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The rationale for McGrath's typical incredulity evapoates if you consider that Luke is actively hostile to his sources, and that the redactional activity of the evangelists in general was not characterized by a desire to avoid contradiction, but precisely to contradict where they disagreed with their predecessors' presentation. Harmonization was a later concern. It seems clear to me that Matthew was intended to supplant Mark, and I think the author of Luke had the same idea.
Luke's Use of Matthew: Luke 1:31 as a Test Case
I am no scholar of the synoptic problem, but I was raised a Q sceptic and continue to remain comfortable with the notion of Luke's knowledge and use of Matthew. But I looked again at one tiny aspect of the evidence that Mark Goodacre draws on in support of that notion: namely that Luke betrays a...
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