Procedural Register in the Olivet Discourse 479 A detailed analysis reveals that this material is in highly cohesive with the rest of Mark 13, shares many of the fundamental structuring elements we have discussed above, and provides an interpretation of the oration by means of two complementary parables and their explanatiory material. I side with Hooker, Mateos, Yarbro Collins, and the UBS Greek text (73) against the NA27, Beasley-Murray, Lambrecht Villota Herrero (74) and others, in seeing two distinct sections and not three in vv. 28-37, as follows: Parable about knowing: ΔApo; de; th'" such'" mavqete th;n parabolhvn (vv. 28-31) Parable about not knowing: Peri; de; th'" hJmevra" ejkeivnh" h[ th'" w{ra" oujdei;" oi\den (vv. 32-37). As Mateos points out, ΔApo; de; th'" such'" (v. 28a) and Peri; de; th'" hJmevra" ejkeivnh" (v. 32) are parallel constructions, each starting a new sub-section (75). In v. 28, Jesus picks up again the procedural style of o{tan clauses plus imperatives to remind his audience of the final road sign detailed in vv. 14-23, given in answer to the request of the disciples for a sign that will signal when “all these things will be fulfilled”. The parable of the fig tree contains a o{tan (when you see...) clause followed by the knowledge which results from the seeing: “You know that summer is near”. In v. 29 Jesus gives the application of the parable to the lives of the disciples: “In this way also, when you see all these things happening, know that it (or he) is near, even at the gate”(76). The two o{tan clauses connect audience and readers to similar clauses in vv. 7, 11, and 14, and to the question of v. 4, and convey specific guidance in procedural register, the language of road signs, their correct interpretation and associated behavior. V. 31, prefaced by the formulaic ΔAmh;n levgw uJmi'n (12x in Mark) is Jesus’ emphatic promise that this generation will not pass until tau'ta pavnta are fulfilled. As I detailed in my discussion of vv. 5b-23, pavnta and tau'ta pavnta are anaphoric, point back to the “all these things” (tau'ta (73) HOOKER, The Gospel, 320-325; MATEOS, Marcos 13, 157-158; YARBRO COLLINS (Mark, 615) correctly sees in vv. 28-31 “an argument supporting imminent expectation”. (74) BEASLEY-MURRAY (Jesus and the Last Days, 449) suggests that vv. 30-32 belong together. LAMBRECHT (Die Redaktion, 286, 291-292) also separates vv. 30, 31 from 28-29. VILLOTA HERRERO (Palabras, 31-33) places vv. 30-32 together. (75) MATEOS, Marcos 13, 158. (76) YARBRO COLLINS (Mark, 616) has failed to see the two options are possible in ejstivn. In any case “he” may still refer back to v. 14, as the participle eJsthkovta o{pou ouj dei' is masculine!