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Troppo netta l'antistorica demarcazione fra "buoni" e "cattivi". Cattolici e luterani sono tutti avidi, malvagi e oppressori, gli anabattisti tutti idealisti che si battono per i diritti di tutti... No one can follow two masters, because they'll either hate one and love the other, or they'll be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the day of the Son of Humanity. (27) In those days they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and swept all of them away. (30) That's what it will be like on the day the Son of Humanity is revealed. When John heard all these things, he sent his disciples (19) to ask him, "Are you the coming one, or should we look for someone else?"

Both British novelist Stewart Home and American novelist David Liss have interpreted Q as an "anti-novel", although their respective analyses come to different conclusions. While Home's review emphasized the social, political and subcultural references embedded in the plot, [3] Liss' review dismissed the book as unnecessary and self-referential. [4] Everyone who divorces his wife and remarries is unfaithful to her, and whoever marries someone who's divorced is unfaithful too. Then the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the empires of the world and their glory and told him, (6) "I'll give you all these, (7) if you'll bow to me." Some demanded him to show a sign. (29) But he said, "This is an evil generation. It demands a sign, but no sign will be provided except the sign of Jonah! (30) As Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Humanity will be a sign to this generation. (31) The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear Solomon's wisdom; and look, something greater than Solomon is here. (32) The people of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because they changed in response to Jonah's announcement, and look, something greater than Jonah is here. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert (2) to be tested by the devil. He didn't eat anything for forty days […] he was hungry.

If Mark was a source of Matthew and Luke, then…

The other came and said, 'Master, (21) I know you're a strict man, reaping where you didn't sow and gathering where you didn't scatter. I went out and hid your mina in the ground. Look, here's what belongs to you!' Since no manuscripts of Q have survived from antiquity ,the translation is based on the Greek text printed in The Critical Edition of Q. The versification follows that of Luke and Matthew. For additional information, see the introduction to the PDF version.

Die Geschichte wird von dem anonymen Protagonisten erzählt und sein Antagonist ist Q, ein Agent der katholischen Kirche. Der Protagonist ist Aktivist auf der Seite der Ketzer, frühe Marxisten und Feinde der aufkeimende Kapitalismus, der Antagonist steht auf der Seite von Kirche und Staat. A certain person went on a trip. (13) He called ten of his servants, gave them ten minas, and told them, 'Do business with this until I return.'La voce narrante, poi, è straordinariamente odiosa, con quel tono da autocommiserazione continua, "quante ne ho passate, quante ne ho viste"... e che noia! Senza contare che lui è sempre forte, intrepido, dalla parte dei deboli e del bene, si mette solo (ovviamente) con donne "bellissime" e coraggiosissime, ecc ecc. He told the crowds who went out to be baptized, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the fury to come? (8) So bear fruit worthy of change! Don't start to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our ancestor,' because I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones. The whole book offers an irritating point of view for somebody who is used to lutheranism as the driving force behind the reformation in Germany. In Q, Luther is rather part of the establishment and the papacy is instrumentalizing him against the more violent arms of the reformation as well as to curb the ambitions of the emperor Karl V. Here, the anabaptist movement is the focus of the story. They are mostly militant and form the left wing of the reformation. They advocate the renouncement of private property, a liberal sexual moral and most of all don't accept any profane government. The true evil force in Q are the ones who pull the strings behind the scenes: beside the inquisition these are foremost the bankers represented by the Fuggers. Love your enemies, (28) and pray for those who persecute you. (35) You'll become children of your Father, who makes the sun rise on those who are evil and those who are good, and sends rain on those who are just and those who are unjust. To what, then, can I compare this generation? What's it like? (32) It's like children sitting in the marketplaces calling to each other: