Discovery BoxMark 2:16 
Context2:16 When the experts in the law 1 and the Pharisees 2 saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 3
Mark 3:5
Context3:5 After looking around 4 at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, 5 he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 6
Mark 3:27
Context3:27 But no one is able to enter a strong man’s 7 house and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can thoroughly plunder his house. 8
Mark 4:1
Context4:1 Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while 9 the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.
Mark 5:19
Context5:19 But 10 Jesus 11 did not permit him to do so. Instead, he said to him, “Go to your home and to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you, 12 that he had mercy on you.”
Mark 5:40
Context5:40 And they began making fun of him. 13 But he put them all outside 14 and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions 15 and went into the room where the child was. 16
Mark 8:23
Context8:23 He took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside of the village. Then 17 he spit on his eyes, placed his hands on his eyes 18 and asked, “Do you see anything?”
Mark 9:31
Context9:31 for he was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men. 19 They 20 will kill him, 21 and after three days he will rise.” 22
Mark 12:28
Context12:28 Now 23 one of the experts in the law 24 came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus 25 answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”
Mark 12:34
Context12:34 When Jesus saw that he had answered thoughtfully, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” Then no one dared any longer to question him.
Mark 15:46
Context15:46 After Joseph 26 bought a linen cloth 27 and took down the body, he wrapped it in the linen and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock. 28 Then 29 he rolled a stone across the entrance 30 of the tomb.
Mark 16:14
Context16:14 Then he appeared to the eleven themselves, while they were eating, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him resurrected.
1 tn Or “the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.
2 sn Pharisees were members of one of the most important and influential religious and political parties of Judaism in the time of Jesus. There were more Pharisees than Sadducees (according to Josephus, Ant. 17.2.4 [17.42] there were more than 6,000 Pharisees at about this time). Pharisees differed with Sadducees on certain doctrines and patterns of behavior. The Pharisees were strict and zealous adherents to the laws of the OT and to numerous additional traditions such as angels and bodily resurrection.
3 sn The issue here is inappropriate associations. Jews were very careful about personal associations and contact as a matter of ritual cleanliness. Their question borders on an accusation that Jesus is ritually unclean.
4 tn The aorist participle περιβλεψάμενος (peribleyameno") has been translated as antecedent (prior) to the action of the main verb. It could also be translated as contemporaneous (“Looking around…he said”).
5 tn This term is a collective singular in the Greek text.
6 sn The passive was restored points to healing by God. Now the question became: Would God exercise his power through Jesus, if what Jesus was doing were wrong? Note also Jesus’ “labor.” He simply spoke and it was so.
7 sn The strong man here pictures Satan.
8 sn Some see the imagery here as similar to Eph 4:7-10, although no opponents are explicitly named in that passage. Jesus has the victory over Satan. Jesus’ acts of healing mean that the war is being won and the kingdom is coming.
9 tn Grk “and all the crowd.” The clause in this phrase, although coordinate in terms of grammar, is logically subordinate to the previous clause.
10 tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
11 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 sn Jesus instructs the man to declare what the Lord has done for him, in contrast to the usual instructions (e.g., 1:44; 5:43) to remain silent. Here in Gentile territory Jesus allowed more open discussion of his ministry. D. L. Bock (Luke [BECNT], 1:781) suggests that with few Jewish religious representatives present, there would be less danger of misunderstanding Jesus’ ministry as political.
13 tn Grk “They were laughing at him.” The imperfect verb has been taken ingressively.
14 tn Or “threw them all outside.” The verb used, ἐκβάλλω (ekballw), almost always has the connotation of force in Mark.
15 tn Grk “those with him.”
16 tn Grk “into where the child was.”
17 tn Grk “village, and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
18 tn Grk “on him,” but the word πάλιν in v. 25 implies that Jesus touched the man’s eyes at this point.
19 tn The plural Greek term ἀνθρώπων (anqrwpwn) is considered by some to be used here in a generic sense, referring to both men and women (cf. NRSV, “into human hands”; CEV, “to people”). However, because this can be taken as a specific reference to the group responsible for Jesus’ arrest, where it is unlikely women were present (cf. Matt 26:47-56; Mark 14:43-52; Luke 22:47-53; John 18:2-12), the word “men” has been retained in the translation. There may also be a slight wordplay with “the Son of Man” earlier in the verse.
20 tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
21 tn Grk “They will kill him, and being killed, after…” The redundancy in the statement has been removed in the translation.
22 sn They will kill him and after three days he will rise. See the note at the end of Mark 8:30 regarding the passion predictions.
23 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.
24 tn Or “One of the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.
25 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
26 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Joseph of Arimathea) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
27 tn The term σινδών (sindwn) can refer to a linen cloth used either for clothing or for burial.
28 tn That is, cut or carved into an outcropping of natural rock, resulting in a cave-like structure (see L&N 19.25).
29 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
30 tn Or “to the door,” “against the door.”
