Markus 1:10

1:10 And just as Jesus ¹  was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens ²  splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. ³ 

Markus 8:3

8:3 If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance.”

Markus 12:44

12:44 For they all gave out of their wealth. ⁴  But she, out of her poverty, put in what she had to live on, everything she had.” ⁵ 

Markus 14:54

14:54 And Peter had followed him from a distance, up to the high priest’s courtyard. He ⁶  was sitting with the guards ⁷  and warming himself by the fire.

Markus 15:32

15:32 Let the Christ, ⁸  the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!” Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him. ⁹ 

[1:10]  ¹ tn Grk “and immediately coming up out of the water, he saw.” The present participle has been translated temporally, with the subject (Jesus) specified for clarity.

[1:10]  ² tn Or “sky.” The Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context. The same word is used in v. 11.

[1:10]  ³ sn The phrase like a dove is a descriptive comparison. The Spirit is not a dove, but descended like one in some sort of bodily representation.

[12:44]  ⁴ tn Grk “out of what abounded to them.”

[12:44]  ⁵ sn The contrast between this passage, 12:41-44, and what has come before in 11:27-12:40 is remarkable. The woman is set in stark contrast to the religious leaders. She was a poor widow, they were rich. She was uneducated in the law, they were well educated in the law. She was a woman, they were men. But whereas they evidenced no faith and actually stole money from God and men (cf. 11:17), she evidenced great faith and gave out of her extreme poverty everything she had.

[14:54]  ⁶ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[14:54]  ⁷ sn The guards would have been the guards of the chief priests who had accompanied Judas to arrest Jesus.

[15:32]  ⁸ tn Or “the Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[15:32]  sn See the note on Christ in 8:29.

[15:32]  ⁹ sn Mark’s wording suggests that both of the criminals spoke abusively to him. If so, one of them quickly changed his attitude toward Jesus (see Luke 23:40-43).