Based on decades of painstaking, collaborative research, the authors of this volume have succeeded in making a historic breakthrough in understanding the Gospel of Luke. They have discovered never-before-seen objective data, proving that the author of the Gospel of Luke systematically and respectfully used sequences of material from the canonical Gospel of Matthew in writing his own Gospel. The research results indicate that, contrary to standard scholarly belief, there is no need to suppose that Luke made any use of the Gospel of Mark or of Q. The authors thus take Gospel studies once and for all beyond the critical and theological impasse precipitated by the Q hypothesis toward a more rational understanding of the Gospel-making activity of the earliest Christian generation. Their report comes just as the international community of biblical scholars prepares to publish its meticulous reconstruction of the lost source Q, leading William R. Farmer to comment that