I believe Matthew had multiple incentives to make drastic changes of Mark’s gospel, along with the addition of Q. One of these incentives would be to bring more clarification into his own gospel, where Mark’s gospel was full of a more ambiguous sense. In Mk 6:52, after Jesus had performed a miracle to save the… Continue reading →

The author of Matthew does indeed go to great lengths to restore the image of the disciples from the negative way that they were presented in the gospel of Mark. In Mark, the disciples rarely understand the things Jesus does i.e. miracles, parables, etc. Some of this confusion is present in Matthew as well yet… Continue reading →

The parables in the end of chapter 24 and all of chapter 25 in Matthew are apocalyptic in nature. They are taken from the M and Q sources, not Mark, implying that the author added them strategically for a certain purpose. White poses the argument that these apocalyptic parables refer back to the towns of… Continue reading →