6). A particularly interesting example has a disambiguator both outside and inside speech. Concerning the blind beggar Bartimaeus, Mark says that when he heard “that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, ‘Jesus, Son of David’” (10:47). The disambiguator is used outside speech because the narrative here is reporting what the blind man heard. Simply saying that someone with a common male name was passing by would not explain why the beggar began to call out.
