Mark 4:25
4:25 For whoever has will be given more, but 1 whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.” 2
Mark 4:27
4:27 He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.
Mark 7:19
7:19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” 3 (This means all foods are clean.) 4
Mark 8:12
8:12 Sighing deeply in his spirit he said, “Why does this generation look for a sign? I tell you the truth, 5 no sign will be given to this generation.”
Mark 9:37
9:37 “Whoever welcomes 6 one of these little children 7 in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”
Mark 9:39
9:39 But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me.
1 tn Grk “and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
2 sn What he has will be taken from him. The meaning is that the one who accepts Jesus’ teaching concerning his person and the kingdom will receive a share in the kingdom now and even more in the future, but for the one who rejects Jesus’ words, the opportunity that that person presently possesses with respect to the kingdom will someday be taken away forever.
3 tn Or “into the latrine.”
4 sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.
5 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
6 tn This verb, δέχομαι (decomai), is a term of hospitality (L&N 34.53).
7 sn Children were very insignificant in ancient culture, so this child would be the perfect object lesson to counter the disciples’ selfish ambitions.