circles, we have the second-century Gospel of Thomas (on which, see pp. 264–268), with its 114 consecutive sayings attributed to Jesus as another example of this genre. That Matthew and Luke each about half of the time seem to preserve the more literal translation of Jesus’ originally Aramaic words suggests that neither is borrowing directly from the other. That the amount of verbal parallelism is often not as great as when Matthew or Luke follow Mark reinforces this conclusion. That no-one has ever