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Did Scribes Change Luke's Theology?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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The Chiasmus in the Gospel of Luke

I was taking a class on the Gospel of Luke, sitting next to my buddy in the program, Mark. So he reads a paper on this passage and points out that the passage is structured with a particular literary feature which people hadn't noticed before. And so they call it a chiasmus because the chiasmus is an X, it was like an X, half of an X. That's a literary structure that sometimes Greek authors would use. You've got this chiasmus here. Jesus tells the disciples pray so that you not enter into temptation. He leaves them, he kneels, and he prays, gets up from kneeling, he returns to them, and he says

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