Discovery BoxMark 5:3 
Context5:3 He lived among the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.
Mark 5:36
Context5:36 But Jesus, paying no attention to what was said, told the synagogue ruler, “Do not be afraid; just believe.”
Mark 5:43
Context5:43 He strictly ordered that no one should know about this, 1 and told them to give her something to eat.
Mark 10:18
Context10:18 Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? 2 No one is good except God alone.
Mark 11:14
Context11:14 He said to it, 3 “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it. 4
1 sn That no one should know about this. See the note on the phrase who he was in 3:12.
2 sn Jesus’ response, Why do you call me good?, was designed to cause the young man to stop and think for a moment about who Jesus really was. The following statement No one is good except God alone seems to point the man in the direction of Jesus’ essential nature and the demands which logically follow on the man for having said it.
3 tn Grk “And answering, he said to it.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqeis) is redundant and has not been translated.
4 sn Mark 11:12-14. The incident of the cursing of the fig tree occurs before he enters the temple for a third time (11:27ff) and is questioned at length by the religious leaders (11:27-12:40). It appears that Mark records the incident as a portent of what is going to happen to the leadership in Jerusalem who were supposed to have borne spiritual fruit but have been found by Messiah at his coming to be barren. The fact that the nation as a whole is indicted is made explicit in chapter 13:1-37 where Jesus speaks of Jerusalem’s destruction and his second coming.
