(March 11, 2015 at 9:39 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: However, the content is almost identical except for 3 or 4 extra items in Luke. Don't you think that is suspicious? If Matthew and Luke were independently sourcing Q, then I wouldn't expect the set of sayings to be almost identical. I would expect Matthew to have several Q sayings that don't appear in Luke.
Given that the only way we can identify the Q material is when something appears in both gMatt and gLuke but clearly isn't in gMark, how could we know if something that appears only in gMatt isn't also from the Q source/s and was simply left out by gLuke? Or something that appears only in gLuke isn't also from the Q source/s and was simply left out by gMatt? A lot of the L and M material may actually be from Q but was only used by one other gospel, so we don't recognise it as Q material.
