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Likeness In The Gospels Of Mark And Luke 6: 6-11

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Immediately students of the Gospels will recognize the wording has impressive similarities in three of the four Gospels. Thus they are called Synoptic (συνοπτική) meaning “seen together” Observing the exercise this week students will find particular likeness in the Gospels of Matthew 12:9-14, Mark 3:1-6, and Luke 6:6-11 which immediately causes them to take into consideration if each author of the Synoptic based there material from the same source. Moreover, did Luke and Mark gather their work form Matthew or did Matthew and Mark utilize Luke’s encounters for their writings. In true Greek origin, the authors start each passage with almost exact words i.e. Mark and Luke wrote “And he entered into the synagogue” and Matthew’s account was described as “And he came to their synagogue.” Additionally consider Sabbath, the authors used this word for a combination of eight times with four of them written precisely “lawful on the Sabbath.” One noticeable difference in this exercise is Matthew choose to include a parable concerning sheep, where Mark and Luke omitted this. …show more content…

Matthew used seventy-seven words to express his account and Luke used seventy-eight words to express his account. Additionally, Luke chose to use two words different from Matthew i.e. Matthew used “seem,” Luke chose to use “begin” instead and Luke added the word “even” in front of adjective. Since evaluating the Synoptic, exercise’s one and two, readers could conclude there are such similar ties between Matthew and Luke Mark pulls from these two, thus presenting a significant argument for the

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