6 Joost Smit Sibinga 5. Chart 1. Mark 14:1-52: The Number of Syllables in the Words, spoken by Jesus. Annex Incipit Ἀμήν Incipit aliter (Sum-total) Bethany (a) (1) 14:6b-9 89 46 Preparing ... (2) 13b-15 115 [250] The betrayal (b) (3) 18b 24 (4) 20b-21 81 | 196 [355] The Lord’s Supper (5) 22bc 11 (c) (6) 24b-25 23 51 [440] On the way ... (7) 27b-28 53 | 64 ( To Peter ) (d) (8) 30b 32 [525] Gethsemane (9) 32b 12 (10) 34bc 25 (11) 36b-e 36 ( To Peter ) (12) 37c-38 49 (13) 41b-42 62 [709] Arrest (14) 48b-49 56 | 240 [765] Mark 14:1-52: 112 153 500 or: 265 + 500 = 765 s. 6. Jesus is, of course, not the only speaker: in Mark 14:2 one hears the Jerusalem authorities; in 14:4 ‘some people’, in 14:12 and 19 the disciples; in 14:29 and 31 Peter and in 14:44-45 Judas. Moreover, it stands to reason that the spoken parts of the text should not unduly be isolated from the narrative. So Chart 2 provides a survey of the number of syllables used in the text of Mark 14:1-52, duly distinguishing Narrative and Discourse - even if at this point it is not practical or even possible to properly discuss textual and other details of the data we record, or to go into the comments and questions they may raise.13 The Survey of Chart 2, however, is indipensable and should help us not to forget or neglect the actual Markan context of the words of Jesus we are studying. 13 In Mark 14:33 [τὸν] Ἰάκωβον καὶ [τὸν] Ἰωάννην (N-A26) we read τόν only once and count the names as four syllables each. From a logical point of view, the names of James and John should be treated the same way: either without an article (as in the majority of witnes- ses) or with the article (as in A B K W f¹³ al). With one, that is: only one article the original text presented precisely the lack of consistency that accounts for each of these corrections. In 14:47 we read εἷς δέ τις we the majority of editors, including the Greek-English Diglot (1961), K. Aland, Synopsis quattuor evangeliorum (1964), and H. Greeven, Synopse der drei ersten Evangelien (1981). See also A. Yarbro Collins, Mark. A Commentary (Hermeneia), Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007, p. 683.