Mark 5:3

5:3 He lived among the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.

Mark 6:5

6:5 He was not able to do a miracle there, except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

Mark 9:29

9:29 He told them, “This kind can come out only by prayer.” ¹ 

Mark 10:18

10:18 Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? ²  No one is good except God alone.

Mark 15:4

15:4 So Pilate asked him again, ³  “Have you nothing to say? See how many charges they are bringing against you!”

¹ tc Most witnesses, even early and excellent ones (Ì^45vid א² A C D L W Θ Ψ Ë^1,13 33 Ï lat co), have “and fasting” (καὶ νηστείᾳ, kai nhsteia) after “prayer” here. But this seems to be a motivated reading, due to the early church’s emphasis on fasting (TCGNT 85; cf., e.g., 2 Clem. 16:4; Pol. Phil 7:2; Did. 1:3; 7:4). That the most important witnesses (א* B), as well as a few others (0274 2427 k), lack καὶ νηστείᾳ, when a good reason for the omission is difficult to find, argues strongly for the shorter reading.

¹ sn Jesus’ response, Why do you call me good?, was designed to cause the young man to stop and think for a moment about who Jesus really was. The following statement No one is good except God alone seems to point the man in the direction of Jesus’ essential nature and the demands which logically follow on the man for having said it.

¹ tn Grk “Pilate asked him again, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has not been translated.