Mark 6:33

6:33 But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they hurried on foot ¹  from all the towns ²  and arrived there ahead of them. ³ 

Mark 7:3

7:3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, ⁴  holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

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 

[6:33]  ¹ tn Grk “ran together on foot.” The idea of συντρέχω (suntrecw) is “to come together quickly to form a crowd” (L&N 15.133).

[6:33]  ² tn Or “cities.”

[6:33]  ³ tc The translation here follows the reading προῆλθον (prohlqon, “they preceded”), found in א B [phone] pc lat co. Some mss (D 28 33 700 pc) read συνῆλθον (sunhlqon, “arrived there with them”), while the majority of mss, most of them late (Ì^84vid [A ˹³] Ï sy^h), conflate the two readings (προῆλθον αὐτοὺς καὶ συνῆλθον πρὸς αὐτόν, “they preceded them and came together to him”). The reading adopted here thus has better external credentials than the variants. As well, it is the harder reading internally, being changed “by copyists who thought it unlikely that the crowd on the land could have outstripped the boat” (TCGNT 78).

[7:3]  ⁴ tn Grk “except they wash the hands with a fist,” a ceremonial washing (though the actual method is uncertain).

[7:19]  ⁷ tn Or “into the latrine.”

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