Mark 6:24

6:24 So she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” Her mother said, “The head of John the baptizer.”

Mark 7:11

7:11 But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban (that is, a gift for God),

tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of previous action(s) in the narrative.

tn Grk “She said”; the referent (the girl’s mother) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn While Matthew and Luke consistently use the noun βαπτίστης (baptisths, “the Baptist”) to refer to John, as a kind of a title, Mark employs the substantival participle ὁ βαπτίζων (Jo baptizwn, “the one who baptizes, the baptizer”) to describe him (though twice he does use the noun [Mark 6:25; 8:28]).

sn Corban is a Hebrew loanword (transliterated in the Greek text and in most modern English translations) referring to something that has been set aside as a gift to be given to God at some later date, but which is still in the possession of the owner (L&N 53.22). According to contemporary Jewish tradition the person who made this claim was absolved from responsibility to support or assist his parents, a clear violation of the Mosaic law to honor one’s parents (v. 10).