Mark 6:53

Healing the Sick

6:53 After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret ¹  and anchored there.

Mark 15:33

Jesus’ Death

15:33 Now ²  when it was noon, ³  darkness came over the whole land ⁴  until three in the afternoon. ⁵ 

Mark 4:5

4:5 Other seed fell on rocky ground ⁶  where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep. ⁷ 

Mark 4:8

4:8 But ⁸  other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”

Mark 4:20

4:20 But ⁹  these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.”

¹ sn Gennesaret was a fertile plain south of Capernaum (see also Matt 14:34). This name was also sometimes used for the Sea of Galilee (Luke 5:1).

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

³ tn Grk “When the sixth hour had come.”

⁴ sn This imagery has parallels to the Day of the Lord: Joel 2:10; Amos 8:9; Zeph 1:15.

⁵ tn Grk “until the ninth hour.”

³ sn The rocky ground in Palestine would be a limestone base lying right under the soil.

⁴ tn Grk “it did not have enough depth of earth.”

⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in the final stage of the parable.

⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.