Mark 4:38

4:38 But ¹  he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are about to die?”

Mark 5:40

5:40 And they began making fun of him. ²  But he put them all outside ³  and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions ⁴  and went into the room where the child was. ⁵ 

Mark 6:17

6:17 For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod ⁶  had married her.

Mark 12:36

12:36 David himself, by the Holy Spirit, said,

‘The Lord said to my lord, ⁷ 

“Sit at my right hand,

until I put your enemies under your feet.”’ ⁸ 

Mark 15:43

15:43 Joseph of Arimathea, a highly regarded member of the council, ⁹  who was himself looking forward to ¹⁰  the kingdom of God, ¹¹  went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. ¹² 

[4:38]  ¹ tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[5:40]  ² tn Grk “They were laughing at him.” The imperfect verb has been taken ingressively.

[5:40]  ³ tn Or “threw them all outside.” The verb used, ἐκβάλλω (ekballw), almost always has the connotation of force in Mark.

[5:40]  ⁴ tn Grk “those with him.”

[5:40]  ⁵ tn Grk “into where the child was.”

[6:17]  ³ tn Grk “he”; here it is necessary to specify the referent as “Herod,” since the nearest previous antecedent in the translation is Philip.

[12:36]  ⁴ sn The Lord said to my Lord. With David being the speaker, this indicates his respect for his descendant (referred to as my Lord). Jesus was arguing, as the ancient exposition assumed, that the passage is about the Lord’s anointed. The passage looks at an enthronement of this figure and a declaration of honor for him as he takes his place at the side of God. In Jerusalem, the king’s palace was located to the right of the temple to indicate this kind of relationship. Jesus was pressing the language here to get his opponents to reflect on how great Messiah is.

[12:36]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Ps 110:1.

[15:43]  ⁵ tn Grk “a councillor” (as a member of the Sanhedrin, see L&N 11.85). This indicates that some individuals among the leaders did respond to Jesus.

[15:43]  ⁶ tn Or “waiting for.”

[15:43]  ⁷ sn Though some dispute that Joseph of Arimathea was a disciple of Jesus, this remark that he was looking forward to the kingdom of God and his actions regarding Jesus’ burial suggest otherwise.

[15:43]  ⁸ sn Asking for the body of Jesus was indeed a bold move on the part of Joseph of Arimathea, for it clearly and openly identified him with a man who had just been condemned and executed, namely, Jesus. His faith is exemplary, especially for someone who was a member of the council that handed Jesus over for crucifixion (cf. Luke 23:51). He did this because he sought to give Jesus an honorable burial.