For instance, he is silent as to the healing of the demoniac at Capernaum, but, instead of this, he gives us two Gadarene demoniacs, at the same time modifying the language in which he describes this latter incident after the pattern of the former; in like manner he speaks of the healing of two blind men at Jericho, but only because he had passed over the healing of the blind man at Bethsaida.

Of a somewhat similar nature is the adding of the ass's colt to the ass in the account of the Triumphal Entry.

There are also fragmentary sayings repeated in the Gospel in a way that would be natural in a later editor piecing together different documents and finding the same saying in each, but unnatural in an eye- and ear-witness drawing upon his own recollections.

Some clear cases of this kind would be Matt.v.29, 30 (= Matt.xviii.8, 9) the offending member, Matt.
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32 (= Matt.xix.