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>The majority of Biblical scholars have taken his word for it, but other scholars such as Joseph B. Tyson have put forth the more likely suggestion that the two gospels were sister texts, both descended from a common proto-Luke gospel. For example, in Luke 4:23, Jesus while in his hometown of Nazareth mentions healings in Capernaum that he says everyone is aware of, yet he visits Capernaum for the first time in 4:31 and everyone is “amazed”, which seems to indicate that the Capernaum visit originally preceded his hometown visit just as it does in Mark and Matthew. In fact, Tertullilan quotes the first line of Marcion's gospel as being a combination of 3:1 and 4:31, describing how Jesus descended directly from heaven and went first to Capernaum, indicating that beginning of Marcion's gospel featured a narrative order that better reflected the original. When the villagers of Nazareth get angry at Jesus and try to throw him off a cliff, Jesus walks right through them in 4:30, again indicating that the original version of Luke portrayed Jesus as spirit who only looked human, a belief known as Docetism
>The Marcionite concepts are based largely on the Hellenistic concepts of Stoicism, a philosophy based on virtue through knowledge that was heavily related to Cynicism. Acts 17:18 likewise operates in this milieu as it attempts to differentiate Christianity from the Greek philosophies by having Paul try to convert the Epicureans and Stoics he meets in Athens. As mentioned, Tertullian accused Marcion of editing the Gospel of Luke according to his own Stoic philosophy. Tertullian chided the Marcioinites and Gnostics for using Greek philosophy, asking “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”, apparently under the same impression as Philo that the concept of the divine Logos came from Moses
