Mark 9:48

9:48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.

Mark 2:4

2:4 When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof ¹  above Jesus. ²  Then, ³  after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.

Mark 14:14

14:14 Wherever he enters, tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’

Mark 6:10

6:10 He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there ⁴  until you leave the area.

Mark 4:5

4:5 Other seed fell on rocky ground ⁵  where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep. ⁶ 

Mark 6:55

6:55 They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be. ⁷ 

Mark 14:9

14:9 I tell you the truth, ⁸  wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

Mark 4:15

4:15 These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan ⁹  comes and snatches the word ¹⁰  that was sown in them.

Mark 5:40

5:40 And they began making fun of him. ¹¹  But he put them all outside ¹²  and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions ¹³  and went into the room where the child was. ¹⁴ 

Mark 9:18

9:18 Whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, but ¹⁵  they were not able to do so.” ¹⁶ 

Mark 13:14

The Abomination of Desolation

13:14 “But when you see the abomination of desolation ¹⁷  standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee ¹⁸  to the mountains.

Mark 16:6

16:6 But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. ¹⁹  He has been raised! ²⁰  He is not here. Look, there is the place where they laid him.

Mark 6:56

6:56 And wherever he would go – into villages, towns, or countryside – they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if ²¹  they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

[2:4]  ¹ sn A house in 1st century Palestine would have had a flat roof with stairs or a ladder going up. This access was often from the outside of the house.

[2:4]  ² tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:4]  ³ tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[6:10]  ¹ sn Jesus telling his disciples to stay there in one house contrasts with the practice of religious philosophers in the ancient world who went from house to house begging.

[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.”

[6:55]  ¹ tn Grk “wherever they heard he was.”

[14:9]  ¹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[4:15]  ¹ sn Interestingly, the synoptic parallels each use a different word for Satan here: Matt 13:19 has “the evil one,” while Luke 8:12 has “the devil.” This illustrates the fluidity of the gospel tradition in often using synonyms at the same point of the parallel tradition.

[4:15]  ² sn The word of Jesus has the potential to save if it germinates in a person’s heart, something the devil is very much against.

[5:40]  ¹ tn Grk “They were laughing at him.” The imperfect verb has been taken ingressively.

[5:40]  ² tn Or “threw them all outside.” The verb used, ἐκβάλλω (ekballw), almost always has the connotation of force in Mark.

[5:40]  ³ tn Grk “those with him.”

[5:40]  ⁴ tn Grk “into where the child was.”

[9:18]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[9:18]  ² tn The words “to do so” are not in the Greek text, but have been supplied for clarity and stylistic reasons.

[13:14]  ¹ sn The reference to the abomination of desolation is an allusion to Dan 9:27. Though some have seen the fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy in the actions of Antiochus IV (or a representative of his) in 167 b.c., the words of Jesus seem to indicate that Antiochus was not the final fulfillment, but that there was (from Jesus’ perspective) still another fulfillment yet to come. Some argue that this was realized in a.d. 70, while others claim that it refers specifically to Antichrist and will not be fully realized until the period of the great tribulation at the end of the age (cf. Mark 13:19, 24; Matt 24:21; Rev 3:10).

[13:14]  ² sn Fleeing to the mountains is a key OT image: Gen 19:17; Judg 6:2; Isa 15:5; Jer 16:16; Zech 14:5.

[16:6]  ¹ sn See the note on Crucify in 15:13.

[16:6]  ² tn The verb here is passive (ἠγέρθη, hgerqh). This “divine passive” (see ExSyn 437-38) points to the fact that Jesus was raised by God.

[6:56]  ¹ tn Grk “asked that they might touch.”