Mark 5:40

5:40 And they began making fun of him. ¹  But he put them all outside ²  and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions ³  and went into the room where the child was. ⁴ 

Mark 15:20

15:20 When they had finished mocking ⁵  him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then ⁶  they led him away to crucify him. ⁷ 

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¹ tn Grk “They were laughing at him.” The imperfect verb has been taken ingressively.

² tn Or “threw them all outside.” The verb used, ἐκβάλλω (ekballw), almost always has the connotation of force in Mark.

³ tn Grk “those with him.”

⁴ tn Grk “into where the child was.”

⁵ tn The aorist tense is taken consummatively here.

⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁷ sn See the note on Crucify in 15:13.