Mark 9:45

9:45 If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have ¹  two feet and be thrown into hell.

Mark 6:33

6:33 But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they hurried on foot ²  from all the towns ³  and arrived there ahead of them. ⁴ 

Mark 9:14

The Disciples’ Failure to Heal

9:14 When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and experts in the law ⁵  arguing with them.

Mark 5:4

5:4 For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, ⁶  but ⁷  he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

[9:45]  ¹ tn Grk “than having.”

[6:33]  ² 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]  ³ tn Or “cities.”

[6:33]  ⁴ 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).

[9:14]  ³ tn Or “and scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.

[5:4]  ⁴ tn Grk “he had often been bound with chains and shackles.” “Shackles” could also be translated “fetters”; they were chains for the feet.

[5:4]  ⁵ tn Grk “and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.