can be strung on to necklaces in a variety of ways, not all of which are equally beautiful or communicate the same picture. The whole is more than just the sum of the parts. During the 1950s and 1960s, another approach to the gospels grew up alongside form criticism, known as redaction criticism (from the German, Redaktion, for newspaper editorial work). If we place three accounts by Mark, Matthew, and Luke of the same story side by side, we can see at once the changes Matthew and Luke have made