Dragon
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An analogy I heard once still makes me smile;
Imagine a doctor sculpting a toe. A hundred years later and a thousand miles away a lawyer sculpts a finger 70 years after that a tax collector seven hundred miles away sculpts a nose.............
And so on throughout the centuries
When it's all said and done you have a sculpture as magnificent as that of David.
Coincidence?
To make the analogy correct, you have to ship the toe the doctor sculpted to the lawyer and then both the toe and finger to the tax collector and so on, so that they consciously and knowingly did their work with the other artists in mind. This was all before printing but not before publishing, and one gospel author had access to the work of those who had gone before, both canonical and non-canonical.
No coincidence.