Mark 3:35
Context3:35 For whoever does the will of God is 1 my brother and sister and mother.”
Mark 6:18
Context6:18 For John had repeatedly told 2 Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” 3
Mark 12:20
Context12:20 There were seven brothers. The first one married, 4 and when he died he had no children.


[3:35] 1 tn The pleonastic pronoun οὗτος (Jouto", “this one”) which precedes this verb has not been translated.
[6:18] 2 tn The imperfect tense verb is here rendered with an iterative force.
[6:18] 3 sn It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife. This was a violation of OT law (Lev 18:16; 20:21). In addition, both Herod Antipas and Herodias had each left marriages to enter into this union.
[12:20] 3 tn Grk “took a wife” (an idiom for marrying a woman).