In this article, under the premise that Luke's Gospel was published in the early AD 50s, it is proposed that Luke rearranged the three temptations, placing the temple pinnacle temptation last, in order to connect with the believers alongside the Aegean Sea, visited during Paul's second missionary journey.
For those who may be interested, at this year’s 2026 Tyndale Conference I will be presenting (via Zoom) a version of my paper “Inerrancy, Patterns of Behavior, and The Implications of an Early Gospel Publication.” The conference is being hosted by the Commonwealth Community Baptist Church in the Bronx, on…
In "A Trustworthy Gospel," I confront Gospel integrity challenges that arise when it is accepted that the earliest Gospels were not published until several decades after the resurrection. In "A Gospel for Cornelius," I counter Gospel integrity challenges that arise due to content and sequential discrepancies between the Gospels of…
For those of us who contend that Luke’s Gospel leveraged Matthew and Mark, it is important to carefully work through Luke’s prologue, where Luke speaks of the accounts of Jesus that were available prior to his own account. Within the text of Luke 1:2 there are interpretive options that potentially…
My thanks to those who coordinated and hosted the ISCA conference in Wichita last weekend. Celebration Baptist Church had a nice facility for the gathering, and we enjoyed meeting several of their people. It was also nice to connect and catch up with those from ISCA and attend several paper…
A Gospel for Cornelius: Discovering Mark's Affinity with Matthew now available.
Daniel Iglesias Grèzes has published an assessment of the Synoptic problem which affirms Matthean priority and aligns with the Augustinian hypothesis.
A favorable Amazon review of A Trustworthy Gospel by Cory Marsh: "This book doesn’t merely argue for Matthean priority, but for a very early publication of Matthew—preceding all of Paul’s letters (several years [not decades] after Jesus’s ascension). The argument is especially reasonable when one considers that all of Paul’s…
If we work under the premise that the early church was not hesitant in publishing Gospels as the need arose, then what should we speculate concerning Luke, which appears to have been written for a more sophisticated Greco-Roman audience than either Matthew or Mark? In this article, we survey a…
A new book, A Gospel for Cornelius: Discovering Mark's Affinity with Matthew to be published in September.