Mark 13:37

13:37 What I say to you I say to everyone: Stay alert!”

Mark 14:37

14:37 Then ¹  he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you stay awake for one hour?

Mark 14:1

The Plot Against Jesus

14:1 Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law ²  were trying to find a way ³  to arrest Jesus ⁴  by stealth and kill him.

Mark 4:7

4:7 Other seed fell among the thorns, ⁵  and they grew up and choked it, ⁶  and it did not produce grain.

Mark 5:8

5:8 (For Jesus ⁷  had said to him, “Come out of that man, you unclean spirit!”) ⁸ 

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

² tn Or “the chief priests and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.

³ tn Grk “were seeking how.”

⁴ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ sn Palestinian weeds like these thorns could grow up to six feet in height and have a major root system.

⁶ sn That is, crowded out the good plants.

⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ sn This is a parenthetical explanation by the author.