The innkeep

Earlier I'd proposed what Mark was doing concerning Simon, the leper. Matthew and Luke carried over the story, not caring about Simon himself - rather diluting the effect, by including a general da'wa. But there survives one more parallel. This is in the Egerton Papyrus, first fragment. Bell and Skeat proposed to read that fragment verso to recto; here, on the recto side.

These events occurred in the earlier half of their codex. The second half, I think, concerns the hour of Jesus' paradosis and crucifixion.

Egerton's first fragment does not place the events in time and space to the degree of its second. We don't have evidence that Egerton shared Mark's chiasmatic structure nor that one's will to frontload as much of Jesus' holiness into Galilee as possible. We don't know what Egerton thought of that famous Simon, the Rock. Egerton does have his anonymous leper delivering an autobiography: that he was a traveller who met with lepers at inns, and contracted their condition there.

Skeat and Bell pp. 19-20 do not see this anecdote as dependent on Mark or Luke. I say this presents the backstory from which Mark could construct his two anecdotes: the leper started that narrative as a traveler, and now he runs a safehouse in Bethany - a sort of inn.

It is safest to assume that Egerton intended this event too for the southern Jordan region. If Jordan proper, it immediately precedes the second fragment. If Bethany or Jerusalem, then immediately after.