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Mark 14:37 καθεύδεις ... ἴσχυσατε

Posted: August 6th, 2012, 10:54 am
by Jonathan Robie
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?

Re: Mark 14:37 καθεύδεις ... ἴσχυσατε

Posted: August 7th, 2012, 12:22 am
by Stephen Carlson
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.