Pencil marks in text, perhaps by Grote as editor, complete letters such as e and t, for ease of reading.

3 Oct 1811

Jug Util

8

Ch

8

Jesus no toller

Were it that either the exclusive proof of attachment, or the extraordinary [...?] which /besides/ in addition to the /that proof of/ attachment was the only circumstance by which the mention made of the youth could have been /occasioned/ produced could have escaped the observation of Jesus? of the [...?] supposed oversights neither does the one nor the other presents any /the least/ colour of probability. Of the /abandonment and/ many by whom he was deserted /abandoned/ so much notice taken, and of the one youth who kept by / cleaved to/ him to the last, no notice taken at all? Nothing could be more ungenerous, nothing less credible. Of the looseness of the attire notice was taken by the /observing witnesses/ persons wherever they were by whom, immediately or through intermediately reporting witnesses in any number, the report /to the biographer/ was made to the biographer. By this comparatively unconcerned person the circumstances were deduced: and by the /one/ person so much more highly concerned than any other /is it in the nature of the case that/ it possibly is it possible it should have been passed by unnoticed and unobserved and unnoticed?

Of the four biographers Mark and /Matthew, Mark, Luke &/ John by whom alone the /fact/ circumstances of the arrestation are delivered /with so extraordinary /so differently/ a diversity/ described, it is by one only /alone/ viz. Mark that of this incident of the youth in loose attire any mention is made.

15 or 8

Not supposable that either the characteristic looseness of attire, or the proof of attachment should have escaped Jesus's notice: noticed as they are by his biographer.

16 or 9

Mark, the only one of the four by whom this incident is mentioned.