48 MAARTEN J.J. MENKEN creation. Zech 13,7 just belonged to those OT passages that were understood as referring to Jesus’ passion and death. There are no reasons to assume that the evangelist, who normally made use of the LXX, was responsible for the textual form of the quotation in- sofar it is a revised LXX text or a fresh translation from the He- brew. Mark may have been responsible for patajw, but it is equal- ¥ ly possible that this verbal form was already pre-Markan 27. 3. Matthew 26,31 When rewriting Mark’s Gospel, Matthew has not altered very much the interpretation that the quotation from Zech 13,7 receives in the narrative context, but he has slightly modified its textual form 28. We read in Matt 26,31: patajw ton poimena, ¥ ù ¥ I will strike the shepherd, k a ı d i a s k o r p i s u h s o n t a i ta ù ¥ ù and the sheep of the flock will be probata thv poımnhv. ¥ ˜ ¥ scattered. In the second line, there are two differences between Matthew and Mark: the sequence of subject and predicate has been inverted, and thv poımnhv, “of the flock”, has been added. How to explain ˜ ¥ these differences? It can be said that, generally, Matthew has edited the OT quotations which he found in his sources (Mark, Q, other source materials) in much the same way as he edited the rest of these sources 29. This applies without difficulty to the change of sequence. Matthew has preferred the common word order of first Scripture in the Markan Passion Narrative (Library of NT Studies 384; London 2009) 206. C. BREYTENBACH, “The Minor Prophets in Mark’s Gospel”, The Minor 27 Prophets in the New Testament (eds. M.J.J. MENKEN – S. MOYISE) (Library of NT Studies 377; London 2009) 27-37, esp. 28-29, thinks that all differences between Mark’s quotation and the LXX are due to the evangelist rewriting the LXX in view of the new context; similarly, but ascribing the differences to Jesus, R.N. LONGENECKER, Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period (Grand Rapids, MI 21999) 55. This seems rather improbable, because two out of the three differences create better agreement with the Hebrew, and the third one is due to a general early Christian thought. Luke, on the other hand, has omitted both the quotation from Zech 13,7 28 and the flight of the disciples, and he makes “all acquaintances” of Jesus ob- serve his death “at a distance” (23,49, cf. Pss 38,12; 88,9). See M.J.J. MENKEN, Matthew’s Bible. The Old Testament Text of the 29