Biblical books Matthew, Mark, Luke, John... written by them or one story with four telephone game variants?

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[–]jet199 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

And apparently there were 2 other versions of Mark which were far more spiritual but the early church thought they would just confuse the average person.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think there was only one other version, "Secret Mark". So two total. And apparently Secret Mark is more in line with how Mark is generally structured.

The Hebrew version of Matthew found among medieval Jews has a line from Secret Mark in it, as well as a parallel story from Mark that is not in canonical Matthew. There's actually a ton of stuff in it connected to ancient documents, I don't know how anyone could say it's a translation from the Vulgate, even though many parts were "corrected" to match it.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting lead. Thanks!