Discovery BoxMark 5:40 
Context5:40 And they began making fun of him. 1 But he put them all outside 2 and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions 3 and went into the room where the child was. 4
Mark 15:20
Context15:20 When they had finished mocking 5 him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then 6 they led him away to crucify him. 7
1 tn Grk “They were laughing at him.” The imperfect verb has been taken ingressively.
2 tn Or “threw them all outside.” The verb used, ἐκβάλλω (ekballw), almost always has the connotation of force in Mark.
3 tn Grk “those with him.”
4 tn Grk “into where the child was.”
5 tn The aorist tense is taken consummatively here.
6 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
