Magnus:

Not necessarily. All one needs to believe and know is:

(1) that Israel is unfaithful and so is subject to covenantal judgment (Deut 28-32)

(2) that Rome often wins her victories by seige (which was a common strategy).

Thus, the Lucan differences are not an alteration of Jesus' message in the strict sense but developments of the implications of what Jesus said in that historical context. Such remarks could precede (or come after) AD 70. My own view is that Luke is writing in the late sixties where he is able to see how what Jesus said is in the process of being fulfilled (so not ex eventu).

dlb.

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