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The Twelve were not merely charged with passing on the story but with continuing in the work
of Christ.130
So the question then is what to do with the information presented in the oral tradition
models. When reviewing the various literary solutions, it is apparent that there was definitely a
literary pre-history to the Synoptic gospels. Whether one holds to the Two-Source theory or the
Farrer theory, the literary interdependence of the gospels is quite clear. But, while the literary
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Ibid, location 1464, Kindle edition.