Mark 2:28

2:28 For this reason the Son of Man is lord ¹  even of the Sabbath.”

Mark 3:10

3:10 For he had healed many, so that all who were afflicted with diseases pressed toward him in order to touch him.

Mark 3:20

Jesus and Beelzebul

3:20 Now ²  Jesus ³  went home, and a crowd gathered so that they were not able to eat.

Mark 15:5

15:5 But Jesus made no further reply, so that Pilate was amazed.

Mark 2:2

2:2 So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by ⁴  the door, and he preached the word to them.

Mark 4:37

4:37 Now ⁵  a great windstorm ⁶  developed and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was nearly swamped.

Mark 9:26

9:26 It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy ⁷  looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He is dead!”

Mark 10:8

10:8 and the two will become one flesh. ⁸  So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Mark 2:12

2:12 And immediately the man ⁹  stood up, took his stretcher, and went out in front of them all. They were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

Mark 1:27

1:27 They were all amazed so that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him.”

Mark 1:45

1:45 But as the man ¹⁰  went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus ¹¹  was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still ¹²  they kept coming ¹³  to him from everywhere.

Mark 4:1

The Parable of the Sower

4:1 Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while ¹⁴  the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.

Mark 4:32

4:32 when it is sown, it grows up, ¹⁵  becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds ¹⁶  can nest in its shade.” ¹⁷ 

¹ tn The term “lord” is in emphatic position in the Greek text.

² tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Some translations (e.g., NIV, NLT) take the preposition πρός (pro"), which indicates proximity, to mean “outside the door.” Others render it as “in front of the door” (TEV, CEV), and still others, “around the door” (NAB). There is some ambiguity inherent in the description here.

⁴ tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

⁵ tn Or “a squall.”

⁵ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the boy) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

⁶ sn A quotation from Gen 2:24. The “two” refers to husband and wife, not father and mother mentioned in the previous verse. See the tc note on “mother” in v. 7 for discussion.

⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the man who was healed) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the man who was healed) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Grk “and”; καί (kai) often has a mildly contrastive force, as here.

¹¹ tn The imperfect verb has been translated iteratively.

⁹ tn Grk “and all the crowd.” The clause in this phrase, although coordinate in terms of grammar, is logically subordinate to the previous clause.

¹⁰ tn Mark 4:31-32 is fairly awkward in Greek. Literally the sentence reads as follows: “As a mustard seed, which when sown in the earth, being the smallest of all the seeds in the earth, and when it is sown, it grows up…” The structure has been rendered in more idiomatic English, although some of the awkward structure has been retained for rhetorical effect.

¹¹ tn Grk “the birds of the sky” or “the birds of the heaven”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated either “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context. The idiomatic expression “birds of the sky” refers to wild birds as opposed to domesticated fowl (cf. BDAG 809 s.v. πετεινόν).

¹² sn The point of the parable seems to be that while the kingdom of God may appear to have insignificant and unnoticeable beginnings (i.e., in the ministry of Jesus), it will someday (i.e., at the second advent) be great and quite expansive. The kingdom, however, is not to be equated with the church, but rather the church is an expression of the kingdom. Also, there is important OT background in the image of the mustard seed that grew and became a tree: Ezek 17:22-24 pictures the reemergence of the Davidic house where people can find calm and shelter. Like the mustard seed, it would start out small but grow to significant size.