Acknowledgements -- Part I Introduction -- I.1. Prepare the Way of the Lord -- I.2. Oral Performance and the Gospel of Mark -- I.3. For Whom Was the Gospel ofMark Performed? -- I.4. The LiteraryCharacter ofMark -- I.5. The Markan World as a Conceptual World -- I.6. Involvement with the Markan World -- I.6.1. Involvement with Markan Characters through Identification -- I.6.2. Involvement with Markan Characters through Sound -- I.6.3. Involvement with the Narrative World through Visualization -- I.7. Short Comments on the Approach Chosen for This Study -- Part II Theories and Methods That Explain Involvement with the Markan World -- II.1. Introductory Remarks -- II.2. Conventional Theory about Characters -- II.3. Mental Representations of Narratives -- II.3.1. The Communicative Aspect -- II.3.2. The Discourse Aspect -- II.3.3. The Suggestion Aspect -- II.3.4. The Realization Aspect -- II.3.5. The Event/Story Aspect -- II.3.6. Short Summary -- II.4. Mimesis -- II.4.1. Mimesis as Performance: Mimesis of Performance, Mimesis through Performance -- II.4.2. Mimesis as Transportation -- II.4.3. Mimesis as Simulation -- II.5. Audience Members Cast as Invisible Witnesses, Addressees, and Side-Participants -- II.5.1. Focalization and the Invisible Witness -- II.5.2. Focalization - Psychology and Ideology -- II.5.3. Speech Acts - Addressee or Side-Participant -- II.5.4. Involvement with Characters: Empathy and Identification -- II.6. Narrative Impact -- II.6.1. Narrative Impact Part One: Emotions and Literature -- II.6.2. Narrative Impact Part Two: Beliefs, Behavior, and Identity -- II.7. The Parables as Hypodiegetic Narratives -- II.7.1. Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Blending Theory -- II.7.2. Blending Theory -- II.7.3. Local Context and Grounding Box.

II.7.4. Interpretation of the Blend and Its Cultural Foundation in the Suggestion Structure -- II.7.5. Blending Theory and Linear Presentation of lnformation during an Oral Performance Event -- II.8. Summary -- Part III The Structure of the Gospel of Mark -- III.1. A Linguistic Approach -- III.1.1. An Overview ofNarrative Markers -- III.2. An Outline of the Gospel of Mark -- Part IV Analysis of Involvement with Characters and Events in the Markan World -- 1:1: Title -- 1:2-13: In the Wilderness -- 1:2-3: Isaiah's Prophecy -- 1:4-11: John the Baptist and Jesus at the River Jordan -- 1:4-8: The Ministry of John the Baptist -- 1:9-11: Jesus Is Baptized by John -- 1:12-13: Jesus and Otherworldly Beings in the Wilderness -- 1:14-8:26: Jesus in Galilee and the Surrounding Areas -- 1:14-15: Jesus Arrives in Galilee -- 1:16-20: Jesus Calls Simon, Andrew, James, and John by the Sea of Galilee -- 1:21-34: Jesus, Simon, Andrew, James, and John in Capernaum -- 1:21-28: Jesus in the Synagogue -- 1:29-34: Jesus, Simon, Andrew, James, and John at the House of Simon and Andrew -- 1:35-38: Jesus, Simon, and His Companions at a Desolated Place -- 1:39-45a: Jesus Enters Synagogues Throughout All of Galilee -- 1:39: Jesus Casts Out Evil Spirits -- 1:40-45a: Jesus Is Approached by a Leper -- 1:45b: Jesus Stays in Desolated Places -- 2:1-12: Jesus in the House in Capernaum -- 2:13-14: Jesusbythe Sea -- 2:15-22: Jesus in His House -- 2:23-3:6: Jesus and the Pharisees on the Sabbath -- 2:23-28: Jesus and His Disciples Pass through the Grainfields -- 3:1-6: Jesus Enters a Synagogue -- 3:7-12: Jesus by the Sea -- 3:13-19: Jesus and the Twelve on the Mountain -- 3:20-35: Jesus in a House -- 4:1-34: Jesus Teaches by the Sea -- 4:1-9: Jesus Teaches the Crowd from the Boat.

4:10-20: Jesus Teaches "Those Around Him Along with the Twelve" -- 4:21-34: Jesus Teaches the Crowd and "Those Around Him Along with the Twelve" -- 4:35-41: Jesus and the Disciples in the Boat When the Evening Had Come -- 5:1-20: Jesus in the Country of the Gerasenes, at the Other Side of the Sea -- 5:21-43: Jesus on the Other Side of the Sea -- 5:21-24: Jesus and Jairus -- 5:25-34: Jesus and the Woman Who Had a Flow of Blood -- 5:35-43: Jesus and Jairus -- 6:1-13: Jesus and His Disciples in Jesus' Hometown and the Surrounding Villages -- 6:1-6a: Jesus in the Synagogue on the Sabbath -- 6:6b-13: Jesus and the Twelve Teach in the Surrounding Villages -- 6:14-29: King Herod -- 6:30-31: The Apostles Gather Together with Jesus -- 6:32-33: They Go Away to a Deserted Place -- 6:34-44: Jesus, His Disciples, and the Crowd at the Deserted Place -- 6:45-52: On the Way to Bethsaida -- 6:53-7:23: Jesus at Gennesaret -- 6:53-56: Jesus Is Recognized and Heals -- 7:1-13: Jesus Debates with the Pharisees and Some of the Scribes -- 7:14-15: Jesus Calls the Crowd -- 7:17-23: Jesus and the Disciples in a House -- 7:24-30: Jesus in the Region of Tyre -- 7:31-8:9: Jesus Departs from the Region of Tyre and Arrives by the Sea of Galilee -- 7:31-37: Jesus Heals a Deaf and Tongue-Tied Man -- 8:1-9: Jesus and the Disciples Feed the Multitude -- 8:10-12: Jesus Debates with the Pharisees in Dalmanutha -- 8:13-21: Jesus and His Disciples on the Way to the Other Side -- 8:22-26: Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida -- 8:27-11:10: Jesus Is on the Way Which Ends in Jerusalem -- 8:27-9:29: Jesus and His Disciples on Their Way to the Region of Caesarea Philippi -- 8:27-9:1: Jesus Speaks to the Disciples and the Crowd -- 8:27-33: Jesus Speaks to the Disciples -- 8:34-9:1: Jesus Speaks to the Crowd and the Disciples.

9:2-13: Jesus, Peter, James, and John on a High Mountain Six Days Later -- 9:14-27: They Return to the Disciples -- 9:28-29: Jesus and His Disciples in a House -- 9:30-50: Jesus and His Disciples Go Trough Galilee -- 9:30-32: Jesus Teaches the Disciples -- 9:33-50: Jesus Teaches the Disciples, the Twelve, and John in a House in Capernaum -- 9:33-37: Jesus, the Disciples, and the Twelve -- 9:38-50: Jesus and John -- 10:1-11:10: In the Region of Judea and Beyond the River Jordan -- 10:1-9: Jesus Teaches the Crowds and Debates with the Pharisees -- 10:10-16: Jesus, His Disciples, and Children in a House -- 10:10-12: Jesus and His Disciples -- 10:13-16: Jesus, the Disciples, and the Children -- 10:17-31: When Jesus Was Setting Out on the Way -- 10:17-22: Jesus Speaks to the Rich Man -- 10:23-27: Jesus Speaks to His Disciples -- 10:28-31: Jesus Speaks to Peter -- 10:32-11:10: Jesus, the Twelve, and the Disciples on the Way to Jerusalem -- 10:32-34: Jesus Speaks to the Twelve -- 10:35-40: Jesus Speaks to James and John -- 10:41-45: Jesus Summons and Teaches the Ten as well as James and John -- 10:46-52: Jesus Goes Out of Jericho -- 11:1-10: They Were Approaching Jerusalem -- 11:11-16:8: Jesus in Jerusalem and the Surrounding Areas -- 11:11: Jesus Enters the Temple and Departs for Bethany Together with the Twelve -- 11:12-19: The Next Day -- 11:12-14: They Depart from Bethany -- 11:15-19: Jesus Is in the Temple in Jerusalem -- 11:20-13:37: The Next Day -- 11:20-25: In the Morning -- 11:27-12:44: They Enter Jerusalem and Jesus Walks in the Temple -- 11:27-12:12: Jesus Debates with the Chief Priests, Scribes, and Elders -- 12:13-17: Jesus Debates with Some of the Pharisees and Herodians -- 12:18-27: Jesus Debates with the Sadducees -- 12:28-34: Jesus Debates with One of the Scribes.

12:35-37a: Jesus Teaches in the Temple -- 12:37b-40: Jesus Speaks to the Crowd -- 12:41-44: Jesus Opposite the Treasury -- 13:1-37: Outside the Temple -- 13:1-2: Jesus and the Disciples Went Out of the Temple -- 13:3-37: Jesus, Peter, James, John, and Andrew on the Mount of Olives -- 14:1-11: Two Days before Passover and the Feast of the Unleavened Bread -- 14:1-2: The Chief Priests and the Scribes -- 14:3-9: Jesus in Bethany in the House of Simon the Leper -- 14:10-11: Judas Iscariot and the Chief Priests -- 14:12-72: On the First Day of Unleavened Bread, When the Passover Lamb Was Being Sacrificed -- 14:12-16: Jesus and His Disciples Plan and Organize the Passover -- 14:17-25: Jesus and the Twelve Come in the Evening -- 14:26-31: They Went Out to the Mount of Olives -- 14:32-52: Jesus and the Disciples at Gethsemane -- 14:32-42: Jesus, Peter, James, and John -- 14:43-52: Judas and the Crowd Arrive -- 14:53-72: Jesus and Peter at the High Priest's Residence -- 14:53: Jesus Is Led to the High Priest -- 14:54: Peter Is in the Courtyard of the High Priest -- 14:55-65: Jesus, the ChiefPriests, and the Council -- 14:66-72: Peter -- 15:1-47: Earlyin the Morning -- 15:1: Jesus Is Led Away and Handed Over to Pilate -- 15:2-15: Jesus, Pilate, the Chief Priests, and the Crowd in Front of Pilate's Residence -- 15:16-20a: Jesus Is in the Courtyard Together with the Whole Roman Cohort -- 15:20b-21: Jesus Is Led Out to Be Crucified -- 15:22-41: Jesus at Golgotha -- 15:22-24: Jesus Arrives at Golgotha -- 15:25-32: From the Third to the Sixth Hour -- 15:33: From the Sixth to the Ninth Hour -- 15:34-41: Jesus Dies at the Ninth Hour -- 15:42-47: When the Evening of the Preparation Day Had Come -- 15:42-45: Joseph of Arimathea Went to Pilate -- 15:46-47: Joseph Lays Jesus in a Tomb -- 16:1-8: When the Sabbath Was Over.

16:1: Mary Magdalene, Mary the Mother of James, and Salome Buy Spices.