οὐκ ἤφιεν ἵνα. Cf. Mark 6:25; Mark 9:30; Mark 15:36. This detail, peculiar to Mk, may be one of Peter’s recollections. Making the Temple a thoroughfare seems not to have been formally permitted, but the hierarchy could easily have stopped it, and did not do so.

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