IV. INITIUM MINISTERII PUBLICI

We begin a long section in John's book. It covers to the end of the first table and a fifth of the second table. As I consider the whole, I will I think include some of the later sections of the other three among these beginnings of John. Each section is a cutting such as can be rearranged now that I have had them severed from the codices.

These are the section titles as I have formed them in your tongue:

Section	A title	Mark	Luke	Matthew	John	Table
21	Primi discipuli				1.35	1
22	Nuptiae in Cana factae ( this happened on a Tuesday)				2.1	1
33	In Nazareth praedicat		4.16			2
34	Vocatio discipulorum	1.16		4.18		2
35	In synagoga Capharnaum docet	1.21	4.31			2
36	Daimoniacus in synagoga	1.23	4.33			2
23	In Capharnaum manet				2.12	1
24	Primum iter in Jerusalem				2.13	1
271	Jesus in Jerusalem, Bethaniam redit	11.11		21.10		9
272	Ficulnea maledicta	11.12		21.18		9
25	Purgatio templi (April 28)				2.14	2
275	Filculnea arefacta	11.20		21.20		9
276	De potestate Jesu et baptismo Ioannis	11.27	20.1	21.23		9
26	Ministerium in Jerusalem				2.23	2
27	Colloquium cum Nicodemo				3.1	2
253	Benedictio parvulorum	10.13	18.15	19.13		8
280	De censu Caesaris	12.13	20.20	22.15		9
28	Ministerium in Iudaea				3.22	2
29	Testimonium Ioannis Baptistae				3.23	2
17	Ioannes in carcerum mittitur (in the 16th year of Tiberius)		3.19			1
109	Patri confitetur			11.25		5
45	Quaestio ieiunii	2.18	5.33			2

John is unique among the writers. He measures his phrases in careful balance, reasoning in circles from the outside edge to the center and then back to the circumference. Every section has such circles. I hope I will be able to show you some of these as we proceed.