Mark 13:33

13:33 Watch out! Stay alert! ¹  For you do not know when the time will come.

Mark 1:15

1:15 He ²  said, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God ³  is near. Repent and believe the gospel!”

Mark 12:2

12:2 At harvest time he sent a slave ⁴  to the tenants to collect from them ⁵  his portion of the crop. ⁶ 

Mark 10:30

10:30 who will not receive in this age ⁷  a hundred times as much – homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions ⁸  – and in the age to come, eternal life. ⁹ 

Mark 11:13

11:13 After noticing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, he went to see if he could find any fruit ¹⁰  on it. When he came to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

[13:33]  ¹ tc The vast majority of witnesses (א A C L W Θ Ψ Ë^1,13 Ï lat sy co) have καὶ προσεύχεσθε after ἀγρυπνεῖτε (agrupneite kai proseucesqe, “stay alert and pray”). This may be a motivated reading, influenced by the similar command in Mark 14:38 where προσεύχεσθε is solidly attested, and more generally from the parallel in Luke 21:36 (though δέομαι [deomai, “ask”] is used there). As B. M. Metzger notes, it is a predictable variant that scribes would have been likely to produce independently of each other (TCGNT 95). The words are not found in B D 2427 a c {d} k. Although the external evidence for the shorter reading is slender, it probably better accounts for the longer reading than vice versa.

[1:15]  ² tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:15]  ³ sn The kingdom of God is a reference to the sovereign activity of God as he rules over his creation and brings his plans to realization.

[12:2]  ³ tn See the note on the word “slave” in 10:44.

[12:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “from the tenants,” but this is redundant in English, so the pronoun (“them”) was used in the translation.

[12:2]  ⁵ tn Grk “from the fruits of the vineyard.”

[10:30]  ⁴ tn Grk “this time” (καιρός, kairos), but for stylistic reasons this has been translated “this age” here.

[10:30]  ⁵ tn Grk “with persecutions.” The “all” has been supplied to clarify that the prepositional phrase belongs not just to the “fields.”

[10:30]  ⁶ sn Note that Mark (see also Matt 19:29; Luke 10:25, 18:30) portrays eternal life as something one receives in the age to come, unlike John, who emphasizes the possibility of receiving eternal life in the present (John 5:24).

[11:13]  ⁵ tn Grk “anything.”