It has often been suggested that the Marcan material covered by the "great omission" of Luke (Mk vi, 45-viii, 26) was absent from the copy of Mark used by Luke, tho present in that used by Matthew. Reasons for Luke's omission of this long Marcan section have been given, and seem sufficient without the assumption of its absence from Luke's copy of Mark. But the theory of its absence has also important items directly against it. The section has the general Marcan characteristics. Mark has one hundred and forty-one historic presents; eighteen of them are in this section. He uses εὐθὺς thirty-four times, five in this section; πάλιν twenty-six times, five in this section. He is partial to the imperfects ἔλεγεν and ἔλεγον, which he uses fifty times (against Matthew's twenty-three and Luke's nine), six times in this section. The same habit of duplicate expression which occurs in other parts of his Gospel appears here. ὅ ἐστιν in the sense of "i.e.," peculiar to Mark among the evangelists, appears here twice (four times elsewhere in the Gospel). Seven out of the nine sections begin with καί. The section seems to be too homogeneous with the rest of the book to be from a different hand.[68] The foregoing considerations seem to render the hypothesis of Ur-Marcus superfluous. The phenomena for which it was designed to account are more easily and naturally explained by other suppositions. SOME REMARKABLE VERBAL RESEMBLANCES In the preceding pages sufficient consideration has been given not only to the fact, but to the manner, of the use of Mark by Matthew and Luke. Visual illustration, by the printing of a few passages in different kinds of type may serve to enforce some of the more general facts already brot out. The words (or parts of words) common to the three Synoptics, in the following passages, will be printed in heavy-faced type. Mt ix, 5-6: =τί= γάρ =ἐστιν Mk ii, 9-10_a_: =τί ἐστιν εὐκοπώτερον, εἰπεῖν=· εὐκοπώτερον, εἰπεῖν= =ἀφ=ίε=νταί τῷ παραλυτικῷ· =ἀφ=ίε=νταί σου αἱ ἁμαρτίαι, ἢ σου αἱ ἁμαρτίαι, ἢ εἰπεῖν· ἔγειρε καὶ= εἰπεῖν· ἔγειρε καὶ= ἆρον τὸν κράββατόν περιπάτει; =ἵνα δὲ εἰδῆτε σου καὶ ὕπαγε; =ἵνα δὲ εἰδῆτε ὅτι ἐξουσίαν ὅτι ἐξουσίαν ἔχει ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔχει ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἀφιέναι ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἀφιέναι ἁμαρτίας=, τότε λέγει ἁμαρτίας=, λέγει =τῷ παραλ=υτικῷ =τῷ παραλ=υτικῷ· σοὶ λέγω, =ἐγερ=θεὶς =ἆρ=όν =σου= =ἔγε=ι=ρ=ε =ἆρ=ον τὸν τὴν κλίνην καὶ ὕπαγε κράββατόν =σου= καὶ ὕπαγε =εἰς τὸν οἶκόν σου=. =εἰς τὸν οἶκόν σου=. Lk v, 23-24: =τί ἐστιν εὐκοπώτερον, εἰπεῖν=· =ἀφ=έω=νταί= σοι =αἱ ἁμαρτίαι σου ἢ εἰπεῖν· ἔγειρε καὶ=