Category: Synoptics
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Was Luke’s Gospel First?

For Bible Nerds: The “Synoptic Problem” is not a “problem” but a question: “How is it that we have three Gospels relating many of the same stories and sayings of Jesus in sometimes near-identical words?” Did they copy from each other? Did they copy from some common source we no longer have? And of these Gospels, which was written first? Luke?