form by the distressful question, Master, carest thow not that we perish ? and the command to the sea as to a raging mon- ster, Peace! Be still! (iv. 38, 39).
In the narrative of the feeding of the five thousand, only Mark relates the Saviour’s question, How many loaves have ye? Go and see (vi. 88). An oriental crowd abounds in color, and to Mark we are indebted for the gay picture of the crowds ar- ranged on the green grass, in companies, like flower-beds with their varied hues. He alone specifies the division of the two fishes among them all (vi. 89, 41). He tells how Jesus, walk- ing on the sea, would have passed by the disciples’ boat ; he ex- presses their cry of terror at Christ’s appearance by a stronger word than Matthew, using the compound verb dvéxpafav where Matthew uses the simple verb éxpafav. He adds, they all saw him (vi. 48-50). When Jesus descends from the mount of trans- figuration, it is Mark that fills out the incident of the disciples’ controversy with the bystanders by relating that the scribes were questioning with them. He notes the amazement which, for whatever reason, fell upon the people at Jesus’ appearance, their running to salute him, and his inquiry, What question ye with them? (ix. 14, 16). Mark gives us the bystanders’ encouragement of Bartimeus when summoned by Jesus, and tells how he cast off his outer garment and leaped up (x. 49, 50). He alone relates the breaking of the alabaster by the woman (xiv. 3), and Christ’s taking the little child in his arms after he had set him in the midst (ix. 36).
In the account of the two demoniacs of Gadara, Matthew (viii.) relates that they were met coming out of the tombs, and that they were exceeding fierce, so that no one could pass that way. Mark mentions only one demoniae, but adds that he had his dwelling in the tombs (xatolknow elyev, stronger than Luke’s abode, uevev) ; that the attempt had been made to fetter him, but that he had broken the fetters; and that he was day and night in the tombs and in the mountains, erying and cut- ting himself with stones (v. 3-6). In the interview with the lawyer who desired to know what kind of a commandment was great in the law, Matthew (xxii. 34-40) ends the dialogue with Jesus’ answer to this question. Mark gives the lawyer’s reply