Luke 9:10-17

The Feeding of the Multitude (Mark 6:31 *, Matthew 14:13 *). Lk., like Mt., abbreviates Mk He fixes the scene at Bethsaida; in Mk. Jesus crosses the lake to that town afterwards, but perhaps Mk. is wrong and means Capernaum.

Lk. omits the walking of Jesus on the water, and other material found in Mark 6:45 to Mark 8:26, e.g. (a) the feeding of the 4000, (b) the debate on the washing of hands and the traditions of the elders, and (c) the healing of the Greek woman's daughter. He may have deemed (a) needless repetition, (b) uninteresting to Gentile readers, (c) offensive to the same circle, or at any rate because it was distinctly an exceptional case for Jesus. A few small pieces of this Marcan block are used later. It is possible, of course, that Lk. did not deliberately omit all this material; it may have been accidentally omitted by him, or it may not have been contained in the copy of Mk. used by him. See Oxford Studies in the Synoptic Problem, pp. 61ff., 389ff.