Mark 8:5

8:5 He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They replied, “Seven.”

Mark 10:4

10:4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.” ¹ 

Mark 11:6

11:6 They replied as Jesus had told them, and the bystanders ²  let them go.

Mark 8:28

8:28 They said, ³  “John the Baptist, others say Elijah, ⁴  and still others, one of the prophets.”

Mark 10:37

10:37 They said to him, “Permit one of us to sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.”

Mark 12:7

12:7 But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’

Mark 12:16

12:16 So ⁵  they brought one, and he said to them, “Whose image ⁶  is this, and whose inscription?” They replied, ⁷  “Caesar’s.”

Mark 16:8

16:8 Then ⁸  they went out and ran from the tomb, for terror and bewilderment had seized them. ⁹  And they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.

Mark 10:39

10:39 They said to him, “We are able.” ¹⁰  Then Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I experience,

¹ tn Grk “to divorce.” The pronoun has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Grk “they”; the referent (the people mentioned in v. 5) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Grk “And they said to him, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

² sn The appearance of Elijah would mean that the end time had come. According to 2 Kgs 2:11, Elijah was still alive. In Mal 4:5 it is said that Elijah would be the precursor of Messiah.

¹ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate their response to Jesus’ request for a coin.

² tn Or “whose likeness.”

³ tn Grk “they said to him.”

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

² tn Grk “they began to have trembling and bewilderment.”

¹ sn No more naïve words have ever been spoken as those found here coming from James and John, “We are able.” They said it with such confidence and ease, yet they had little clue as to what they were affirming. In the next sentence Jesus confirms that they will indeed suffer for his name.