Editing Two-source hypothesis (section)

=== Marcan priority ===
{{Main|Marcan priority}}
The 2SH explains the features of the triple tradition by proposing that both Matthew and Luke used Mark as a source. Mark appears more 'primitive': his diction and grammar are less literary than Matthew and Luke, his language is more prone to redundancy and obscurity, his [[Christology]] is less supernatural, and he makes more frequent use of [[Aramaic of Jesus|Aramaic]]. The more sophisticated versions of Mark's pericopes in Matthew and Luke must be either the result of those two "cleaning up" Mark, if his is the first gospel, or of Mark "dumbing down" Matthew and/or Luke, if he was later. Critics regard the first explanation as the more likely. On a more specific level, Marcan priority seems to be indicated due to instances where Matthew and Luke apparently omit explanatory material from Mark, where Matthew adds his own theological emphases to Mark's stories, and in the uneven distribution of Mark's stylistic features in Matthew.<ref name="synop">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20041119143510/http://www.hypotyposeis.org/synoptic-problem/2004/09/two-source-hypothesis.html "The Two-Source Hypothesis", Synoptic Problem Website]}}</ref>