Marcan is a 6 letter English word.
You can make 84 anagrams from letters in Marcan (aacmnr).
1900-05; Latin Mārc(us) Mark + -an
At the same time he brings in additional matter in connexion with most of the Marcan sections.
The addition by Matthew and Luke of the words ( ) is held by some to indicate their use of a Marcan text different from ours.
Why should not Luke feel free to take precisely that part of a Marcan phrase which Matthew has taken—if he wanted it?
Matthew here conflates his Q material with his Marcan material.
At the opening of the 3d chapters of Matthew and Luke, these writers begin their use of Marcan material.
No single motive, especially no one so-called “tendency” of either writer explains all his modifications of his Marcan source.
He similarly omits the Marcan account of the call of the fishermen, substituting the story of the miraculous draught.
Luke may have omitted the Marcan narrative because of this parallel of it in his own Gospel.
In each instance Matthew has inserted the quotation into a Marcan narrative.
Of the peculiarly Marcan words, some prove nothing in this connection.