bernard brandon scott, a member of the jesus seminar, questions the authenticity of the parable's context, suggesting that "the parable originally circulated separately from the question about neighborliness" and that the "existence of the lawyer's question in and , in addition to the evidence of heavy lukan editing" indicates the parable and its context were "very probably joined editorially by luke." a number of other commentators share this opinion, with the consensus of the jesus seminar being that verses were added by luke to "connect with the lawyer's question." on the other hand, the "keen rabbinic interest in the question of the greatest commandment" may make this argument invalid, in that luke may be describing a different occurrence of the question being asked. differences between the gospels suggest that luke is referring to a different episode from mark and matthew, and klyne snodgrass writes that "while one cannot exclude that luke has joined two originally separate narratives, evidence for this is not convincing." the "oxford bible commentary" notes: