50 Hughson T. Ong content but a low affective content. Both the essential information and the specific course of action are clear; however, the response was perhaps antagonistic (cf. Mark 12,15). By contrast, Jesus’ statement “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death” (Mark 14,34) may have puzzled his disciples, but would certainly have a high affective content. Integrating the aforesaid theories into these social scales I now turn to evaluate our three chronological episodes in Mark 14,32-65. I follow these two simple steps. First, the participants are evaluated by means of the social distance or status scale, the social context or setting by the for- mality scale, and the purpose or topic of conversation by the functional scale. The levels of information and affective content in the functional scale are analyzed by the theories of social identity and accommodation as discussed above. And second, I determine the type of code-switch and the likelihood of the language Jesus would have spoken in the various instances where code-switching could have occurred. 4. Analysis of Mark 14:32–65 This pericope contains three chronological episodes that occurred immediately after Jesus’ last supper with the Twelve (14,12-31). The duration of these three episodes probably lasted for several hours before Jesus was taken from the Sanhedrin to Pilate (15,1). In these episodes, Jesus grieved for his upcoming betrayal by his own disciple and suffering in the hands of the Jewish leaders. He prayed feverishly to the Father for deliverance, endured the mockery and persecution of the people, and acknowledged his identity as the Messiah. In each of these episodes, he interacted with different groups and types of people, traveled from one location to another, and had different topics of conversation with his audiences. As a multilingual, Jesus must have switched codes in between these various events. Let us first look at the episode at Gethsemane with his disciples. (See Appendix 1 for a summary analysis of these episodes.) a) Mark 14,32-42 — Jesus’ Prayer at Gethsemane In this episode, the participants, social setting, and Jesus’ purpose/ topic of conversation with the disciples and the Father are relatively consistent. However, we can observe from vv. 32-36 that the number of participants in conversation with Jesus decreases from the Eleven, to the Three, and finally to just Jesus and the Father. Similarly, Jesus inter- acted with these three sets of audiences in three different but proximate places, while his message to each of them proceeds from somewhat being vague (or incomplete) to being explicit. This process appears to be twice