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Perhaps the greatest literary enigma in history, the Synoptic Problem has fascinated generations of scholars who have puzzled over the agreements, the disagreements, the variations, and the peculiarities of the relationship between the first three of our canonical Gospels. Yet the Synoptic Problem remains inaccessible to students, who often become quickly entangled in its apparent complexities....

cause-and-effect relationship. The following sequence illustrates the point.4 Matthew Mark Luke Event 16:13–20 8:27–30 9:18–21 Peter’s Confession 16:21–23 8:31–33 9:22 Prediction of the Passion 16:24–28 8:34–9:1 9:23–27 On Discipleship 17:1–8 9:2–8 9:28–36 Transfiguration 17:9–13 9:9–13 Coming of Elijah 17:14–20 9:14–29 9:37–43a Healing of an Epileptic 17:22–23 9:30–32 9:43b–45 Second Passion Prediction 17:24–27 Temple Tax 18:1–5 9:33–37 9:46–48 Dispute about Greatness 9:38–41 9:49–50 Strange
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