Since the advent of modern Biblical studies two centuries again, scholars have concluded that the gospels we call Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are not the accounts of independent eyewitnesses, but are instead the literarily dependent on one another. This means that their authors did not all sit down to write from scratch: either one was first and the other two worked from it, or the third worked from the second which worked from the first, or perhaps all three were working from a lost source. The most accepted explanation is that Mark was the earliest gospel, which the authors of Matthew and Luke used to construct their own texts. However, these latter two gospels overlap in other places, especially around important sayings of Jesus like the Beatitudes. This means that their authors would have had to have been sharing a second, lost source which scholars call “Q” from the German quelle (“source”). John Hamer of Toronto Centre Place will make the case for Q and the “Two Source Hypothesis,” while also considering the alternate Farrer and Matthean Priority hypotheses.