Mark 4:5

4:5 Other seed fell on rocky ground ¹  where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep. ² 

Mark 7:36

7:36 Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more. ³ 

Mark 14:40

14:40 When he came again he found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. ⁴  And they did not know what to tell him.

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¹ sn The rocky ground in Palestine would be a limestone base lying right under the soil.

² tn Grk “it did not have enough depth of earth.”

³ tn Grk “but as much as he ordered them, these rather so much more proclaimed.” Greek tends to omit direct objects when they are clear from the context, but these usually need to be supplied for the modern English reader. Here what Jesus ordered has been clarified (“ordered them not to do this”), and the pronoun “it” has been supplied after “proclaimed.”

⁴ tn Grk “because their eyes were weighed down,” an idiom for becoming extremely or excessively sleepy (L&N 23.69).