who traveled with him and saw and heard what he said and did. Their memories of his words and deeds supplied the raw “Jesus material.” These memories were already selective since they concentrated on what pertained to Jesus’ proclamation of God, not the many trivia of ordinary existence (or elements of the “actual Jesus”). Both the Synoptic and the Johannine Gospel traditions sprang from this matrix. How can this be when the end products, Mark/Matthew/Luke compared to John, are so different? Part
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