<p>5:31- see on Mk. 14:70.</p><p><em>And his disciples said to him: You saw the crowd pressing upon you and you ask, Who touched me?</em>- The gospels are transcripts of how the disciples spoke the gospel message. And yet they are shot through with thee disciples' recognition of their own weakness, and thereby their message was the more appealing and convicting to their hearers. Here, they paint themselves as foolish and inappropriate; they record their mocking of the Lord in the same section in which they record the scorning of the Lord by unbelievers in :40.</p>