Aspect and Prominence in the Synoptic Accounts of Jesus' Entry into Jerusalem 165 C) Comparison of the tense-forms of Mark 11,1-11 and Luke 19,28-40 The next table indicates the main verbs used in the narrative superstructure of Luke 19,28-40, together with the corresponding verses in the parallel passage in Mark 11. 19, 28 Having said these things, he was going on (ἐπορεύετο) ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29a And it happened (ἐγένετο) that, as he approached (ἤγγισεν) Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Mark 29b Olives, 11,1a 29c he sent (ἀπέστειλεν) two of his disciples, 1b saying (λέγων), “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a 29d-31 colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone 2-3 asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it’.” 32 Those who were sent ahead, having left, found (εὗρον) it just as he had told them. 4a-b As they were untying the colt, its owners said (εἶπαν) to them, 33 4c-5 “Why are you untying the colt?” 34 They said (εἶπαν), “The Lord needs it”. 6a 35a They led (ἤγαγον) it to Jesus, 7a 35b-c and, having thrown their cloaks on the colt, put (ἐπεβίβασαν) Jesus on it. 7b-c 36a As he was going (πορευομένου), 36b people were spreading (ὑπεστρώννυον) their cloaks on the road. 8a When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the 37 whole crowd of disciples began (ἤρξαντο) joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen, saying (λέγοντες), “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in 38 9-10 heaven and glory in the highest!” Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said (εἶπαν) to him, 39 “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” In response, he said (εἶπεν), 40 “I tell you, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out”. In the above passage, independent verbs in the imperfect feature twice. The first, in Luke 19,28, describes the resumption of the journey to Jerusalem which began in 9,51, so is a predictable event that Longacre would view as backgrounded with respect to the following events. The second, in 19,36b, follows a “present” (imperfective) genitive absolute, and is in the tense-form one would expect to use to portray an event that was happening “as he was going”. No HPs occur in this passage. However, a present (imperfective) participle (λέγων) is found in 19,29d where Mark 11,2 has a HP (λέγει). Instead of the HPs of Mark 11,1, Luke 19,29 has the combination of ἐγένετο and a temporal expression (“as he approached [ἤγγισεν] Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives”), both of which are in the