Mark 14:37 καθεύδεις ... ἴσχυσατε

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Mark 14:37 καθεύδεις ... ἴσχυσατε

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Reading the Patriarchal Edition today, I was surprised by this:
Mark 14:37 (PE) wrote:καὶ λέγει τῷ Πέτρῳ· Σίμων, καθεύδεις; οὐκ ἴσχυσατε μίαν ὥραν γρηγορῆσαι;
I was expecting this, which I find in the SBL edition:
Mark 14:37 (SBL) wrote:καὶ λέγει τῷ Πέτρῳ· Σίμων, καθεύδεις; οὐκ ἴσχυσας μίαν ὥραν γρηγορῆσαι;
Can someone help me make sense of the καθεύδεις / ἴσχυσατε reading? I would expect both clauses to be addressed to the same person, why would he switch from singular to plural as in the PE reading?

I assume that the plurals in 38 signal a switch from addressing Peter only to addressing James and John also:
Mark 14:38-39 wrote:γρηγορεῖτε καὶ προσεύχεσθε, ἵνα μὴ [av] ἔλθητε εἰς πειρασμόν· τὸ μὲν πνεῦμα πρόθυμον ἡ δὲ σὰρξ ἀσθενής. καὶ πάλιν ἀπελθὼν προσηύξατο τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον εἰπών.
But why would that switch occur within verse 37?
ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες καὶ διηποροῦντο, ἄλλος πρὸς ἄλλον λέγοντες, τί θέλει τοῦτο εἶναι;
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Re: Mark 14:37 καθεύδεις ... ἴσχυσατε

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Jonathan Robie wrote:But why would that switch occur within verse 37?
It could be a harmonization to the local context. That happens all the time in the transmission of the text.
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