Luke

Luke is the other half of Paine's contradiction: where Matthew runs twenty-eight generations from David to Christ, Luke runs forty-three, and only David and Joseph appear in both lists. Paine notes that Luke's gospel speaks as if Christ never left Judea, directly conflicting with Matthew's flight into Egypt, and that Luke's version of Judas — keeping the money and buying a field for himself — cannot coexist with Matthew's version of a remorseful Judas returning the silver. Luke matters because he turns Paine's abstract claim about inspiration into a concrete, checkable failure: two books credited to the same Spirit cannot disagree on the facts.