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tradition. Five of the eight units of Q-context tradition in which Jesus directs questions to the disciples show this spectrum of relationship:
Only three of the eight units featuring questions by Jesus to the disciples in Q-context units are not perpetuated in Gos. Thom.:
In addition to the five units where Jesus questions disciples, seven of the ten units of Q-context tradition that direct questions to crowds are perpetuated in full or partial form in the Gos. Thom.:
Only three of the ten units are not perpetuated in the Gos. Thom.:
The amount of the question-material in Q-context that is perpetuated in the Gos. Thom. is remarkable. The manner in which it is perpetuated is also remarkable. Sometimes only one small item is present in the Gos. Thom. performance of the tradition; sometimes virtually the entire content is present. This is exactly the relationship a person should expect if the mode of transmission in the Gos. Thom. is oral.
The relation of questions in the Gospel of John to tradition in Gos. Thom. is very different from the relation of questions in Q tradition to Gos. Thom. One will not expect a similar percentage of perpetuation of tradition, since the Gospel of John is a much longer account than the Q material. But one might expect one or two units with a sustained clausal
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