The genealogy of the synoptic gospels is still of current interest. Different hypotheses exist regarding the similarities or the repetition of entire texts from one gospel to the next among the 3 gospels according to Matthew, Mark, and Luke. A team of Japanese researchers has identified all the segments common to these three gospel authors and has built a contingency table describing their similarities. A statistical Analysis of the contingency table calculated from the synoptic gospels is done by taxicab correspondence analysis (TCA). TCA produced stable and interpretable results, from which we deduced a variant of two gospel hypothesis.