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 ¹  had married her.

Mark 9:43

9:43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have ²  two hands and go into hell, ³  to the unquenchable fire.

Mark 11:2

11:2 and said to them, “Go to the village ahead of you. ⁴  As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. ⁵  Untie it and bring it here.

Mark 11:13

11:13 After noticing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, he went to see if he could find any fruit ⁶  on it. When he came to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

[6:17]  ¹ tn Grk “he”; here it is necessary to specify the referent as “Herod,” since the nearest previous antecedent in the translation is Philip.

[9:43]  ² tn Grk “than having.”

[9:43]  ³ sn The word translated hell is “Gehenna” (γέεννα, geenna), a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew words ge hinnom (“Valley of Hinnom”). This was the valley along the south side of Jerusalem. In OT times it was used for human sacrifices to the pagan god Molech (cf. Jer 7:31; 19:5-6; 32:35), and it came to be used as a place where human excrement and rubbish were disposed of and burned. In the intertestamental period, it came to be used symbolically as the place of divine punishment (cf. 1 En. 27:2, 90:26; 4 Ezra 7:36). This Greek term also occurs in vv. 45, 47.

[11:2]  ³ tn Grk “the village lying before you” (BDAG 530 s.v. κατέναντι 2.b).

[11:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “a colt tied there on which no one of men has ever sat.”

[11:13]  ⁴ tn Grk “anything.”