28 Alexander C. Loney However, this pericope has a greater internal complexity than the pre- vious two, as can be seen in that imperfective forms (24) outnumber perfective forms (19), and it includes four different sections of mimetic discourse, two of internal, “foregrounded description” and two as parts of aspectual cadences. To facilitate discussing these more intricate sections, I shall conduct the description of this pericope somewhat differently than the last two. I shall proceed by outlining the pericope’s whole structure sequentially, drawing particular attention to the sections of mimetic dis- course. The first mimetic section is the second part of the initial cadence of vv. 31-32. Unlike the initial cadence of the previous pericope (14-15), which served dually to close the preceding pericope and open the fol- lowing one, this cadence is distinct from the previous final cadence. It possesses the usual aorist of motion (κατ λθεν) pointing toward a new setting for the pericope (ε ς Καφαρναο μ π λιν τ ς Γαλιλα ας). It also possesses two imperfective forms (διδ σκων and ξεπλ σσοντο) that “vividly” open the action of the story and introduce key thematic mate- rial – here, that the crowds were full of amazement and gave Jesus a good reception compared to the ill one he had received in Nazareth. This mimetic section ends in v. 33 with the resumption of the diegetic mode, which continues through v. 35. Within this diegetic section, two backgrounding imperfectives occur, χων (33) and λ γων (35). Both of these are subordinate to accompanying aorists that convey the narrative backbone. λ γων is less obviously backgrounding, but when λ γω is em- ployed in the form of a participle of means, it routinely is as a backgrounded action. In v. 35, the main narrative action is that Jesus “rebuked them” ( πετ μησεν), and backgrounded is that he did this “by means of saying…”. The second mimetic section conducted by imperfectives runs from verse 36 to 37. This section relates the reaction of the people to Jesus’ ministry and gives the reader an internal perspective from within the crowd. This parallels vv. 20b-22 of the previous pericope, where the crowd’s wonder is transcribed as though viewed on the spot via the mi- metic mode. Such an account of experience lends itself to the mimetic mode, since the primary effect of the mode in this setting is to show the crowd reacting to the surrounding historical narrative internally, in a way that allows the reading audience to empathize with the experience of the crowd, as though one of them. V. 37 is the continuation of this reac- tion into the region in general, which also is shown as an observed action with χος, rather than the people, as grammatical subject. In v. 38, the diegetic mode returns with two aorists ( ναστ ς and ε σ λθεν). Despite the previously mentioned large body of interpreta- tion that has considered this to be the beginning of a new pericope, a