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2551(...continued)Matthew 10:19 o[tan de. paradw/sin u`ma/j( mh. merimnh,shte pw/j h' ti, lalh,shte\ doqh,-setai ga.r u`mi/n evn evkei,nh| th/ | w[ra| ti, lalh,shte\ 10.20 ouv ga.r u`mei/j evste oi` lalou/ntejavlla. to. pneu/ma tou/ patro.j u`mw/n to. lalou/n evn u`mi/nÅBut then when they hand you people over, don't be anxious how or what you should say.For it will be given to you people in that hour what you shall say. For you people are not the onesspeaking, but rather, the Spirit of your Father, the One speaking in you people.Comparing these three passages, it seems obvious that both Luke and Matthew arefollowing their major source document, Mark; but Matthew has been much more dependent onthat source than has Luke, who has freely changed the wording, although not the basic meaning.Mark is the shortest, with 31 words, while both Luke and Matthew have 35 words each. The lastsentence in Mark 13:11c and in Matthew 10:20 has no parallel in Luke. Here Matthew followsMark, very closely, but adds the phrase "(the Spirit) of your Father, the One speaking in you people,"where Mark has only "(the Spirit), the Set-apart One."Instead of Mark's "when they lead you people away," and Matthew's "When they handyou people over," Luke has "But then when they bring you people in, before the religious gatheringsand the rulers and the authorities," a fuller and more explicit description of the kind of officialpersecution and trials awaiting the disciples of Jesus, which would be readily understood byLuke’s intended Roman reader/s. Luke adds to the statement of Jesus the verb avpologh,shsqe,meaning literally "you should reason in defense," a verb not used in the other Gospels, but whichfits in with our understanding of the overall purpose of both Luke and Acts, as a two-volume apologeticaldefense of the Christian movement. Luke joins with Mark / Matthew in holding thatJesus taught His disciples that the Set-apart Spirit would be with them in their times of trial andpersecution, teaching them both in their reasoning and in their speaking.Luke 21:14-15 qe,te ou=n evn tai/j kardi,aij u`mw/n mh. promeleta/n avpologhqh/nai\ 21.15evgw. ga.r dw,sw u`mi/n sto,ma kai. sofi,an h-| ouv dunh,sontai avntisth/nai h' avnteipei/n a[pantejoi` avntikei,menoi u`mi/nÅTherefore set (it) in your hearts, not to practice beforehand to give reasoned defense; for I,I will give to you people a mouth and wisdom, which they will not be able to withstand, or contradict,all the ones opposing you people.John 14:26 o` de. para,klhtoj( to. pneu/ma to. a[gion( o] pe,myei o` path.r evn tw/| ovno,mati,mou( evkei/noj u`ma/j dida,xei pa,nta kai. u`pomnh,sei u`ma/j pa,nta a] ei=pon u`mi/n Îevgw,ÐÅBut then the Helper, the Spirit, the Set-apart One, Which the Father will send in My name,that One will teach you people all things, and will remind you people (of) all things that [I], I spoketo you.1235(continued...)
2552 2553 2554you people before the gathering places and the rulers and the authorities, do not worry2555 2556how or what you should reason in defense, or what you should say. 12.12 For the Set-2551(...continued)Nolland comments that "For the idiom of the Holy Spirit 'teaching,' Luke may be influencedby a strand of tradition shared with John..." (P. 681)2552The preposition evpi, "before," or "upon," is changed to the preposition eivj, "into," bySinaiticus, Bezae, Families 1 and 13 of Minuscules, Minuscules 579, 700, 1241, 2542, a fewother Greek manuscripts, the Latin Vulgate, a part of the Old Latin witnesses and Clement ofAlexandria (who died before 215 A.D.). This variant does not change the meaning of Jesus'statement, but is simply a matter of improving on the grammar of the original text.2553The phrase sunagwga.j kai. ta.j avrca.j, "gathering places and the rulers," has the wordorderchanged to "rulers and the gathering-places," by P45, which does not change the meaningof Luke in the least.2554The aorist imperative verb merimnh,shte, "(don't) you people worry," is read by P75, Sinaiticus,Vaticanus, L, Q, Theta, Psi, Uncial Manuscript 070, Families 1 and 13 of Minuscules,Minuscules 33, 579, 700, 892, 1241, 2542, a few other Greek manuscripts and Origen of Alexandria(who died 254 A.D.). It is changed to the present imperative, merimna,te with the samemeaning, by Alexandrinus, W and the "Majority Text." It is changed to read pronerimna,te,"(don't) you people worry beforehand," in order to make Luke's text conform more closely to thetext of Mark 13:11, by Bezae and Clement of Alexandria (who died before 215 A.D.). The variantreadings do not change the meaning of Jesus' teaching according to Luke.Nolland comments that "The worry envisaged here will be about the preservation of one'slife in this situation of threat...Such a concern about one's life is both wrong in itself and a denialof God's care and of His control over the situation." (2, pp. 680-81)2555The phrase pw/j h' ti, "how or what?" is changed to read simply pw/j "how?" by Bezae,a few other Greek manuscripts, a majority of the Old Latin witnesses, the Curetonian Syriac, thePeshitta Syriac, Clement of Alexandria (who died before 215 A.D.) and Origen of Alexandria (whodied 254 A.D.). It is changed to read simply ti, "what?" by the Old Latin Manuscript r1 and theSinaitic Syriac. These variants do not change the meaning of Luke.2556Here Luke uses the verb avpologh,shsqe, "you should reason in defense," which isfound ten times in the Greek New Testament, eight of which are in Luke I Acts: Luke 12:11(here); 21:14; Acts 19:33; 24:10; 25:8; 26:1, 2, 24. Outside these passages, the verb is found atRomans 2:15 and 2 Corinthians 12:19.We think that this very document, Luke, along with its companion volume Acts, constitutethe first and greatest of the written “reasoned defenses" of the Christian movement, and we imaginetheir author as considering himself guided by the Spirit in writing these classic documents. Inour opinion, there simply is no greater “apologetic” work defending the Christian movement than(continued...)1236
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