Markus 6:24

6:24 So ¹  she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” Her mother ²  said, “The head of John the baptizer.” ³ 

Markus 7:26

7:26 The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She ⁴  asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Markus 7:30

7:30 She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

Markus 10:13

Jesus and Little Children

10:13 Now ⁵  people were bringing little children to him for him to touch, ⁶  but the disciples scolded those who brought them. ⁷ 

[6:24]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of previous action(s) in the narrative.

[6:24]  ² tn Grk “She said”; the referent (the girl’s mother) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:24]  ³ tn While Matthew and Luke consistently use the noun βαπτίστης (baptisths, “the Baptist”) to refer to John, as a kind of a title, Mark employs the substantival participle ὁ βαπτίζων (Jo baptizwn, “the one who baptizes, the baptizer”) to describe him (though twice he does use the noun [Mark 6:25; 8:28]).

[7:26]  ⁴ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[10:13]  ⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

[10:13]  ⁶ tn Grk “so that he would touch them.” Here the touch is connected with (or conveys) a blessing (cf. v. 16; also BDAG 126 s.v. ἅπτω 2.c).

[10:13]  ⁷ tc “Those who brought them” (ἐπετιμῶν τοῖς προσφέρουσιν, epetimwn toi" prosferousin) is the reading of most mss (A D W [Θ Ë^1,13] Ï lat sy), but it is probably a motivated reading. Since the subject is not explicit in the earliest and best witnesses as well as several others (א B C L Δ Ψ 579 892 2427), scribes would be prone to add “those who brought them” here to clarify that the children were not the ones being scolded. It could be argued that the masculine pronoun αὐτοῖς (autois, “them”) only rarely was used with the neuter antecedent παιδία (paidia, “children”), and thus the longer reading was not motivated by scribal clarification. However, such rare usage is found in Mark (cf. 5:41; 9:24-26); further, scribes routinely added clarifications when such were not necessary. Thus, both on external and internal grounds, the shorter reading is strongly preferred. Similar motivations are behind the translation here, namely, “those who brought them” has been supplied to ensure that the parents who brought the children are in view, not the children themselves.

[10:13]  tn Grk “the disciples scolded them.”