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 8:38

8:38 For if anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him 5  when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Mark 10:29

10:29 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, 6  there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel

Mark 12:19

12:19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us: ‘If a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man 7  must marry 8  the widow and father children 9  for his brother.’ 10 

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 sn How one responds now to Jesus and his teaching is a reflection of how Jesus, as the Son of Man who judges, will respond then in the final judgment.

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

7 tn Grk “his brother”; but this would be redundant in English with the same phrase “his brother” at the end of the verse, so most modern translations render this phrase “the man” (so NIV, NRSV).

8 tn The use of ἵνα (Jina) with imperatival force is unusual (BDF §470.1).

9 tn Grk “raise up seed” (an idiom for fathering children).

10 sn A quotation from Deut 25:5. This practice is called levirate marriage (see also Ruth 4:1-12; Mishnah, m. Yevamot; Josephus, Ant. 4.8.23 [4.254-256]). The levirate law is described in Deut 25:5-10. The brother of a man who died without a son had an obligation to marry his brother’s widow. This served several purposes: It provided for the widow in a society where a widow with no children to care for her would be reduced to begging, and it preserved the name of the deceased, who would be regarded as the legal father of the first son produced from that marriage.