Mark 9:41
Context9:41 For I tell you the truth, 1 whoever gives you a cup of water because 2 you bear Christ’s 3 name will never lose his reward.
Mark 14:36
Context14:36 He said, “Abba, 4 Father, all things are possible for you. Take this cup 5 away from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
1 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
2 tn Grk “in [the] name that of Christ you are.”
3 tn Or “bear the Messiah’s”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”
sn See the note on Christ in 8:29.
4 tn The word means “Father” in Aramaic.
5 sn This cup alludes to the wrath of God that Jesus would experience (in the form of suffering and death) for us. See Ps 11:6; 75:8-9; Isa 51:17, 19, 22 for this figure.