Markus 10:38

10:38 But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?” ¹ 

Markus 13:14

The Abomination of Desolation

13:14 “But when you see the abomination of desolation ²  standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee ³  to the mountains.

Markus 14:40

14:40 When he came again he found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. ⁴  And they did not know what to tell him.

[10:38]  ¹ tn Grk “baptism I am baptized with.” This same change has been made in v. 39.

[13:14]  ² 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]  ³ 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.

[14:40]  ⁴ tn Grk “because their eyes were weighed down,” an idiom for becoming extremely or excessively sleepy (L&N 23.69).