Mark 4:5

4:5 Other seed fell on rocky ground ¹  where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep. ² 

Mark 4:8

4:8 But ³  other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”

Mark 7:13

7:13 Thus you nullify ⁴  the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”

Mark 7:19

7:19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” ⁵  (This means all foods are clean.) ⁶ 

[4:5]  ¹ sn The rocky ground in Palestine would be a limestone base lying right under the soil.

[4:5]  ² tn Grk “it did not have enough depth of earth.”

[4:8]  ³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in the final stage of the parable.

[7:13]  ⁵ tn Grk “nullifying.” This participle shows the results of the Pharisees’ command.

[7:19]  ⁷ tn Or “into the latrine.”

[7:19]  ⁸ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.