Procedural Register in the Olivet Discourse 463 Trocmé (26), Pesch (27) and others have speculated about the degree to which the Little Apocalypse or Flugblatt sources remain discernible throughout the major sections of our text. Those speculations aside, a consensus is evident among some of the most influential works concerning at least the most basic structure of the speech as we have it, namely, verses 5b-23; 24-27; 28-37 (28). The clear and emphatic colophon at v. 23 (uJmei'" de; blevpete proeivrhka uJmi'n pavnta), the sharply different style of the material in vv. 24-27, and the sapiential style of the final section containing a parable and a simile, have not been missed by most scholars. Other structural elements that have often been discussed are the two references to false prophets / false christs that form an inclusio at the beginning and end of the first section (5b- 23), the high number of imperatives, the temporal references etc. Several proposals regarding “structural keys” to the entire speech have been made. Of these, the following are worth noting here. Balabanski has seen the unusually high number of imperatives in the speech, blevpete in particular, as the structural key (29). Thus also Lane (30). Pesch has noticed that the o{tan clauses in vv. 7 and 14 “..markieren deutliche Einsätze innerhalb des Aufbaus der Rede” (31). Mateos sees that these clauses appear in both the question as well as distributed throughout the speech, and are therefore, “marcas estructurantes primarias” (32). My own proposal for the structure will explain how both these elements, together with choices from the transitivity network of Greek, are combined by Mark in an unusual register, a functional variety of language, not used by him anywhere (26) TROCMÉ (L’Évangile, 322-223) sees the “petite apocalypse chrétienne” in vv. 7-8.14-20. 24-27. (27) For PESCH (Naherwartungen, 65) the structure of the speech is based on the apocalyptic Vorlage plus paraenetic material. (28) Thus V. TAYLOR, The Gospel According to Saint Mark (London 1952) 499-500, though seeing some sub-divisions; PESCH, Naherwartungen, 65; HOOKER, Mark, 300-301 — with some sub-divisions; LAMBRECHT, Die Redaktion, 286; BEASLEY MURRAY, Last Days, 365. More recently, though with subdivisions in the first section indicating “stages” (YARBRO COLLINS, Mark, 613). YARBRO COLLINS (Mark, 614-615) speaks of the first section as indicating stages of “the end time”, being the third stage. VILLOTA HERRERO, Palabras, 25-31. (29) BALABANSKI, Eschatology, 72-74. (30) “The discourse is actually structured and sustained by the nineteen imperatives…”, LANE, The Gospel, 446. (31) PESCH, Naherwartungen, 78. (32) J. MATEOS, Marcos 13. El grupo cristiano en la historia (Lectura del Nuevo Testamento 5; Madrid 1987) 146.