Mark 3:30

3:30 (because they said, “He has an unclean spirit” ¹ ).

Mark 6:15

6:15 Others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets from the past.”

Mark 3:21

3:21 When his family ²  heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”

Mark 14:2

14:2 For they said, “Not during the feast, so there won’t be a riot among the people.” ³ 

Mark 15:35

15:35 When some of the bystanders heard it they said, “Listen, he is calling for Elijah!” ⁴ 

Mark 2:24

2:24 So ⁵  the Pharisees ⁶  said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

Mark 11:5

11:5 Some people standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying that colt?”

Mark 16:3

16:3 They had been asking each other, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”

Mark 3:22

3:22 The experts in the law ⁷  who came down from Jerusalem ⁸  said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” ⁹  and, “By the ruler ¹⁰  of demons he casts out demons.”

Mark 4:41

4:41 They were overwhelmed by fear and said to one another, “Who then is this? ¹¹  Even the wind and sea obey him!” ¹² 

Mark 5:31

5:31 His disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing against you and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

Mark 6:35

6:35 When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is an isolated place ¹³  and it is already very late.

Mark 11:28

11:28 and said, “By what authority ¹⁴  are you doing these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?”

Mark 14:31

14:31 But Peter ¹⁵  insisted emphatically, ¹⁶  “Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you.” And all of them said the same thing.

Mark 14:70

14:70 But he denied it again. A short time later the bystanders again said to Peter, “You must be ¹⁷  one of them, because you are also a Galilean.”

Mark 15:31

15:31 In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law ¹⁸  – were mocking him among themselves: ¹⁹  “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

Mark 2:16

2:16 When the experts in the law ²⁰  and the Pharisees ²¹  saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” ²² 

Mark 6:14

The Death of John the Baptist

6:14 Now ²³  King Herod ²⁴  heard this, for Jesus’ ²⁵  name had become known. Some ²⁶  were saying, “John the baptizer ²⁷  has been raised from the dead, and because of this, miraculous powers are at work in him.”

[3:30]  ¹ sn Unclean spirit refers to an evil spirit.

[3:21]  ² tc Western witnesses D W it, instead of reading οἱ παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ (Joi par’ aujtou, here translated “family”), have περὶ αὐτοῦ οἱ γραμματεῖς καὶ οἱ λοιποί (peri autou Joi grammatei" kai Joi loipoi, “[when] the scribes and others [heard] about him”). But this reading is obviously motivated, for it removes the embarrassing statement about Jesus’ family’s opinion of him as “out of his mind” and transfers this view to the Lord’s opponents. The fact that virtually all other witnesses have οἱ παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ here, coupled with the strong internal evidence for the shorter reading, shows this Western reading to be secondary.

[14:2]  ³ sn The suggestion here is that Jesus was too popular to openly arrest him. The verb were trying is imperfect. It suggests, in this context, that they were always considering the opportunities.

[15:35]  ⁴ sn Perhaps the crowd thought Jesus was calling for Elijah because the exclamation “my God, my God” (i.e., in Aramaic, Eloi, Eloi) sounds like the name Elijah.

[2:24]  ⁵ tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of previous action(s) in the narrative.

[2:24]  ⁶ sn See the note on Pharisees in 2:16.

[3:22]  ⁶ tn Or “The scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.

[3:22]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[3:22]  ⁸ tn Grk “He has Beelzebul.”

[3:22]  ⁹ tn Or “prince.”

[4:41]  ⁷ sn Jesus’ authority over creation raised a question for the disciples about who he was exactly (Who then is this?). This verse shows that the disciples followed Jesus even though they did not know all about him yet.

[4:41]  ⁸ sn This section in Mark (4:35-5:43) contains four miracles: (1) the calming of the storm; (2) the exorcism of the demon-possessed man; (3) the giving of life to Jairus’ daughter; (4) the healing of the woman hemorrhaging for twelve years. All these miracles demonstrate Jesus’ right to proclaim the kingdom message and his sovereign authority over forces, directly or indirectly, hostile to the kingdom. The last three may have been brought together to show that Jesus had power over all defilement, since contact with graves, blood, or a corpse was regarded under Jewish law as causing a state of ritual uncleanness.

[6:35]  ⁸ tn Or “a desert” (meaning a deserted or desolate area with sparse vegetation).

[11:28]  ⁹ tn On this phrase, see BDAG 844 s.v. ποῖος 2.a.γ.

[14:31]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Peter) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:31]  ¹¹ tn Grk “said emphatically.”

[14:70]  ¹¹ tn Grk “Truly you are.”

[15:31]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ tn Grk “Mocking him, the chief priests…said among themselves.”

[2:16]  ¹³ tn Or “the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.

[2:16]  ¹⁴ sn Pharisees were members of one of the most important and influential religious and political parties of Judaism in the time of Jesus. There were more Pharisees than Sadducees (according to Josephus, Ant. 17.2.4 [17.42] there were more than 6,000 Pharisees at about this time). Pharisees differed with Sadducees on certain doctrines and patterns of behavior. The Pharisees were strict and zealous adherents to the laws of the OT and to numerous additional traditions such as angels and bodily resurrection.

[2:16]  ¹⁵ sn The issue here is inappropriate associations. Jews were very careful about personal associations and contact as a matter of ritual cleanliness. Their question borders on an accusation that Jesus is ritually unclean.

[6:14]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

[6:14]  ¹⁵ sn Herod was technically not a king, but a tetrarch, a ruler with rank and authority lower than a king. A tetrarch ruled only with the approval of the Roman authorities. This was roughly equivalent to being governor of a region. In the NT, Herod, who ruled over Galilee, is called a king (Matt 14:9, Mark 6:14-29), reflecting popular usage rather than an official title.

[6:14]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “his”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:14]  ¹⁷ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[6:14]  ¹⁸ tn While Matthew and Luke consistently use the noun βαπτίστης (baptisths, “the Baptist”) to refer to John, as a kind of a title, Mark prefers the substantival participle ὁ βαπτίζων (Jo baptizwn, “the one who baptizes, the baptizer”) to describe him (only twice does he use the noun [Mark 6:25; 8:28]).