Patton first surveys the scholarly work on the Synoptic Problem and the state of opinion on how Matthew, Mark and Luke are related, then pushes the inquiry further himself. Passage by passage, including the saying of the beam and the mote, he weighs verbal agreements to separate Mark from the sayings source Q and its varying forms.
A careful early twentieth-century contribution to gospel source criticism, for students of the New Testament. Download the free EPUB.