Mark 2:4

2:4 When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof ¹  above Jesus. ²  Then, ³  after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.

Mark 2:19

2:19 Jesus ⁴  said to them, “The wedding guests ⁵  cannot fast while the bridegroom ⁶  is with them, can they? ⁷  As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast.

Mark 11:18

11:18 The chief priests and the experts in the law ⁸  heard it and they considered how they could assassinate ⁹  him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching.

Mark 15:20

15:20 When they had finished mocking ¹⁰  him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then ¹¹  they led him away to crucify him. ¹² 

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¹ sn A house in 1st century Palestine would have had a flat roof with stairs or a ladder going up. This access was often from the outside of the house.

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

³ tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁴ tn Grk “And Jesus.”

⁵ tn Grk “sons of the wedding hall,” an idiom referring to wedding guests, or more specifically, friends of the bridegroom present at the wedding celebration (L&N 11.7).

⁶ sn The expression while the bridegroom is with them is an allusion to messianic times (John 3:29; Isa 54:5-6; 62:4-5; 4 Ezra 2:15, 38).

⁷ tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “can they?”).

⁸ tn Or “The chief priests and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.

⁹ tn Grk “how they could destroy him.”

¹⁰ tn The aorist tense is taken consummatively here.

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

¹² sn See the note on Crucify in 15:13.