[39] Cf. a similar omission of the address to the waves, p. 48.
[40] See Bartlet, “Sources of St. Luke’s Gospel,” Oxford Studies, p. 321.
[41] I am unable to account for Matthew’s addition that Jesus touched the man’s eyes.
[42] See p. 244 for further discussion of the saying as in Mark and Q.
[43] No reason can be given, so far as I know, for Luke’s addition of his xx, 18. Some texts ascribe the same saying to Matthew also.
[44] I think I owe this suggestion to Wernle, but do not find the passage in his Synoptische Frage.
[45] Bacon explains this saying of Mark’s to mean that Jahwe is not a god of the underworld, like Pluto (Beginnings of Gospel Story).
[46] Luke (xvii, 34) wishes to suggest that the parousia may occur in the night.
[47] Horae Synopticae, p. 120.
[48] See his study, from which these statements are abridged, in Oxford Studies in the Synoptic Problem, pp. 76-77.