(October 26, 2015 at 8:20 am)Irrational Wrote: Yet Luke repeated most of the other stuff stated in Matthew. Now give me your spin on why that was the case.
First support that "Luke repeated most of the other stuff stated in Matthew."
According to wiki, only Luke only shares 200 verses (out of 1151 total) with Matthew that aren't in Mark, and the simplest explanation is that Luke had access to Matthew:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synoptic_Gospels
An extensive set of material—some two hundred verses or roughly half the length of the triple tradition—are the pericopae shared between Matthew and Luke but absent in Mark.
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The simplest hypothesis is that Luke relied on Matthew's work or vice versa.