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This is the transcript of Mark Goodacre’s short where he gives his answer to the question. He also points out how this story shows a synoptic type of relationship between all four gospels.
Continue ReadingBelow is from the Description of Bart’s and Megan Misquoting Jesus episode No. 156 on 10/14/2025 titled John the Maverick Gospel and from his Spotlight Series at BSA by the same name. Episode Description: Why does the Gospel of John leave out Jesus’ baptism, the virgin birth, and the parables so vital in the synoptic […]
Continue ReadingMark Goodacre’s NT Pod Episode 104 presents places in the NRSV and NRSVue that translate the same word in the synoptics and John differently, thereby hiding examples of them being the same and in some cases, creating false positives. The transcript of his 15-minute talk is in his directory in DropBox. That transcript was uploaded […]
Continue ReadingThis post provides links to scholars’ positions regarding the author of John using the 3 synoptics. Video by Mark Goodacre before his book The Fourth Synoptic Gospel: John’s Knowledge of Matthew, Mark, and Luke was published. Based on my transcript of Goodacre’s video, ChatGPT was asked to summarize it using the prompts and they resulted […]
Continue ReadingExtracts below are from Bart Ehrman’s post: Mark: The First Gospel in 19th Century Research dated February 8, 2019. Over the years, three arguments have proved widely convincing for establishing Mark’s priority to Matthew and Luke: Patterns of Agreement – The reason then that Matthew and Luke rarely agree against Mark in the wording of […]
Continue ReadingIn the Patreon Zoom Meeting on 11/30/2024, James Tabor pointed out numerous synoptic scriptures where Matthew’s rendition of Mark is summarized, expanded, or simplified when compared to Luke and Luke is often verbatim of Mark. That is, Luke uses Mark with minimal edits but Matthew rewrites his sources. Two examples are in the following two […]
Continue ReadingThe italicized paragraphs below are from the transcript of Mark Goodacre’s podcast NT Pod 104: The Synoptic Translation Problem His talk “investigates a problem in English translations of the Gospels. The translations frequently mangle the agreements and disagreements between the Synoptic Gospels and between the Synoptics and John.” The transcript is in his DropBox folder […]
Continue ReadingBart Ehrman’s Post Jesus’ Death in Mark and Luke, September 10, 2012. Excerpt – Luke, then, changed Mark’s account both because he had a different view of Jesus going to his death and because he wanted his readers to take away something different from the account. It is a real mistake to think that Mark […]
Continue ReadingThe Synoptic Gospel Parallels Chart with John The Gospel parallel charts are repeated here where necessary to give a continuous series of references in canonical order for each of the four gospels. The bold type in the tables indicates the verses in order for each gospel. For example, pericopes that are identical except for the difference in […]
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