The gospels also betray a sense of literary interdependence at the level of the whole gospel. Excluding the
Passion narrative, there are about 36 pericopes common to all three synoptic gospels. The stories are
evidently quite portable within each of the gospels. There is no particular reason why the rejection of Jesus
at Nazareth must happen in the middle of Jesus' ministry as Matthew and Mark narrate it. Luke, after all,
chooses to put the story at the beginning. So the evange