I’ve been reading Stanley E. Porter
and Bryan R. Dyer, eds., The Synoptic
Gospels: Four Views (Baker Academic, 2016). The four views and their
proponents in this book: Two Source Theory (Craig A Evans); Farrer Hypothesis
(Mark Goodacre); Two Gospel Hypothesis (David Barrett Peabody); Orality and
Memory Hypothesis (Rainer Reisner). I’ll hopefully write a fuller review when I
finish.
I am less inclined to see any direct
literary relationship among the Synoptic Gospels (independent development
view).
Here, however, are some Synoptic
Gospel comparison facts from the introductory chapter by the editors (from pp.
6-8):
90 percent of Mark is shared with
either Matthew or Luke or both.
Nearly all of that 90 percent of Mark
is found in Matthew.
About 50 percent of Mark is found in
Luke.
Of c. 665 verses found in Mark, 600
appear in some form in Matthew or Luke.
Matthew and Luke share 230 verses not
in Mark.
Mark can be divided into 88 pericopes.
Of those, only 5 do not appear in either Matthew or Luke.
As for that final point, on there
being only five pericopes, in Craig A. Evans' chapter in this work, he lists
eleven distinct passages in Mark (p. 35). Here is my summary of those:
Introduction: “The
beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God”
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Mark 1:1
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Jesus saying: “the
sabbath was not made for man, but man for the sabbath”
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Mark 2:27
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Jesus accused of
being “beside himself”
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Mark 3:20-21
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Parable of the
secretly growing seed
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Mark 4:26-29
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Jesus’ disciples
accused of eating with “unwashen” hands
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Mark 7:2-4
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Jesus heals a deaf
and dumb man
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Mark 7:32-37
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Jesus heals a
blind man at Bethsaida
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Mark 8:22-26
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Jesus’ saying, “This
kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting”
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Mark 9:29
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Jesus’ saying on
being “salted with fire”
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Mark 9:48-49
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Jesus’ call to
watch
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Mark 13:33-37
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The naked young
man flees at Jesus’ arrest
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Mark 14:51-52
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JTR
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