Mark 1:30

1:30 Simon’s mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever, so ¹  they spoke to Jesus ²  at once about her.

Mark 5:23

5:23 He asked him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live.”

Mark 5:33

5:33 Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.

Mark 5:41

5:41 Then, gently taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha koum,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up.”

Mark 6:17

6:17 For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod ³  had married her.

Mark 6:25-26

6:25 Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request: ⁴  “I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.” 6:26 Although it grieved the king deeply, ⁵  he did not want to reject her request because of his oath and his guests.

Mark 6:28

6:28 He brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

Mark 12:44

12:44 For they all gave out of their wealth. ⁶  But she, out of her poverty, put in what she had to live on, everything she had.” ⁷ 

Mark 14:5

14:5 It ⁸  could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins ⁹  and the money ¹⁰  given to the poor!” So ¹¹  they spoke angrily to her.

Mark 14:9

14:9 I tell you the truth, ¹²  wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

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¹ tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of previous action(s) in the narrative.

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

³ tn Grk “he”; here it is necessary to specify the referent as “Herod,” since the nearest previous antecedent in the translation is Philip.

⁴ tn Grk “she asked, saying.” The participle λέγουσα (legousa) is redundant and has not been translated.

⁵ tn Grk “and being deeply grieved, the king did not want.”

⁶ tn Grk “out of what abounded to them.”

⁷ 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.

⁸ tn Here γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

⁹ tn Grk “three hundred denarii.” One denarius was the standard day’s wage, so the value exceeded what a laborer could earn in a year (taking in to account Sabbaths and feast days when no work was done).

¹⁰ tn The words “the money” are not in the Greek text, but are implied (as the proceeds from the sale of the perfumed oil).

¹¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of previous action(s) in the narrative.

¹² tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”