LIEUT.-COL. G. MACKINLAY, ON SOME LUCAN PROBLEMS. 189 



(b) The lesser Insertion {Luke vi, to viii, 3). 



(c) The great Omission hetiveen verses 17 ctncl 18 of Luhe ix, 



of cell the matter contained in Mark vi, JfS, to viii, 26. 



We shall first of all brietly summarize the explanations of 

 these problems suggested by the Kev. Sir John Hawkins in his 

 very careful and scholarly paper in the recently published 

 Oxford Studies in the Synoptic Prohlevi. 



Explanations of the Lucan Problems. 



{a) and (b) The tiuo Insertions. 



He states that in both of the Insertions Luke has certainly 

 deserted* his usual Marcan source. Our author suggests as an 

 explanation of the great Insertion (Luke ix, 51, to xviii, 14), 

 which very largely treats of journeying towards Jerusalem — 



(1) Before Luke adopted the Gospel of Mark as his source, 

 he may have drawn up this " travel document " and " he may 

 thus have had it ready to his hand for incorporation here."t 



(2) Luke may have already been in possession of the Marcan 

 document, but he may have deliberately laid it aside, in 

 preference for another account, which may have been more in 

 order and first hand than that of Mark. 



Our author, however, warns us that such conjectures " are 

 easily made too much of, and when that is the case they bring 

 discredit upon the serious study of the Synoptic Problem.''^ But 

 he offers no further explanation for the existence of the great 

 Insertion, and he does not suggest any reason at all for the 

 lesser one. 



(c) The great Omission. 



Sir John gives much fuller and very interesting suggested 

 explanations for the employment of the great Omission§ which 

 we briefly summarize — 



(1) The copy of Mark which Luke used may have been an 

 early one, deficient of the veises under consideration. Our 

 author, II however, does not consider this more than a bare 



f S.S.P., pp. 33 and 59. 

 t :S.S.F., pp. 55, 56. 

 S.S.P., p. 59. 



<S.S.P., pp. 61-74, by Kev. Sir John Hawkins, see also pp. 24, 25, by 

 Canon Sanday. 

 II S.S.R, p. 66. 



