Discovery BoxMark 2:4 
Context2:4 When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof 1 above Jesus. 2 Then, 3 after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.
Mark 2:19
Context2:19 Jesus 4 said to them, “The wedding guests 5 cannot fast while the bridegroom 6 is with them, can they? 7 As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast.
Mark 11:18
Context11:18 The chief priests and the experts in the law 8 heard it and they considered how they could assassinate 9 him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching.
Mark 15:20
Context15:20 When they had finished mocking 10 him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then 11 they led him away to crucify him. 12
1 sn A house in 1st century Palestine would have had a flat roof with stairs or a ladder going up. This access was often from the outside of the house.
2 tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
4 tn Grk “And Jesus.”
5 tn Grk “sons of the wedding hall,” an idiom referring to wedding guests, or more specifically, friends of the bridegroom present at the wedding celebration (L&N 11.7).
6 sn The expression while the bridegroom is with them is an allusion to messianic times (John 3:29; Isa 54:5-6; 62:4-5; 4 Ezra 2:15, 38).
7 tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “can they?”).
8 tn Or “The chief priests and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.
9 tn Grk “how they could destroy him.”
10 tn The aorist tense is taken consummatively here.
11 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
