Markus 4:20

4:20 But ¹  these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.”

Markus 8:31

First Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection

8:31 Then ²  Jesus ³  began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer ⁴  many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, ⁵  and be killed, and after three days rise again.

[4:20]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[8:31]  ² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[8:31]  ³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:31]  ⁴ sn The necessity that the Son of Man suffer is the particular point that needed emphasis, since for many 1st century Jews the Messiah was a glorious and powerful figure, not a suffering one.

[8:31]  ⁵ tn Or “and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.