The shortest of the four and generally held to be the earliest. It moves fast — the word “immediately” carries much of the narrative — explains Jewish custom as it goes, which suggests it was not written for Jewish readers, and ends in a way nobody has settled.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. St Mark shares wording with 5 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
man; for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, orChapter 12 and Mark 12
shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me: it were better for him that a millstoneMark 9 and Matthew 18
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise theLuke 5 and Mark 2
camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loinsHomily 10 and Mark 1
camel's hair, and a leathern girdleSermon 38 and Mark 1
Quotation, here, means a named attribution or a commentary working through the text — not a guess from shared vocabulary.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
St Mark shares fewer than twenty of the sixty counted names with any other book here. That is a fact about its vocabulary and nothing more; a book can be deeply indebted to another and share almost no names with it.
Translator: Gregory Martin / Challoner, 1750. Source: Gutenberg 8348.
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