Mark 6:11

6:11 If a place will not welcome you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off ¹  your feet as a testimony against them.”

Mark 6:35

6:35 When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is an isolated place ²  and it is already very late.

Mark 7:32

7:32 They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.

Mark 13:4

13:4 “Tell us, when will these things ³  happen? And what will be the sign that all these things are about to take place?”

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¹ sn To shake the dust off represented shaking off the uncleanness from one’s feet; see Luke 10:11; Acts 13:51; 18:6. It was a sign of rejection.

² tn Or “a desert” (meaning a deserted or desolate area with sparse vegetation).

³ sn Both references to these things are plural, so more than the temple’s destruction is in view. The question may presuppose that such a catastrophe signals the end.