In Search of Q: The Hypothetical Source for Matthew and Luke

Bart Ehrman is fascinating to listen to as always, so like all of his stuff, this video is worth checking out.

Personally, I've known about the Q Source since my freshman year at Calvin College, where I learned about it in religion 101.  But, after watching this video, I've realized that I was actually mistaken in some of my conceptions about Q.

For example, in a 2014 post, I wrote:

There are sections of Matthew and Luke which are word for word the same, but do not appear in Mark.  More specifically, there are a number of sayings of Jesus which are word for word the same, and which furthermore appear in the same order in both Matthew and Luke, but not Mark....  So since the authors of the Gospels Matthew and Luke either didn’t know each other, or mistrusted each other, it is hypothesized by scholars that there must have been some collections of sayings of Jesus (so named as the “Q” source) which both Matthew and Luke were copying from, and which has since been lost to history.

But after watching this Bart Ehrman video, I realize that actually the sayings from the Q source are not in the same order in Matthew and Luke. 

I guess this is yet another reminder for me to be careful every time I think I know everything.

But regardless, the video is really interesting, and worth watching