Sources of the Synoptic Gospels Part 27

6. Various facts, especially translation variants, require the a.s.sumption that this Q was originally an Aramaic doc.u.ment, used by Matthew and Luke respectively, in two Greek translations that went back to two different Aramaic texts.[138]

7. This furnishes the clue for the a.n.a.lysis of Q into QMt and QLk, and for the a.s.signment to these two recensions of Q of much material which has. .h.i.therto been a.s.signed to unknown sources.

8. Mark has some literary dependence upon Q; but the Q which he knew was an earlier form than those in the hands of Matthew and Luke.

9. The original order of Q is best seen in the order of the Q material preserved in Luke.