There seems to be a source that Matthew and Luke have in common: (maybe just oral)
The Bible's two Christmas stories told in parallel
They both mention Bethlehem, Nazareth, David, Zerubbabel and his father Shealtiel, and that Mary was betrothed to marry Joseph.
Apparently a lot of Matthew and Luke is word-for-word from Mark and
Mark is believed to have been written about 15 years before.
I think many verses in Matthew have the same wording as Mark (or at least I've heard this is the case with Luke and Mark)
JohnClay said:
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It seems I'm unable to convince @Sanoy that he is mistaken about his beliefs so I was seeing if I can get Christians here to back me up.
My belief is that Matthew and Luke are based on Mark and maybe Q. I don't think Luke had access to the complete book of Matthew.
I thought it would be better to start a new topic about this.
Hello J C. Great thread and topic.
If I am not mistaken, it is also believed that Luke wrote the historical book of Acts and was a travel companion of the Apostle Paul.
Luke and Acts make up a fairly large portion of the NT, along with Saul/Paul's Epistles [He is introduced in Acts 7 at the event of the stoning of St Stephen:
Act 7:58 and they cast
him out of the city and stoned
him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of
a young man named Saul.
Luke 1:3 it seemed good also to me, having followed from the first after all things exactly, to write to thee in order, most noble Theophilus,
Acts 1:1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach
Authorship of Luke–Acts - Wikipedia
The authorship of the
Gospel of Luke and the
Acts of the Apostles, collectively known as
Luke–Acts, is an important issue for biblical
exegetes who are attempting to produce critical scholarship on the origins of the
New Testament. Traditionally, the text is believed to have been written by
Luke the companion of Paul (named in
Colossians 4:14). However, the earliest manuscripts are anonymous, and the traditional view has been challenged by many modern scholars.
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Strong's Concordance with Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
Strong's Concordance - Condensed Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
OR Thayer's Greek Lexicon
2Ti 4:11
Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for ministry.
Phm 1:24
as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow laborers.
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Luke is my favorite Gospel, next to John, perhaps because I am a Gentile Christian?.
BABerean2 said:
↑The Book of Matthew was addressed mainly to a
Jewish audience. Jesus was telling the Jews of His time that something similar to 167 BC would happen during 70 AD
Luke’s Gospel was written to more of a
Gentile audience, so he spelled it out for them.
Matthew 24:3and
what the sign of Thy parousia<3952> and
full-consummation<4930>
of the Age?
Mark 13:4 Tell us!
when these shall be?
and
what the sign whenever may be being about<3195>
all these to be fully-consummated<4931>.
Luke 21:7 And
what the sign whenever may be being about<3195>
these to becoming<1096>?