Mark 1:40
Context1:40 Now 1 a leper 2 came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. “If 3 you are willing, you can make me clean,” he said.
Mark 3:11
Context3:11 And whenever the unclean spirits 4 saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”
Mark 4:5
Context4:5 Other seed fell on rocky ground 5 where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep. 6
Mark 4:8
Context4:8 But 7 other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”
Mark 5:33
Context5:33 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 7:25
Context7:25 Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit 8 immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.
1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.
2 sn The ancient term for leprosy covers a wider array of conditions than what we call leprosy today. A leper was totally ostracized from society until he was declared cured (Lev 13:45-46).
3 tn This is a third class condition. The report portrays the leper making no presumptions about whether Jesus will heal him or not.
4 sn Unclean spirits refers to evil spirits.
5 sn The rocky ground in Palestine would be a limestone base lying right under the soil.
6 tn Grk “it did not have enough depth of earth.”
7 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in the final stage of the parable.
8 sn Unclean spirit refers to an evil spirit.