The Contents of 'Q'
According to John S. Kloppenborg's
Q Parallels: Synopsis, Critical Notes & Concordance.


For reasons plural, I would like to hold up the exemplar of Q Parallels: Synopsis, Critical Notes & Concordance, by John S. Kloppenborg of the University of Toronto [presently], Polebridge Press, Sonoma, California, 1988-- when I wish to model most-useful Q studies... as comes the case now when I intend to cite the entire contents per Matthew and Luke of Q. I know that Dr. Kloppenborg himself prefers the great work The Critical Edition of Q, edited by James M. Robinson, Paul Hoffman, and also Dr. John S. Kloppenborg, Augsburg Fortress Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2000. Nevertheless, for myself and my own scholarship, pragmatically speaking, I find myself referring to Q Parallels 25 times and on the 26th time to the Critical Edition of Q; I like Q Parallels broad use of additional sources from the Nag Hammadi Library and from Hebrew and the Apostolic Fathers, etc.; I like the bibliographic information and simplifying diagrams; I like the trimness and crispness and comprehensiveness that somehow seems lacking in the Critical Edition of Q. But most to the point is this: as long as it is assumed by the run of scholars that Jesus' first language was Semitic [Aramaic/Hebrew], then I have trouble with the very first logical premise of the Critical Edition of Q, which is that it lacks an Aramaic/Hebrew substrate.

For these reasons I have chosen Q Parallels-- over top of Dr. Kloppenborg's preference-- to represent the best of what I want to say on Q. Really, mutatis mutandis there is little difference between one scholar's inclusions as to what is in Q and what is not; and besides I am looking for structures of thought which may lie in another language than the one presented, which to my thinking impies that I shall have to do much digging in a 'molar' way in order to deconstruct the 'metaphors of speech' implied in Aramaic vis a vis Koine Greek.

Here is my list from Kloppenborg's Q Parallels of the Q citations in Matthew and Luke:

• Matthew 3:1-6 Luke 3:1-4
• Matthew 3:7-10 Luke 3:7-9, 10-14
• Matthew 3:11-12 Luke 3:15, 16-17
• Matthew 3:13-17 Luke 3:21-22
• Matthew 4:1-11 Luke 4:1-13
• Matthew 5:1-2 Luke 6:12, 17,20a
• Matthew 5:3-12 Luke 6:20b-26
• Matthew 5:38-47; 7:12 Luke 6:27-35
• Matthew 5:48; 7:1-2 Luke 6:36-38
• Matthew 15:13-14; 10:24-25 Luke 6:39-40
• Matthew 7:3-5 Luke 6:41-42
• Matthew 7:15-20; 12:33-35 Luke 6:43-45
• Matthew 7:21-27 Luke 6:46-49
• Matthew 8:5-13 Luke 7:1-10
• Matthew 11:2-6 Luke 7:18-23
• Matthew 11:7-11 Luke 7:24-28
• Matthew 11:12-15 Luke 16:16
• Matthew 21:28-32 Luke 7:29-30
• Matthew 11:16-19 Luke 7:31-35
• Matthew 8:18-22 Luke 9:57-62
• Matthew 9:36-38; 10:1-16 Luke 10:1-12
• Matthew 11:20-24 Luke 10:13-15
• Matthew 10:40 Luke 10:16-20
• Matthew 11:25-27 Luke 10:21-22
• Matthew 13:16-17 Luke 10:23-24
• Matthew 6:7-13 Luke 11:1-4
• Matthew 7:7-11 Luke 11:5-13
• Matthew 1222-30; 9:32-34 Luke 11:14-23
• Matthew 12:43-45 Luke 11:24-26
• [no parallel] Luke 11:27-28
• Matthew 12:38-42 Luke 11:16, 29-32
• Matthew 5:14-16; 6:22-23 Luke 11:33-36
• Matthew 23:1-39; 13:34-35 Luke 11:37-54; 13:34-35
• Matthew 10:26-27 Luke 12:1-3
• Matthew 10:28-31 Luke 12:4-7
• Matthew 10:32-33 Luke 12:8-9
• Matthew 12:31-32 Luke 12:10
• Matthew 10:17-20, 23 Luke 12:11-12
• [no parallel] Luke 12:13-21
• Matthew 6:25-34 Luke 12:22-32
• Matthew 6:19-21 Luke 12:33-34
• [no parallel] Luke 12:35-38
• Matthew 24:42-44 Luke 12:39-40
• Matthew 24:45-51 Luke 12:41-48
• Matthew 10:34-36 Luke 12:49-53
• Matthew 16:2-3 Luke12:54-56
• Matthew 5:25-26 Luke 12:57-59
• Matthew 13:31-33 Luke 13:18-21
• Matthew 7:13-14; 22-23 Luke 13:22-27
• Matthew 8:11-12; 20:16 Luke 13:28-30
• Matthew 8:11-12; 20:16 Luke 13:28-30
• Matthew 23:37-39 Luke 13:31-35
• Matthew 12:11-12 Luke 14:1-6
• Matthew 23:6-12 Luke 14:7-12;18:14
• Matthew 22:1-10 Luke 14:15-24
• Matthew 10:37-39 Luke 14:25-27; 17:33
• Matthew 5:13 Luke 14:34-35
• Matthew 18:10, 12-14 Luke 15:1-2, 3-7
• [no parallel] Luke 15:8-10
• Matthew 6:24 Luke 16:13
• Matthew 11:12-13; 5:18, 32 Luke 16:16-18
• Matthew 18:15-17, 18:21-22 Luke 17:5-6
• [no parallel] Luke 17:20-21
• Matthew 24:23-28, 37-42 Luke 17:22-37
• Matthew 25:14-30 Luke 19:11-27
• Matthew 19:27-29 Luke 22:24-30

...This is virtually identical to the list in Q Parallels: for unclear reasons Dr. Kloppenborg includes a passage he calls 'incipit,' material not in Q but relevant as an introduction, but with no text in either Matthew or Luke.

I do hope the material assembled herein is useful for the reader. Since Q Parallels is out of print, reference to the material information listed in this entry should prove useful to a Q scholar as we progress in our studies.