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Beloved, I have organized the tables with all the words I am writing so you can find your way around the scriptorium without too much direction from me.

Section	Title	Mark	Luke	Matthew	John	Story	Table
I	PRAEFATIO						1
1	Prologus	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1	>>	1
	Excursus - Gospel					>>
	Excursus - Jerusalem					>>
6	Genealogia Jesu		3.23	1.2		>>	1

We had placed a bookmark here, for we were not able to return at first. All this happened a long time ago. First we had to pursue the order that Uncle Mark himself chose. And he omitted the Exordium entirely. But time passed. A year later, we returned to look at the texts from another point of view. A year later. For a whole year, these parts of books occupied a dozen tables in the scriptorium. Continual dusting and care, but no progress in this beginning section.

I learned much in that year. It is a dangerous thing to learn from these books. God has much to teach - not all without pain.

It is not that the introduction was of no interest. It shows the depth of tradition in the faith - and as I think on my own growth, it shows suffering, reproach, slavery, the exploitation of one by another, reaching back to Isaiah and Samuel. It contains great psalms that speak of deliverance and that will be sung for ever. It establishes a history linking the Messiah to the Exodus from Egypt. But all these things were out of scope for John Mark in his desire to move immediately into the ministry of Jesus. And all these were not needed for John who writes of the new creation in a strophic imitation of the first six days and a new understanding of the seventh.

But now we have read the Exordium, which we divided into 11 sections on the first table (though I have omitted one which I will return to later). One section, the genealogy, is repeated from the Prefatio. The other 10 present the announcements, the birth and the early years of Jesus.

Section	Title	Mark	Luke	Matthew	John	Story	Table
II	EXORDIUM						1
2	Annuntiatio nativitatis Ioannis		1.5			>>	1
3	Annuntiatio nativitatis Christi		1.26			>>	1
4	Visitatio Mariae		1.39			>>	1
5	Nativitas Ioannis		1.57			>>	1
	Proleptic - Glory					>>
7	Christi nativitas		2.1	1.18		>>	1
8	Natus Adoratur		2.8	2.1		>>	1
9	Circumcisio et praesentatio		2.21			>>	1
	Excursus - A Rite					>>
10	Fuga in Aegyptium et reditus			2.13		>>	1
11	Puer Jesus in Nazareth		2.39	2.22		--	1
12	Puer Jesus in Templo		2.41			>>	1

Section	Title	Mark	Luke	Matthew	John	Story	Table
III	PRAEPARATIO					>>	1
13	Ioannes Baptista praecursor Domini (Autumn 27)	1.2	3.1	3.1	1.19	>>	1
14	Ioannes paenitentiam praedicat		3.7	3.7		>>	1
15	Ioannes interrogantibus respondet		3.10			>>	1
16	Ioannes Christum evangelizat	1.7	3.15	3.11	1.24	>>	1
18	Baptismus Jesu (March 28)	1.9	3.21	3.13	1.29	>>	1
20	Proleptic - Tentatio	1.12	4.1	4.1		>>	1

Section	Title	Mark	Luke	Matthew	John	Story	Table
IV	INITIUM MINISTERII PUBLICI					>>	1
21	Primi discipuli				1.35	>>	1

So we begin the fourth of 18 sections. Here are counts of the number of cuttings we made for each of our authors.

Section	Title	Mark	Luke	Matthew	John
I	PRAEFATIO	1	1	1	1
II	EXORDIUM		9	5
III	PRAEPARATIO	4	8	5	3
IV	INITIUM MINISTERII PUBLICI				9

You can see that Mark and John both omit the Exordium as I noted earlier. Also that John has mostly unique material even though I have placed some of his sections in parallel with the others. Matthew and Luke both have their own special material sometimes in long sections. These may be unique to them or show influence the one on the other or the two on Mark. So Luke has 64 sections in a row that are his. You can see them on tables 7 and 8. Some few of these are unique to Luke, but many have parallels with Matthew and some with Mark. Luke has also the Sermo Domini (table 4) similar to Matthew's Sermo in Monte (table 3), but Matthew's is much longer. All four share the passion, the crucifixion, and the resurrection (tables 10, 11, 12).

V	MINISTERIUM IN GALILAEA	17	17	4	3
VI	SERMO IN MONTE			27
VII	SERMO DOMINI		7
VIII	MINISTERIUM IN GALILAEA	29	18	57	5
IX	PASSIO IMMINET	10	8	15	2
X	ITER IN JERUSALEM		64
XI	INFESTO SCENOPEGIAE JERUSALEM				13
XII	MINISTERIUM IN IUDAEA	8	7	9	7
XIII	ULTIMUM MINISTERIUM IN JERUSALEM	14	11	14	1
XIV	SERMO ESCHATALOGICUS	8	7	7
XV	CONCLUSIO TEMPORIS ANTE PASSIONEM NARRATI		1	5	3
XVI	PASSIO	23	24	25	31
XVII	RESURRECTIO	3	3	3	4
XVIII	EPILOGUS	2	1	1	2
	Totals	118	186	178	86

There are too many in my totals, but remember that the sections are counted twice when they are shared. I have worked out more counts also - for Matthew, Luke and John together share only one section! (Do you know which one?) Matthew, Mark, and Luke in contrast, share 36 of my cuttings. But perhaps I will share more of these at a later time in the story.