It was just one capital letter after another,

只是一个接一个的大写字母
which is one of the reasons that ancient tended to read text out loud.

这就是古人往往大声朗读经文的原因之一
They didn't read silently to themselves.

他们不会自己默念
One of the reasons is because it's easier to read a text that

原因之一是这样的经文读起来更容易
had no word divisions, it was all capital letters,

没有词语分割全部大写字母
no punctuation, it wasn't divided up into sentences,

无标点不会分割成句子
it was much easier to read that

如果你自己大声朗读
if you read it out loud to yourself,

这就很容易
so that's the way ancient people read.

这就是古人阅读的方式
We don't have chapter numbers and verse divisions,

没有章数没有小节划分
those are all later creations that came about in the Middle ages in Christianity.

这都是中世纪后才在基督教中创造出来的
By modern reckoning, therefore, there are sixteen chapters in Mark,

现代观点认为马可福音有16章