Mark 5:14

5:14 Now ¹  the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

Mark 6:36

6:36 Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.”

Mark 1:5

1:5 People ²  from the whole Judean countryside and all of Jerusalem ³  were going out to him, and he was baptizing them ⁴  in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

Mark 6:56

6:56 And wherever he would go – into villages, towns, or countryside – they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if ⁵  they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

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¹ tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate a transition to the response to the miraculous healing.

² tn Grk “And the whole Judean countryside.” Mark uses the Greek conjunction καί (kai) at numerous places in his Gospel to begin sentences and paragraphs. This practice is due to Semitic influence and reflects in many cases the use of the Hebrew ו (vav) which is used in OT narrative, much as it is here, to carry the narrative along. Because in contemporary English style it is not acceptable to begin every sentence with “and,” καί was often left untranslated or rendered as “now,” “so,” “then,” or “but” depending on the context. When left untranslated it has not been noted. When given an alternative translation, this is usually indicated by a note.

³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁴ tn Grk “they were being baptized by him.” The passive construction has been rendered as active in the translation for the sake of English style.

⁵ tn Grk “asked that they might touch.”