Sentences with phrase «same oral source»

It is evidence that they are from the same oral source which goes back to the promise of Adam and Eve.

Not exact matches

Source critics see here the same three primary strata of tradition — J, F, and P — which we have already seen in Exodus; but we will do well to remind ourselves again that these symbols represent by and large the collection and arrangement of smaller units of oral and / or written material some of which, at least, were already long in existence.

Since almost all of the sayings are paralleled once in Mark (usually in the same context as in Mark), the most likely explanation is that when Matthew found them not only in Mark but also in some other source — perhaps oral tradition — he used them twice.