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The Preexistent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark, and Luke is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this challenging book, rising New Testament scholar Simon Gathercole contradicts a commonly held view among biblical scholars—that the Gospel of John is the only Gospel to give evidence for Jesus’ heavenly identity and preexistence. The Preexistent Son demonstrates that Matthew, Mark, and Luke were also well aware that the Son of God existed with the Father prior to his earthly ministry....

conclusions from the question and statement of Jesus here has been something of a hazardous enterprise; nevertheless, a tentative attempt will be made here.102 Our exegesis here applies to the Markan and the Lukan versions of the saying, which are identical; the parallel in Matt. 19:17 is not so significant for our purposes. It will be helpful, for the purposes of a foil, to note features of R. Pesch’s interpretation. He identifies as important the transition from v. 18 (“no one is good but God alone”)
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