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Which was first: Matthew or Mark?

Modern Biblical scholarship generally holds that mark was written first, despite the church tradition. The majority of NT scholars hold to Markan priority (either the two-source hypothesis of Holtzmann or the four-source hypothesis of Streeter). https://bible.org/article/synoptic-problem Still, as we enter a new century, some form of the Two Source hypothesis continues to be preferred by an overwhelming majority of critically trained New Testament scholars as the theory that is best able to resolve the synoptic problem. http://virtualreligion.net/forum/complete.html It is the near-universal position of scholarship that the Gospel of Matthew is dependent upon the Gospel of Mark. This position is accepted whether one subscribes to the dominant Two-Source Hypothesis or instead prefers the Farrer-Goulder hypothesis. http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/matthew.html Argument from Grammar I am no expert in Koine greek, so will just quote a couple of web sites. Stein lists