This is thrown into marked relief by the contrast with the other Synoptics; the only two places where Matthew appears to have the construction are both ambiguous, iii.

15 (doubtful reading, probably [Greek: auto]), and xxvii.

14 ([Greek: apekrithae auto pros oude hen rhaema]).

No other evangelist speaks so much of [Greek: Pneuma hagion], i.

15, 35, 41, 67, ii.