(October 28, 2020 at 9:16 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It may be an oral tradition
If Matthew & Luke wrote independently of each other, as is the common view among critical New Testament scholars, then Q almost certainly existed as an extant document. Oral traditions change over time, and so, Matthew & Luke would have similar content but not exact words if Q did not exist as a document that they were copying from. In any case, the authors of Matthew & Luke were not eyewitnesses to the life of Jesus, as is evidenced by the fact that they copied and compiled so much material from other sources.