The same kind of coincidences run uniformly all through the Gospel.

From the next chapter, Luke vi, Marcion had, in due order, the plucking of the ears of corn on the sabbath day ('rubbing them with their hands,' Luke and Marcion alone), the precedent of David and his companions and the shewbread, the watching _of the Pharisees_ (so Luke only) to see if He would heal on the sabbath day, the healing of the withered hand--with an exact resemblance to the text of Luke and divergence from the other Gospels (licetne animam liberare an perdere?
[Greek: psuchaen apolesai] Luke, [Greek: apokteinai] Mark), in the order and words of Luke alone, the retreat into the mountain for prayer, the selection of the twelve Apostles, and then, in a strictly Lucan form and introduced precisely at the same point, the Sermon on the Mount, the blessing on 'the poor' (not the 'poor in spirit'), on those 'who hunger' (not on those 'who hunger and thirst after righteousness'), on those 'who weep, for they shall laugh' (not on those 'who mourn, for they shall be comforted'), with an exact translation of St.Luke and difference from St.Matthew, the clause relating to those who are persecuted and reviled: then follow the 'woes;' to the rich, 'for ye have received your consolation;' to 'those who are full, for they shall hunger;' to 'those who laugh now, for they shall mourn:' and so on almost verse by verse.
It is surely needless to go further.

There are indeed very rarely what seem to be reminiscences of the other Gospels (e.g.
'esurierunt discipuli' in the parallel to Luke vi.

1), but the total amount of resemblance to St.Luke and divergence from St.
Matthew and St.Mark is overwhelming.

Of course the remainder of the evidence can easily be produced if necessary, but I do not think it will long remain in doubt that our present St.Luke was really the foundation of the Gospel that Marcion used.
INDEX I.
References to the Four Gospels.
The asterisk indicates that the passage in question is discussed in some detail.
_St.Matthew._ I.