Mark 12:36

12:36 David himself, by the Holy Spirit, said,

‘The Lord said to my lord, ¹ 

“Sit at my right hand,

until I put your enemies under your feet.”’ ² 

Mark 15:46

15:46 After Joseph ³  bought a linen cloth ⁴  and took down the body, he wrapped it in the linen and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock. ⁵  Then ⁶  he rolled a stone across the entrance ⁷  of the tomb.

Mark 16:6

16:6 But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. ⁸  He has been raised! ⁹  He is not here. Look, there is the place where they laid him.

[12:36]  ¹ sn The Lord said to my Lord. With David being the speaker, this indicates his respect for his descendant (referred to as my Lord). Jesus was arguing, as the ancient exposition assumed, that the passage is about the Lord’s anointed. The passage looks at an enthronement of this figure and a declaration of honor for him as he takes his place at the side of God. In Jerusalem, the king’s palace was located to the right of the temple to indicate this kind of relationship. Jesus was pressing the language here to get his opponents to reflect on how great Messiah is.

[12:36]  ² sn A quotation from Ps 110:1.

[15:46]  ³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Joseph of Arimathea) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:46]  ⁴ tn The term σινδών (sindwn) can refer to a linen cloth used either for clothing or for burial.

[15:46]  ⁵ tn That is, cut or carved into an outcropping of natural rock, resulting in a cave-like structure (see L&N 19.25).

[15:46]  ⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[15:46]  ⁷ tn Or “to the door,” “against the door.”

[16:6]  ⁵ sn See the note on Crucify in 15:13.

[16:6]  ⁶ tn The verb here is passive (ἠγέρθη, hgerqh). This “divine passive” (see ExSyn 437-38) points to the fact that Jesus was raised by God.