As a possible, but doubtful, collection of the type we are considering, we may note the sections Mark i. 21—39 and iii. 20—30. In the first passage we have a typical miracle story, rather awkwardly appended to a general summary describing Jesus' habitual preaching in the synagogue at Capernaum, which might, or might not, be drawn from the Twelve-source (cf. above, p. 29). The story ends with a conventional acclamation. The story of Peter's mother-in-law may well have been inserted by Mark from some other source of information; the three verses which follow are remarkable for the emphasis which they lay on the casting out of devils and Jesus' attitude towards them, and the theme is resumed at the end of 39. This could lead on quite well to iii. 20 (for πάλιν on this view, cf. p. 19); iii. 28 ff. will have been included here by Mark, verse 30 being added rather clumsily to justify the insertion. The saying stands in a different context in Luke (xii. 10); it may well have come to Mark as an isolated fragment. Apart from these two passages we should have a document with a quite consistent theme, the activity of Jesus as the conqueror of the devils; it might have been introduced by the brief Marcan story of the Temptation (i. 12 ff.).