Psalms 34:9

34:9 Remain loyal to ¹  the Lord, you chosen people of his, ² 

for his loyal followers ³  lack nothing!

Psalms 97:10

97:10 You who love the Lord, hate evil!

He protects ⁴  the lives of his faithful followers;

he delivers them from the power ⁵  of the wicked.

Deuteronomy 10:12

An Exhortation to Love Both God and People

10:12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, ⁶  to obey all his commandments, ⁷  to love him, to serve him ⁸  with all your mind and being, ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 30:16

30:16 What ¹⁰  I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 56:6

56:6 As for foreigners who become followers of ¹²  the Lord and serve him,

who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants –

all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it,

and who are faithful to ¹³  my covenant –

Mark 12:23

12:23 In the resurrection, when they rise again, ¹⁴  whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her.” ¹⁵ 

Mark 12:1

The Parable of the Tenants

12:1 Then ¹⁶  he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. ¹⁷  He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then ¹⁸  he leased it to tenant farmers ¹⁹  and went on a journey.

Mark 4:1

The Parable of the Sower

4:1 Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while ²⁰  the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.

[34:9]  ¹ tn Heb “fear.”

[34:9]  ² tn Heb “O holy ones of his.”

[34:9]  ³ tn Heb “those who fear him.”

[97:10]  ⁴ tn The participle may be verbal, though it might also be understood as substantival and appositional to “the Lord.” In this case one could translate, “Hate evil, you who love the Lord, the one who protects the lives…and delivers them.”

[97:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “hand.”

[10:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

[10:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “to walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NAB “follow his ways exactly”; NLT “to live according to his will.”

[10:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

[10:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being”; NCV “with your whole being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[30:16]  ¹⁰ tc A number of LXX mss insert before this verse, “if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,” thus translating אֲשֶׁר (’asher) as “which” and the rest as “I am commanding you today, to love,” etc., “then you will live,” etc.

[30:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “which you are going there to possess it.” This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[56:6]  ¹² tn Heb “who attach themselves to.”

[56:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “and take hold of”; NAB “hold to”; NIV, NRSV “hold fast.”

[12:23]  ¹⁴ tc The words “when they rise again” are missing from several important witnesses (א B C D L W Δ Ψ 33 579 892 2427 pc c r¹ k sy^p co). They are included in A Θ Ë^1,(13) Ï lat sy^s,h. The strong external pedigree of the shorter reading gives one pause. Nevertheless, the Alexandrian and other mss most likely dropped the words from the text either to conform the wording to the parallel in Matt 22:28 or because “when they rise again” was redundant. But the inclusion of these words is thoroughly compatible with Mark’s usually pleonastic style (see TCGNT 93), and therefore most probably authentic to Mark’s Gospel.

[12:23]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “For the seven had her as wife.”

[12:1]  ¹⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[12:1]  ¹⁷ sn The vineyard is a figure for Israel in the OT (Isa 5:1-7). The nation and its leaders are the tenants, so the vineyard here may well refer to the promise that resides within the nation. The imagery is like that in Rom 11:11-24.

[12:1]  ¹⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[12:1]  ¹⁹ sn The leasing of land to tenant farmers was common in this period.

[4:1]  ²⁰ tn Grk “and all the crowd.” The clause in this phrase, although coordinate in terms of grammar, is logically subordinate to the previous clause.