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JoyJuice · 07-03-2003, 12:30 AM

In actually sitting down and reading the Gospels straight through rather than snipeds, I see on more than one occasion doublets, instances and parables that are told twice, in Luke. What's the deal?

alkech

Peter Kirby · 07-03-2003, 12:38 AM

Some of them can be explained by the use of multiple sources. Werner Georg Kümmel writes (in The Two-Source Hypothesis: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Bellinzoni, pp. 232-233):

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The decisive evidence for a common, written source for Matthew and Luke is offered by the doublets, or double traditions (double traditions are texts presented by both evangelists, but in different forms; doublets are texts which one evangelist presents twice). It is noteworthy that Luke reports the sending of disciples twice: Lk. 9 and Lk. 10, the first time in parallel with Mk. 6:7-13 and the second in parallel with Mt. 10. Of course, in Lk. 10:1 there are seventy disciples, but as Lk. 22:35 shows, the saying in Lk. 10:4 was originally addressed to the twelve. Mt. 10:1-16 makes contact alternately with Mk. 6:7-13 and Lk. 10:1-12. Similarly there are doublets in Matthew, some of which parallel Mark while others parallel Luke's sayings material, for example, Mt. 18:8-9, and 5:29-30; 19:9 and 5:32.
Furthermore, there is a string of sayings of Jesus appearing twice in Matthew and Luke, once in a setting which Mark also has, a second time in a sayings setting which is found only in Matthew and Luke. The most important examples of this are:

a) "He who has, to him will be given" (Mt. 13:12; Mk. 4:25; Lk. 8:18; cf. Mt. 25:29; Lk. 19:26).

b) "If any man will follow me, he must deny himself" (Mt. 16:24-25; Mk. 8:34-35; Lk. 9:23-24; cf. Mt. 10:38-39; Lk. 14:27; 17:33).

c) The eschatological retribution for the rejection of Jesus (Mt. 16:27; Mk 8:38; Lk. 9:23-24; cf. Mt. 10:32; Lk. 12:8-9).

d) Persecution of the disciples on account of Jesus (Mt. 24:9, 13; Mk. 13:9, 13, Lk. 21:12, 17; cf. Mt 10:19-20, 22; Lk. 12:11-12).

e) Mk. 3:23-30 is lacking in Luke; but Lk. 11:17-23 offers a different version of the defense of Jesus against the charge of complicity with the demons. Mt. 12:25-31, however, recalls alternately Mk. 3 and Lk. 11.

When this evidence of doublets and double traditions in Matthew and Luke is placed beside the fact that Mark presents a single doublet (Mk. 9:35; 10:43), it is incontrovertibly proved that Matthew and Luke must have used a second source in addition to Mark.

Take that for what it's worth.

best,
Peter Kirby

judge · 07-03-2003, 12:49 AM

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Originally posted by alkech
In actually sitting down and reading the Gospels straight through rather than snipeds, I see on more than one occasion doublets, instances and parables that are told twice, in Luke. What's the deal?

alkech

Jesus seemed to use the same teachings over and over.
Sometimes he drew on imagery from the prophets and explained their fulfillment.

Other times his teachings contained puns and wordplays which are still there if we look at the Aramaic version of the gospels.
This may have made themeasier for His audience to remember.

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