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It is generally recognized that James had access to a collection of the sayings of Jesus in a form that resembles Q rather than the edited form of Q that appears in the Gospels. (See Patrick J. Hartin, James and the Q Sayings of Jesus, Journal for the Study of the New Testament Suppl. Series 47 [Sheffield: JSOT, 1991].) However, the original saying about the prayer of petition that James found in Q emerges radically transformed from his hands.
The changes could have taken place before the final versions of Matthew and Luke. In this case the two evangelists would have been working from different versions of Q. It is simpler, however, to side with those scholars who argue that Luke deliberately introduced the changes. See, for example, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, The Gospel According to Luke (X-XXIV), Anchor Bible 28A (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985), p. 913; and Heinz Schürmann, Das Lukasevangelium 2.1, Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament (Freiburg: Herder, 1994), p. 218.
