In the preceding pages sufficient consideration has been given not only to the fact, but to the manner, of the use of Mark by Matthew and Luke. Visual illustration, by the printing of a few passages in different kinds of type may serve to enforce some of the more general facts already brot out. The words (or parts of words) common to the three Synoptics, in the following passages, will be printed in heavy-faced type.
Mt ix, 5-6: [Greek: =ti= gar =estin| Mk ii, 9-10_a_: [Greek: =ti estin| eukopôteron, eipein=: | eukopôteron, eipein= | =aph=ie=ntai | tô paralytikô: =aph=ie=ntai | sou hai hamartiai, ê | sou hai hamartiai, ê | eipein: egeire kai= | eipein: egeire kai= | | aron ton krabbaton | peripatei? =hina de eidête | sou kai hypage? =hina de eidête | hoti exousian | hoti exousian | echei ho hyios tou anthrôpou | echei ho hyios tou anthrôpou | epi tês gês aphienai | epi tês gês aphienai | hamartias=, tote legei | hamartias=, legei | =tô paral=ytikô | =tô paral=ytikô: soi legô, | =eger=theis =ar=on =sou= | =ege=i=r=e =ar=on ton | tên klinên kai hypage | krabbaton =sou= kai hypage | =eis ton oikon sou=.] | =eis ton oikon sou=.] |
Lk v, 23-24: [Greek: =ti estin eukopôteron, eipein=: =aph=eô=ntai= soi =hai hamartiai sou ê eipein: egeire kai=
peripatei? =hina de eidête hoti ho hyios tou anthrôpou exousian echei epi tês gês aphienai hamartias=, eipen =tô paral=elymenô: soi legô, =ege=i=r=e kai =ar=as to klinidion =sou= poreuou =eis ton oikon sou=.]
Here the evangelists differ each from the other in the words ascribed to Jesus, but when they come to the parenthetic explanation injected into the midst of the sentence, [Greek: hina de eidête], etc., they agree exactly, not only in the wording, but in the awkward placing of the clause. The three accounts agree in the first five lines, except for the presence of [Greek: gar] in Matthew, the insertion of [Greek: tô paralytikô] in Mark, and a slightly different form of the verb [Greek: aphiêmi] in Luke. In the fourth line Luke also inserts [Greek: soi], after which come seven consecutive agreeing words (tho with slight rearrangement in order by Luke). Mark then has a clause of six words which Matthew and Luke omit. The latter agree in substituting [Greek: peripatei] for [Greek: hypage], and two (different) words from the same root for Mark's [Greek: krabbaton]. Luke has preserved the [Greek: soi legô] which Matthew has dropped.