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In the context of the story as a whole, in all three versions, the issue is violation of a prohibition against working on the sabbath (not on the week).

Re: "KJV translates σαββάτου in Lk 18:12 as 'week'"

Interesting, but not relevant to this context since the issue is honoring the seventh day.

Re: Matthean posteriority: Lord of the Sabbath I listened to James Tabor argue persuasively that Matthew depended on Mark's Lord of the Sabbath story, and not vice versa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrzRz-rTcHU Then I looked at Steve Runge's comparison of the three synptic accounts of The Lord ...

Re: Which came first? gMatt or gThomas? The case of the Saying 57 http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas/gospelthomas57.html# With my working hypothesis of a late gMatt, my guess is that we see a process of editorial expansion: Mark's version is oldest, then came Thomas's, then came Matthew's....

I have an ebook of Doherty's Jesus, Neither God Nor Man (2009) and he claims that 2 Peter does not assume a historical Jesus, but rather that 2 Peter 1.16-18 describes a vision of what was to come (p. 82; there's a link to a web page, but I can't bring it up and it mo longer be active). I think thi...

"According to an early tradition, he [James] so nearly resembled our Lord in person, in features, and deportment, that it was difficult to distinguish them. 'The Holy Virgin herself,' says the legend, 'had she been capable of error, might have mistaken one for the other' : and this exact resemb...

@neilgodfrey Thanks, this is interesting. I like the suggestion that the author of GJohn read Galatians and that, in his depiction of "the beloved disciple", he echoed language of Paul (eg. "the life I live now in the flesh , in the faith I live, that of the God and Christ who loved m...

"He [James] was called also the brother of our Lord , because he resembled much well our Lord in body, in visage, and of manner. " ---Golden Legend, Jacobus Voragine (1275) Yes, this would seem to be a rare description of James, the Lord's brother vis-a-vis Jesus! I'm in search of more of...

Golden Legend (late source) James the Apostle is said the Less, how well that he was elder of age than was St. James the More, because like as is in religion he that entered first is called aine and great, and he that cometh after shall be called less, though he be the older, and in this wise was t...

I recall reading about some ancient text describing "James the Lord's brother" as looking physically similar to Jesus. It said that sometimes even their mother could not tell them apart.

Frustratingly, I cannot find the document or the citation!

Can anyone help?