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Johnny B is not entirely absent in Marcion's as his disciples appear ex nihilo and confront Jesus at some point.

So even if earlier than any received synoptic, Marcion's reacts to at least some pre-canonical gospel of the synoptic persuasion.

The allusion to Eliah as well as the vinegar stuff are late additions, unknown to Luke, who prefers a reference to Psalm 31:6. The spirit (pneuma, rouah) leaving Jesus is the charismatic gift which drove the heroes of the Old Testament. So Isaiah said that God's spirit was upon him and that God had ...

Paul is a Marcionite invention, and thus he rails necessarily against the law and the Jewish god.

Only the Catholic interpolators and redactors tried to force Paul to worship the Jewish god, but they had to struggle with editorial fatigue in some places.

The secret name in the vision and in Philippan's is of course the tetragrammaton, which is not permitted to be pronounced. Still Saint Ephrem identified in his Hymn to the Cross Jesus with the Jewish God, saying that he abandoned the chariot of the four beasts (see Ezekiel) and picked up the cross. ...