Mark 13:6

13:6 Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ ¹  and they will mislead many.

Mark 1:7

1:7 He proclaimed, ²  “One more powerful than I am is coming after me; I am not worthy ³  to bend down and untie the strap ⁴  of his sandals.

Mark 6:50

6:50 for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them: ⁵  “Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.”

Mark 14:62

14:62 “I am,” said Jesus, “and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand ⁶  of the Power ⁷  and coming with the clouds of heaven.” ⁸ 

[13:6]  ¹ tn That is, “I am the Messiah.”

[1:7]  ² tn Grk “proclaimed, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[1:7]  ³ tn Grk “of whom I am not worthy.”

[1:7]  ⁴ tn The term refers to the leather strap or thong used to bind a sandal. This is often viewed as a collective singular and translated as a plural, “the straps of his sandals,” but it may be more emphatic to retain the singular here.

[6:50]  ³ tn Grk “he spoke with them, and said to them.”

[14:62]  ⁴ sn An allusion to Ps 110:1. This is a claim that Jesus shares authority with God in heaven. Those present may have thought they were his judges, but, in fact, the reverse was true.

[14:62]  ⁵ sn The expression the right hand of the Power is a circumlocution for referring to God. Such indirect references to God were common in 1st century Judaism out of reverence for the divine name.

[14:62]  ⁶ sn An allusion to Dan 7:13.