Mark 2:12

2:12 And immediately the man ¹  stood up, took his stretcher, and went out in front of them all. They were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

Mark 4:38

4:38 But ²  he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are about to die?”

Mark 6:37

6:37 But he answered them, ³  “You ⁴  give them something to eat.” And they said, “Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins ⁵  and give it to them to eat?”

Mark 10:33

10:33 “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and experts in the law. ⁶  They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles.

Mark 10:39

10:39 They said to him, “We are able.” ⁷  Then Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I experience,

Mark 15:32

15:32 Let the Christ, ⁸  the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!” Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him. ⁹ 

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¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the man who was healed) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

³ tn Grk “answering, he said to them.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqeis) is redundant, but the syntax of the sentence has been changed for clarity.

⁴ tn Here the pronoun ὑμεῖς (Jumeis) is used, making “you” in the translation emphatic.

⁵ sn The silver coin referred to here is the denarius. A denarius, inscribed with a picture of Tiberius Caesar, was worth approximately one day’s wage for a laborer. Two hundred denarii was thus approximately equal to eight months’ wages. The disciples did not have the resources in their possession to feed the large crowd, so Jesus’ request is his way of causing them to trust him as part of their growth in discipleship.

⁶ tn Or “chief priests and scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.

⁷ sn No more naïve words have ever been spoken as those found here coming from James and John, “We are able.” They said it with such confidence and ease, yet they had little clue as to what they were affirming. In the next sentence Jesus confirms that they will indeed suffer for his name.

⁸ tn Or “the Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

sn See the note on Christ in 8:29.

⁹ sn Mark’s wording suggests that both of the criminals spoke abusively to him. If so, one of them quickly changed his attitude toward Jesus (see Luke 23:40-43).