Origen's Use of Ammonius in the Commentary on John [Part Four]

Work	Passage	Greek textual indicators of Ammonian-style pericope use	Strength as witness for Ammonius pericope use	Rank (1–10)
Origen, Commentarium in Ioannem	10.30.191–10.31.202 (methodological alignment of Entry / colt / cleansing pericopes)	Origen explicitly defers fuller treatment to Matthew (“εὐκαιρότερον… ὅταν εἰς τὸ κατὰ Ματθαῖον ἡμῖν λέγειν δοθῇ”), while nevertheless aligning Mark and Luke as parallel witnesses for the same colt-pericope (“πῶλον δεδεμένον, ἐφ’ ὃν οὐδεὶς πω ἀνθρώπων ἐκάθισεν”). He then tracks how each evangelist contributes distinct elements (Mark: πρὸς θύραν ἔξω ἐπὶ τοῦ ἀμφόδου; Luke: κύριοι τοῦ πώλου; Matthew: entry + cleansing sequence; John: palm-branches and μοναδική χρονική διάταξις), while insisting that apparent discontinuities and narrative interruptions are resolvable only if one respects pericope-level correspondence and sequence. This is explicit procedural control: Origen signals when a pericope belongs properly to another gospel’s treatment and restricts himself accordingly.	Extremely strong evidence of conscious pericope partitioning and cross-gospel indexing: Origen not only aligns parallel units but explicitly postpones fuller exposition until the appropriate gospel context—behavior that presupposes a stable, table-like pericope framework.	9/10
Origen, Commentarium in Ioannem	10.30.194–10.31.200 (bound colt / entry / temple cleansing harmonization)	Origen coordinates Mark, Luke, Matthew, and John within clearly delimited pericopes, dissolving ἐναλλαγαί and διαφωνίαι by ἀναγωγή while maintaining unit boundaries and Johannine sequence.	Very strong, near-explicit Ammonian harmonization logic.	9/10
Origen, Commentarium in Ioannem	10.32.205–10.33.212 (Entry into Jerusalem / colt / temple finding)	Johannine pericope sequence is followed, with Mark cited as a parallel witness inside a bounded unit, then forward movement resumed.	Strong evidence of pericope-by-pericope navigation.	8/10
Origen, Commentarium in Ioannem	10.37.250–10.38.255 (Temple saying / false witnesses)	John 2:19–22 functions as the controlling pericope, with Matthew, Mark, and Luke explicitly aligned as equivalent witnesses (“τὴν ἀναφορὰν ἔχοντα ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ῥητόν”).	Explicit, high-grade evidence of Ammonian-style pericope equivalence across all four gospels.	9/10