Q source

So what do you call it? Well, the German word for source is Quelle.

And so German scholars right back in the 19th century started calling this extra source Q, because it was the first letter of Quelle, meaning source, and it stuck.

And so now you'll hear about this lost gospel, this lost source, Q-

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... which is held to be a source for Matthew and Luke.

And it must have been important if it existed, because the stuff that Matthew and Luke agree on that's not in Mark is stuff like the Lord's Prayer, the Parable of the Lost Sheep, loads of the Sermon on the Mount, like the Beatitudes.

I mean, it's got some really famous Gospel material in there.

And they're really close in this material, so they must have really, if, if it existed, Matthew and Luke really valued this extra source, Q.

I'm really excited to read about it.

And, um, that book is the lost gospel of Q.

So, um, Very interesting.

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole last week, last weekend, actually went down of a bit of a rabbit hole.

And I was like, what is this lost gospel of Q all about? Because, you know, as we were talking with your boy, Todd, you know, we mentioned the Nagamati.

which, you know, that's what had the Book of Thomas and a lot of other things that were discovered in 1945 in Egypt, right? Well, even those aren't really the full story.

I mean, there's a lot more to, and we're eventually going to do a Book of Thomas episode on here, Book of Enoch and all that fun.

Probably not Book of Enoch on here, but Book of Thomas for sure, because the Book of Thomas, it's the way it's written.

And so the long story short is we came out with Marken priority, which all we mean is Mark is the first gospel that's written.

And today that makes perfect sense to people when you say, okay, well, it's the shortest it doesn't give you the christmas story doesn't give you much of an easter story either there's a there's an empty tomb and a young man tells some women that jesus is risen uh go tell his disciples but they don't the end well that's a rather uh unfulfilling ending into a gospel so matthew and luke come along and they start earlier with a birth story for jesus and they end with jesus in the flesh appearing to his disciple so again we get matthew mark and luke related in some way what has dominated scholarship for a hundred years though is this idea that we gotta keep matthew and luke in separate corners and they can't have been using one another and uh and so where did they get all that stuff that they have in common that that wasn't in mark well there must have been some other source that they used in addition to mark because obviously they've got mark because they use so much of mark's material in their own gospel but that mysterious second source what should we call it let's just call it source But let's use the German word for it, Capella, and then let's just give it an abbreviation, Q.

And so the two-source hypothesis says that Mark and this loss, predominantly sayings of Jesus, those two sources got us Matthew and Luke.

But we don't need to connect Matthew and Luke.

Mark was the first one.

Matthew and Luke just edited Mark, changed stuff, inserted stuff, used something we don't have anymore called Q Source, the Q Source, the Quella Source.

put all that stuff together.

John just went off and did his own thing because he wrote so much later.