24 Alexander C. Loney We also observe that the two parts of the cadence need not follow in order, directly one after the other. Before the second part of the cadence follows in v. 15 with the imperfectives δ δασκεν and δοξαζ μενος, a sentence intervenes in v. 14b to state that the news about Jesus has spread widely. This sentence is conveyed with an aorist verb, ξ λθεν, signifying that the action of the sentence is conceived as a whole from an external viewpoint. It continues the diegetic mode of vv. 2b-14a and records this action as historical fact. As a diegetic statement, it serves also to com- ment upon the following mimetic statement in a way that summarizes the historical result of the unfolding actions of the experiential imperfec- tives. When such diegetic statements intervene upon a boundary-marking cadence, they provide information from a narrator’s viewpoint directly relevant and usually subordinate to the cadential sequence. The structure of this transitional section between pericopes overlaps so that the truly independent narrative information of each is divided into vv. 1b-13 and vv. 16-30. However, if each pericope is properly considered in its entirety, including its boundary transitions, the two are divided vv. 1-15 and vv. 14-3062. The next pericope begins with the transitional section just discussed of vv. 14-15, which, in addition to its cadential function, sets up the next narrative section by describing the general pattern of the warm reception of Jesus’ early ministry in Galilee. As an exception to this background, the pericope accounts one particular poor reception of Jesus at Nazareth. This pericope is, in style, similar to the preceding pericope. It relates a simple historical narrative bereft of all but a few extraneous background details, and the most dramatic content of the narrative occurs in direct speech. It also exhibits the predominance of perfective (21) to imperfec- tive forms (10) expected for the diegetic mode of discourse. However, it does exhibit a significant non-direct speech section (20b-22) dominated by imperfective forms, unlike the preceding pericope. The other imper- fectives of the passage occur, as expected, at the edges of the section, with the single exception of κο οντες of v. 28. Additionally, three perfect verbs, or “stative” forms with respect to aspect, occur in this nar- rative. One of these stative forms is a regular formula for the citation of scripture, ν γεγραμμ νον (17). The same verb occurs three times in the 62 This overlapping division of these two pericopes is contra several major commentators. I.H. Marshall, The Gospel of Luke: A Commentary on the Greek Text (Grand Rapids 1978) 176-77, seems to put vv. 14-15 on their own, as does Schürmann, Das Lukasevangelium, 222-24, G. Schneider, Das Evangelium nach Lukas (Gütersloh 1977) I, 104-05, Fitzmeyer, Luke, 521-24, Bock, Luke, 390-93, and Green, Luke, 204-06. Goulder, Luke, 299 and Bovon, Das Evangelium, 204-16, have the passage as part of the following pericope (14-30).