussion that Bivin had with Baltes, Buth, Cohen and Lowe who responded to his written summary of the seminar discussions.
Yeshua’s Testing
Having identified Jesus as God’s Isaac, as it were, Jesus is then described as enduring a series of trials that resemble the trials that, according to Jewish tradition, Abraham and Isaac endured on their way to the place of sacrifice.
Heaven and Earth Pass Away
How to cite this article:
Joshua N. Tilton and David N. Bivin, “Heaven and Earth Pass Away,” The Life of Yeshua: A Suggested Reconstruction (Jerusalem Perspective, 2023) .
Call of Levi
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The Call of Levi story is a Triple Tradition (TT) pericope, which all three synoptic evangelists place at an early stage of Jesus’ career. All three evangelists also agree to place the Healing a Paralyzed Man narrative (Matt. 9:1-8; Mark 2:1-12; Luke 5:17-26) immediately before the Call of Levi story, and to place Why Yeshua’s Disciples Do Not Fast (Matt. 9:14-17; Mark 2:18-22; Luke 5:33-39) immediately afterward. … We have placed the entire complex within the section of the conjectured Hebrew Life of Yeshua entitled “Calling and Training Disciples.”
A Voice Crying
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In the Gospels of Luke and Matthew the pericope we have entitled A Voice Crying is placed subsequent to their respective infancy narratives.
LOY Excursus: Mark’s Editorial Style
Revised: 9 November 2022Revised with the assistance of Joshua N.