FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER THE SOURCES OF LUKE'S A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE DIVINITY DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (DEPARTMENT OF NEW TESTAMENT LITERATURE AND INTERPRETATION) BY DEAN ROCKWELL WICKES THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS COPYRIGHT 1912 BY All Rights Reserved Composed and Printed By TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE I III. HOMOGENEITY OF MATERIAL COMMON TO MATTHEW AND LUKE IV. HOMOGENEITY OF A BODY OF MATERIAL NOT USED IN MATTHEW 38 iii 263403 CHAPTER I THE USE BY MATTHEW OF PORTIONS IN LUKE'S PEREAN SECTION The portion of Luke's Gospel from 9:51 to 18: 14 has been noticed as a separate section from at least as early as the time of Eichhorn. In 1794 he published' the hypothesis that it had constituted a document simply inserted by Luke in making his gospel. The fact has come to be recognized that its material either has no parallel whatever in another gospel or has its only parallels in parts of the gospels dealing with other periods of the life of Jesus.2 There has also come to be associated with this extended portion of the gospel the first twenty-eight verses of Luke's nineteenth chapter, the whole being called "Luke's Perean section," and described as "that portion of his record of the Perean ministry of which there are no parallels in Mark's record of this period," 9:51-18: 14; 19:1-28.3 The fact that considerable portions of this material are closely paralleled in Matthew, while other important portions apparently germane to Matthew's purpose are not paralleled at all, suggests the possibility that a part and only a part of it was in Matthew's possession.4 According to their relation to Matthew's use we may group the portions of Luke's Perean section as follows: (1) those in which the similarity of Matthew and Luke is so close that the use of a common source may be said to be almost self-evident; (2) those less closely paralleled in Matthew, (a) some of which we may consider as from a common source, and (b) some of which we may decide probably came to the two from different sources; (3) portions which, if known to Matthew, he might easily have omitted; and (4) portions which it seems probable Matthew would have used if he had had them. 1. The first group of passages may be enumerated as follows: Luke 9:57-60; 10:2-3, 12-15, 21-22, 23-24; 11:9-13, 19-20, 23, 24-26, 2932, 34-35; 12:2, 10, 22-31, 34, 39-40, 42-46; 13:20-21, 34-35; 14:11; Allgemeine Bibliothek der biblischen Litteratur, 5. Band, S. 991–92, 995. 2 Burton, Principles of Literary Criticism and the Synoptic Problem, 1904, pp. 29 and 36. 3 Ibid., p. 36. 4 Cf. ibid., pp. 42 f. I |