4:1 Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while 1 the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.
8:31 Then 2 Jesus 3 began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer 4 many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, 5 and be killed, and after three days rise again.
9:25 Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked 6 the unclean spirit, 7 saying to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”
1 tn Grk “and all the crowd.” The clause in this phrase, although coordinate in terms of grammar, is logically subordinate to the previous clause.
2 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
3 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 sn The necessity that the Son of Man suffer is the particular point that needed emphasis, since for many 1st century Jews the Messiah was a glorious and powerful figure, not a suffering one.
5 tn Or “and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.
6 tn Or “commanded” (often with the implication of a threat, L&N 33.331).
7 sn Unclean spirit refers to an evil spirit.