Bezae’s Codex: an indispensable text-base for an edition of Mark’s Gospel

Abstract

In this article we give an inventory of the spelling mistakes in the Gospel of Mark, together with an analysis of Jesus’ name references or the third person pronoun, including the variant readings of Codex Bezae and Codex Vaticanus. The phenomenon of parallel sequences. The questions of the disciples, apart from the crowd, on themes previously dealt with. A hypothesis for explaining such a phenomena from the redactional process of the Gospel of Mark is also offered.