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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....

The striking thing about Triple Tradition is, however, that it is rare for both Matthew and Luke to place the same incident differently. One thus has the following pattern in the order of Triple Tradition: either Matthew, Mark and Luke all agree, or Matthew and Mark agree together against Luke, or Mark and Luke agree together against Matthew. It is unusual to find Matthew and Luke agreeing together against Mark. In other words, Mark is also the middle term in the question of the order of Triple Tradition
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