Editing Marcan priority (section)

===Naming of eyewitnesses===

Where Mark mentions someone by name, someone not well-known originally who could have been left anonymous, Bauckham argues that it is because his audience at the time could refer to them as living eyewitnesses.{{sfnp|Bauckham|2006|p=42}} Several persons are named only in Mark:

* Bartimaeus ({{bibleverse|Mk 10:46; Mt 20:30; Lk 18:35|multi=yes}})
* Alexander and Rufus ({{bibleverse|Mk 15:21; Mt 27:32; Lk 23:26|multi=yes}})
* Salome ({{bibleverse|Mk 15:40, 16:1; Mt 27:55–56, 28:1; Lk 23:49, 24:10|multi=yes}})

The reverse situation of Matthew or Luke naming those unnamed in Mark never occurs. If, as Bauckham reasons, the reason for the omission of these names in Matthew and Luke is that these persons have since died, this phenomenon lends support to Mark being composed earliest.