Mark 1:19

1:19 Going on a little farther, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother in their ¹  boat mending nets.

Mark 2:23

Lord of the Sabbath

2:23 Jesus ²  was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat ³  as they made their way.

Mark 6:8

6:8 He instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff ⁴  – no bread, no bag, ⁵  no money in their belts –

Mark 12:15

12:15 But he saw through their hypocrisy and said ⁶  to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius ⁷  and let me look at it.”

Mark 12:44

12:44 For they all gave out of their wealth. ⁸  But she, out of her poverty, put in what she had to live on, everything she had.” ⁹ 

Mark 14:40

14:40 When he came again he found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. ¹⁰  And they did not know what to tell him.

Mark 14:65

14:65 Then ¹¹  some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him, and to strike him with their fists, saying, “Prophesy!” The guards also took him and beat ¹²  him.

Mark 15:29

15:29 Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

Mark 16:12

16:12 After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on their way to the country.

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¹ tn Or “a boat.” The phrase ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ (en tw ploiw) can either refer to a generic boat, some boat (as it seems to do in Matt 4:21); or it can refer to “their” boat, implying possession. Mark assumes a certain preunderstanding on the part of his readers about the first four disciples and hence the translation “their boat” is justified (cf. also v. 20 in which the “hired men” indicates that Zebedee’s family owned the boats).

² tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Or “heads of grain.” While the generic term στάχυς (stacus) can refer to the cluster of seeds at the top of grain such as barley or wheat, in the NT the term is restricted to wheat (L&N 3.40; BDAG 941 s.v. 1).

⁴ sn Neither Matt 10:9-10 nor Luke 9:3 allow for a staff. It might be that Matthew and Luke mean not taking an extra staff, or that the expression is merely rhetorical for “traveling light,” which has been rendered in two slightly different ways.

⁵ tn Or “no traveler’s bag”; or possibly “no beggar’s bag” (L&N 6.145; BDAG 811 s.v. πήρα).

⁶ tn Grk “Aware of their hypocrisy he said.”

⁷ tn Here the specific name of the coin was retained in the translation, because not all coins in circulation in Palestine at the time carried the image of Caesar. In other places δηνάριον (dhnarion) has been translated simply as “silver coin” with an explanatory note.

sn A denarius was a silver coin stamped with the image of the emperor and worth approximately one day’s wage for a laborer.

⁸ tn Grk “out of what abounded to them.”

⁹ sn The contrast between this passage, 12:41-44, and what has come before in 11:27-12:40 is remarkable. The woman is set in stark contrast to the religious leaders. She was a poor widow, they were rich. She was uneducated in the law, they were well educated in the law. She was a woman, they were men. But whereas they evidenced no faith and actually stole money from God and men (cf. 11:17), she evidenced great faith and gave out of her extreme poverty everything she had.

¹⁰ tn Grk “because their eyes were weighed down,” an idiom for becoming extremely or excessively sleepy (L&N 23.69).

¹¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

¹² tn For the translation of ῥάπισμα (rJapisma), see L&N 19.4.