Discovery BoxMark 4:21 
Context4:21 He also said to them, “A lamp 1 isn’t brought to be put under a basket 2 or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?
Mark 5:40
Context5:40 And they began making fun of him. 3 But he put them all outside 4 and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions 5 and went into the room where the child was. 6
Mark 13:34
Context13:34 It is like a man going on a journey. He left his house and put his slaves 7 in charge, assigning 8 to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert.
Mark 15:20
Context15:20 When they had finished mocking 9 him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then 10 they led him away to crucify him. 11
Mark 15:36
Context15:36 Then someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, 12 put it on a stick, 13 and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Leave him alone! Let’s see if Elijah will come to take him down!”
1 sn The lamp is probably an ancient oil burning lamp or perhaps a candlestick. Jesus is comparing revelation to light, particularly the revelation of his ministry.
2 tn Or “a bowl”; this refers to any container for dry material of about eight liters (two gallons) capacity. It could be translated “basket, box, bowl” (L&N 6.151).
3 tn Grk “They were laughing at him.” The imperfect verb has been taken ingressively.
4 tn Or “threw them all outside.” The verb used, ἐκβάλλω (ekballw), almost always has the connotation of force in Mark.
5 tn Grk “those with him.”
6 tn Grk “into where the child was.”
7 tn See the note on the word “slave” in 10:44.
8 tn Grk “giving.”
9 tn The aorist tense is taken consummatively here.
10 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
11 sn See the note on Crucify in 15:13.
12 sn Sour wine refers to cheap wine that was called in Latin posca, a cheap vinegar wine diluted heavily with water. It was the drink of slaves and soldiers, and was probably there for the soldiers who had performed the crucifixion.
13 tn Grk “a reed.”
