Mark 12:10

12:10 Have you not read this scripture:

‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. ¹ 

Mark 12:26

12:26 Now as for the dead being raised, ²  have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, ³  how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the ⁴  God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? ⁵ 

¹ tn Or “capstone,” “keystone.” Although these meanings are lexically possible, the imagery in Eph 2:20-22 and 1 Cor 3:11 indicates that the term κεφαλὴ γωνίας (kefalh gwnia") refers to a cornerstone, not a capstone.

² tn Grk “Now as for the dead that they are raised.”

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

⁴ 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.

⁵ sn A quotation from Exod 3:6.