Discovery BoxMark 1:38 
Context1:38 He replied, 1 “Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too. For that is what I came out here to do.” 2
Mark 9:38
ContextOn Jesus’ Side
9:38 John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he was not following us.”
Mark 10:35
ContextThe Request of James and John
10:35 Then 3 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”
Mark 10:37
Context10:37 They said to him, “Permit one of us to sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.”
Mark 13:4
Context13:4 “Tell us, when will these things 4 happen? And what will be the sign that all these things are about to take place?”
1 tn Grk “And he said to them.”
2 tn Grk “Because for this purpose I have come forth.”
3 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
4 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.
