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In addition to various translations of the Bible, the following tools were heavily used:

The method of common words is similar to the Triple Tradition with two differences.

Instead of seeing the synoptic gospels as a “problem,” the common word approach uses the differences in the parallel texts to extract what makes them the same, similar to the idea of the Triple Tradition. The four gospels are differing accounts of the same events decades after the events occurred. The multiple viewpounts offer different…

The common word approach focuses on the words found in at least three passages of the gospels. It puts aside tradition formed by the decisions that we believe that the Church has made over the centuries under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Two millennia of tradition have added depth to our beliefs. The common…

As early as the third century, Eusebius and Ammonius classified the gospel passages according based on similarities. Much later, biblical scholars wrote gospel harmonies.