-2- that Q is an inadequate hypothesis and to help to supply for this inadequacy, in a way that does not conflict with the literary data, it is necessary to distinguish two different sources for the Logia common to Matthew and Luke, (a) Matthew Aramaic which, besides narrative matter, contained Logia (of which omitted the greater part) and was therefore a gospel in the true sense of the word; (b) the Supplementary Collection of Logia: supplementary, that is, to Matthew Aramaic, because it was meant either to preserve matter omitted from that gospel or to preserve in some different and more desirable from matter which that gospel already contained.
To these two sources, both Matthew Greek and Luke are indebted; they are drawing from Matthew Aramaic when the narrative context in which the Logia are grouped is the same in each gospel, and they are drawing from the Supplementary Collection when each makes use of the Logia in its own characteristic way; Luke, keeping them together, inserts them in blocks in his 'great intercalation' - Luke 9:51-18:14 - Matthew splits them up and distributes them throughout his gospel in his five main sections.
One notable result of this complicated literary process is what are called 'doublets': that is, the same saying or group of sayings occurs twice in Matthew or in Luke because on each occasion they are quoted from the two different sources, that is, Matthew Aramaic (either immediately or through the medium of Mark) and the Collection. It should be noticed that both Matthew and Luke would have used these two sources not in their primitive Aramaic but in two different Greek translations, which would sometimes agree with each other and sometimes not; this would explain why the parallel texts of the first and third gospels are at times extraordinarily alike, at other times markedly unlike.
Having stated the purely literary considerations of this view, it is now possible to describe each of the steps in the formation of the first three gospels. This can be done with some degree of probability, but not with complete certainty.
At the heart of the oral preaching of the apostles lies the 'Kerygma' proclaiming the redemptive death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Peter's discourses in the Acts of the Apostles provide us with typical summaries of this apostolic preaching which would in practice have included more detailed narratives: principally the story of the Passion which must have assumed its stereotyped pattern very early, as the close similarity of the four gospel accounts shows, but also many anecdotes taken from the Master's life, and throwing light on his person, his mission and his power, or else illustrating his teaching by means of some well-remembered episode, saying, miracle, pronouncement or parable, etc.
In addition to the apostles themselves there were professional narrators like the evangelists (those who enjoyed a special charisma not limited to the writers of the four gospels; cf. Acts 21:8; Eph. 4:11; 2 Tim. 4:5), who tended to stereotype the anecdotes by constant repetition. Before long, and particularly when the witnesses who had been in touch with the events themselves began to disappear, measures would have been taken to commit this oral tradition to writing. Episodes originally narrated separately and independently of each other would naturally be grouped together either chronologically (for example, Mark 1:16-39 - the Day of Capernaum) or logically (for examples, Mark 2:1-3:6, the Five Disputes); the groupings would be small at first, but would later grow into more extensive collections. This was the stage at which an author intervened who, according to tradition, which there is no reason to doubt, was Matthew the apostle.
Matthew was the first to compose a 'gospel' which drew together Christ's deeds and words into a continuous narrative covering the earthly ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ from baptism to resurrection. Shortly afterwards a 'Collection', of unknown authorship, appeared side by side with this early gospel; it purpose was to preserve sayings of the Lord Jesus Christ which were either not contained in Matthew Aramaic, or were presented there in a different form.
This early gospel and this Collection, both written in Aramaic, were soon put into Greek, and eventually various forms of these translations came to exist. Now Peter's preaching of the catechesis (or 'instruction') was probably based on the same Palestinian tradition that Matthew had committed to writing.
Consequently, when Peter's disciple Mark set himself to record this catechesis, it was most natural that he should make use of Matthew Aramaic in whatever Greek translation was familiar to him. This would not have prevented Mark from putting into his narratives some of the vivid realism that had come to him from the preaching of his master Peter, which was itself full of that living quality that comes from personal experience of events. It is this realism, loaded with picturesque and true-to-life detail, which endears Mark's narratives to us in spite of his rough Greek style. True to his purpose (of which we shall speak later) Mark decided to put in very few of the Sayings. Mark shortened or omitted the ones in the early gospel and passed over in silence those in the Collection of which, presumably, he knew nothing.
This silence of Mark was to be remedied by two new gospel editions (though which of them preceded the other it is difficult to say). An anonymous editor, Matthew Greek, decided to rewrite the first Aramaic gospel, which was known to him in one of its Greek translations. This he filled out and made more detailed, using for his narrative parts of the work of Mark his predecessor, to which he added one thing only of importance, that is, the two chapters of the Infancy Narrative.......
HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS (VICAR OF CHRIST) TO THEOLOGIANS: DON'T DO THEOLOGY AWAY FROM PEOPLE. "A THEOLOGY THAT HELPS EVERY CHRISTIAN PROCLAIM THE SAVING FACE OF GOD IS NECESSARY."
FOR POPE FRANCIS (VICAR OF CHRIST), THE THEOLOGIAN ISN'T JUST A SIMPLE SCHOLAR OF GOD, BUT RATHER MUCH MORE. HE OR SHE IS A SCHOLAR AT THE SERVICE OF A PEOPLE, THE CHURCH, TO WHICH HE OR SHE BELONGS AND IS NURTURED BY. THERE'S NO ROOM FOR INDIVIDUALIST THEOLOGIANS WHO COMPETE AMONGST THEMSELVES TO SEE WHO KNOWS MORE.
HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS (VICAR OF CHRIST),
"A THEOLOGY THAT HELPS EVERY CHRISTIAN PROCLAIM AND SHOW IS NECESSARY; ABOVE ALL, THE SAVING FACE OF GOD OF THE MERCIFUL GOD, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF SOME UNPRECEDENTED CHALLENGES THE HUMAN BEING FACES TODAY."
POPE FRANCIS MET WITH THE ORGANIZATION IN HONOR OF ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY. THE ASSOCIATION WAS CREATED WITH THE GOAL OF HELPING PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL. - ROMEREPORTS.COM DECEMBER 29, 2017 -
HENCE, I EARNESTLY AND PROFOUNDLY BELIEVED THAT AS FAR AS SPIRITUALITY IS CONCERN. IT CAN ONLY COME FROM GOD, THE AUTHOR. THUS, THERE IS NO SUCH THING, AS COPYRIGHT, OR IT IS PRODUCED OR WRITTEN BY ME OR IT IS MINE; THE WORD OF GOD, THE SACRED SCRIPTURE/HOLY BIBLE.
"I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE." - JOHN 16:12-15 -
ALL WRITERS, PERTAINING TO SPIRITUALITY WERE DEFINITELY QUOTED OR TAKE FROM HERE AND THERE, WHICH MAY BE ON AND FROM SOME OTHER WRITERS ARTICLES, BOOKS, BLOGS, OR SITES, ESPECIALLY THE "WORD OF GOD" THE SACRED SCRIPTURE/HOLY BIBLE. BUT IN REALITY, IT IS FIRST USED ALREADY, PERHAPS, LONG, LONG TIME AGO.
"THIS DISCIPLE IS THE ONE WHO VOUCHES FOR THESE THINGS AND HAS WRITTEN THEM DOWN, AND WE KNOW THAT HIS TESTIMONY IS TRUE. THERE ARE MANY OTHER THINGS THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST DID; IF ALL WERE WRITTEN DOWN, THE WORLD ITSELF, I SUPPOSE, WOULD NOT HOLD ALL THE BOOKS THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE WRITTEN." - JOHN 21:24-25 -
JUST AS GOD ORIGINALLY INSPIRED THE SACRED SCRIPTURE/HOLY BIBLE. GOD HAS USED THIS MEANS TO PRESERVE HIS 'WORD' FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. BUT BEHIND THE WRITING LAY PERIODS OF TIME WHEN THESE MESSAGES WERE CIRCULATED IN SPOKEN FORM. (ORAL TRADITION) THE STORIES OF THE PATRIARCHS WERE PASSED FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION BY WORD OF MOUTH BEFORE THEY WERE WRITTEN. (WRITTEN TRADITION)
THE MESSAGES OF THE PROPHETS WERE DELIVERED ORALLY BEFORE THEY WERE FIXED IN WRITING. NARRATIVES OF THE LIFE AND MINISTRY OF CHRIST JESUS WERE REPEATED ORALLY FOR TWO OR THREE DECADES BEFORE THEY WERE FIXED IN WRITING.
THEREFORE, SACRED SCRIPTURE/HOLY BIBLE QUOTATION, THAT IS, HOW ANYONE AND I PUT WORD OF GOD INTO SENTENCES OR PUT WORDS INTO SENTENCES. REMEMBER ALWAYS! NO MATTER HOW THE "WORD OF GOD" AND WORDS PUT INTO SENTENCES, IN TRUTH, EVERYONE STARTED AND TOOK IT FROM THE MAIN SOURCE, THAT IS, FROM THE WITNESSES AND FROM THE SACRED SCRIPTURE/HOLY BIBLE; "WORD OF GOD."
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I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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