Mark 3:5
Context3:5 After looking around 1 at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, 2 he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 3
Mark 6:41
Context6:41 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. He 4 gave them to his 5 disciples to serve the people, and he divided the two fish among them all.
Mark 8:33
Context8:33 But after turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but on man’s.” 6
Mark 15:43
Context15:43 Joseph of Arimathea, a highly regarded member of the council, 7 who was himself looking forward to 8 the kingdom of God, 9 went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 10
Mark 16:6
Context16:6 But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. 11 He has been raised! 12 He is not here. Look, there is the place where they laid him.
1 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”).
2 tn This term is a collective singular in the Greek text.
3 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.
4 tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
5 tc ‡ Most
tn Grk “the disciples”; the Greek article has been translated here as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).
6 tn Grk “people’s.”
7 tn Grk “a councillor” (as a member of the Sanhedrin, see L&N 11.85). This indicates that some individuals among the leaders did respond to Jesus.
8 tn Or “waiting for.”
9 sn Though some dispute that Joseph of Arimathea was a disciple of Jesus, this remark that he was looking forward to the kingdom of God and his actions regarding Jesus’ burial suggest otherwise.
10 sn Asking for the body of Jesus was indeed a bold move on the part of Joseph of Arimathea, for it clearly and openly identified him with a man who had just been condemned and executed, namely, Jesus. His faith is exemplary, especially for someone who was a member of the council that handed Jesus over for crucifixion (cf. Luke 23:51). He did this because he sought to give Jesus an honorable burial.
11 sn See the note on Crucify in 15:13.
12 tn The verb here is passive (ἠγέρθη, hgerqh). This “divine passive” (see ExSyn 437-38) points to the fact that Jesus was raised by God.