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In Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels, respected New Testament scholar Pheme Perkins delivers a fresh introduction to the earliest written accounts of Jesus—Matthew, Mark, and Luke—situating those canonical Gospels within the wider world of oral storytelling and literary production of the first and second centuries. Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels presents a balanced look at how the...

copies of Mark are from the fourth (P88) and sixth (P84) centuries respectively. The five early papyrus copies of Luke put it well ahead of Mark, though well behind John and Matthew.30 Of course, the distribution figures may change as papyri continue to be identified, dated, and published. However all known papyri show a similar pattern. Matthew and John are more frequently copied than Luke and Mark. So the material remains coincide with data based on early quotations or allusions. Stanton thinks
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