Mark 1:44

1:44 He told him, ¹  “See that you do not say anything to anyone, ²  but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded ³  for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.” ⁴ 

Mark 6:48

6:48 He ⁵  saw them straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. As the night was ending, ⁶  he came to them walking on the sea, ⁷  for ⁸  he wanted to pass by them. ⁹ 

Mark 7:6

7:6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:

‘This people honors me with their lips,

but their heart ¹⁰  is far from me.

Mark 9:42

9:42 “If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone ¹¹  tied around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.

Mark 12:26

12:26 Now as for the dead being raised, ¹²  have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, ¹³  how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the ¹⁴  God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? ¹⁵ 

Mark 14:21

14:21 For the Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born.”

¹ tn Grk “And after warning him, he immediately sent him away and told him.”

² sn The silence ordered by Jesus was probably meant to last only until the cleansing took place with the priests and sought to prevent Jesus’ healings from becoming the central focus of the people’s reaction to him. See also 1:34; 3:12; 5:43; 7:36; 8:26, 30; and 9:9 for other cases where Jesus asks for silence concerning him and his ministry.

³ sn On the phrase bring the offering that Moses commanded see Lev 14:1-32.

⁴ tn Or “as an indictment against them”; or “as proof to the people.” This phrase could be taken as referring to a positive witness to the priests, a negative testimony against them, or as a testimony to the community that the man had indeed been cured. In any case, the testimony shows that Jesus is healing and ministering to those in need.

⁵ tn This verse is one complete sentence in the Greek text, but it has been broken into two sentences in English for clarity.

⁶ tn Grk “about the fourth watch of the night,” between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.

⁷ tn Or “on the lake.”

⁸ tn The καί (kai) was translated so as to introduce a subordinate clause, i.e., with the use of “for.” See BDF §442.9.

⁹ sn The statement he wanted to pass by them is somewhat difficult to understand. There are at least two common interpretations: (1) it refers to the perspective of the disciples, that is, from their point of view it seemed that Jesus wanted to pass by them; or (2) it refers to a theophany and uses the language of the Greek Old Testament (LXX) when God “passed by” Moses at Sinai (cf. Exod 33:19, 22). According to the latter alternative, Jesus is “passing by” the disciples during their struggle, in order to assure them of his presence with them. See W L. Lane, Mark (NICNT), 236.

⁹ tn The term “heart” is a collective singular in the Greek text.

¹³ tn Grk “the millstone of a donkey.” This refers to a large flat stone turned by a donkey in the process of grinding grain (BDAG 661 s.v. μύλος 2; L&N 7.68-69). The same term is used in the parallel account in Matt 18:6.

¹⁷ tn Grk “Now as for the dead that they are raised.”

¹⁸ sn See Exod 3:6. Jesus used a common form of rabbinic citation here to refer to the passage in question.

¹⁹ tn Grk “and the,” but καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

²⁰ sn A quotation from Exod 3:6.