introduces the episode without any connecting word such as τότε in Mt. ἰδού betrays self-consciousness, also the following ἡμεῖς. Yet, with all his self-consciousness, Peter, in Mk.'s account, has not courage to finish his question, stopping short with the statement of fact on which it is based = behold! we have left all and followed Thee? ἀφήκαμεν, aorist, refers to an act done once for all, ἠκολουθήκαμεν, to an abiding condition.

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Old Testament