Mark 15:20

15:20 When they had finished mocking ¹  him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then ²  they led him away to crucify him. ³ 

Mark 15:31

15:31 In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law ⁴  – were mocking him among themselves: ⁵  “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

[15:20]  ¹ tn The aorist tense is taken consummatively here.

[15:20]  ² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[15:20]  ³ sn See the note on Crucify in 15:13.

[15:31]  ⁴ tn Or “with the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22. Only “chief priests” is in the nominative case; this sentence structure attempts to capture this emphasis.

[15:31]  ⁵ tn Grk “Mocking him, the chief priests…said among themselves.”