Christians - even the Bible says that Jesus was not God so why do you say he was ?

[John V]

So I was close. 70% is good enough an estimate.

Ok, you included Matthew 2, but what about Matthew 1 as well? Make that 25 extra verses, and you now have 47. That's a relatively large number of verses omitted in two chapters only.

But I disagree with that simplistic approach to measuring similarity. I'd rather we go by account similarity rather than word or verse similarity.

No, you'd rather wave your arms about, make a bare assertion (or very close to it), and hope you don't get challenged. If you want to go by accounts, go ahead and do the legwork.

The nativity account in Matthew is not in any way similar to the one in Luke. The genealogy as well. So Matthew 1 and 2 are entirely not in Luke.

"Not it any way similar"? You're either purposely lying, or haven't even read the passages.

In both:
- Mary is a virgin
- Mary is betrothed to Joseph
- Mary conceives by the Holy Spirit
- An angel says the child's name will be Jesus
- Jesus is born in Bethlehem

Each account has additional information not included in the other. This is problematic for the by account approach, and is why a verse count is better.

I don't want to keep going as it's a lot of work,

That's your problem.