Mark 5:33

5:33 Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.

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, ¹  no sign will be given to this generation.”

Mark 9:41

9:41 For I tell you the truth, ²  whoever gives you a cup of water because ³  you bear Christ’s ⁴  name will never lose his reward.

Mark 12:43

12:43 He called his disciples and said to them, “I tell you the truth, ⁵  this poor widow has put more into the offering box ⁶  than all the others. ⁷ 

Mark 14:9

14:9 I tell you the truth, ⁸  wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

Mark 14:18

14:18 While they were at the table ⁹  eating, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, ¹⁰  one of you eating with me will betray me.” ¹¹ 

Mark 14:30

14:30 Jesus said to him, “I tell you the truth, ¹²  today – this very night – before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”

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¹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

² tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

³ tn Grk “in [the] name that of Christ you are.”

⁴ tn Or “bear the Messiah’s”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

sn See the note on Christ in 8:29.

⁵ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

⁶ tn See the note on the term “offering box” in v. 41.

⁷ sn Has put more into the offering box than all the others. With God, giving is weighed evaluatively, not counted. The widow was praised because she gave sincerely and at some considerable cost to herself.

⁸ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

⁹ tn Grk “while they were reclined at the table.”

sn 1st century middle eastern meals were not eaten while sitting at a table, but while reclining on one’s side on the floor with the head closest to the low table and the feet farthest away.

¹⁰ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

¹¹ tn Or “will hand me over”; Grk “one of you will betray me, the one who eats with me.”

¹² tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”