Markus 1:40

Cleansing a Leper

1:40 Now ¹  a leper ²  came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. “If ³  you are willing, you can make me clean,” he said.

Markus 6:37

6:37 But he answered them, ⁴  “You ⁵  give them something to eat.” And they said, “Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins ⁶  and give it to them to eat?”

Markus 8:11

The Demand for a Sign

8:11 Then the Pharisees ⁷  came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for ⁸  a sign from heaven ⁹  to test him.

Markus 8:22

A Two-stage Healing

8:22 Then ¹⁰  they came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to Jesus ¹¹  and asked him to touch him.

[1:40]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

[1:40]  ² sn The ancient term for leprosy covers a wider array of conditions than what we call leprosy today. A leper was totally ostracized from society until he was declared cured (Lev 13:45-46).

[1:40]  ³ tn This is a third class condition. The report portrays the leper making no presumptions about whether Jesus will heal him or not.

[6:37]  ⁴ tn Grk “answering, he said to them.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqeis) is redundant, but the syntax of the sentence has been changed for clarity.

[6:37]  ⁵ tn Here the pronoun ὑμεῖς (Jumeis) is used, making “you” in the translation emphatic.

[6:37]  ⁶ sn The silver coin referred to here is the denarius. A denarius, inscribed with a picture of Tiberius Caesar, was worth approximately one day’s wage for a laborer. Two hundred denarii was thus approximately equal to eight months’ wages. The disciples did not have the resources in their possession to feed the large crowd, so Jesus’ request is his way of causing them to trust him as part of their growth in discipleship.

[8:11]  ⁷ sn See the note on Pharisees in 2:16.

[8:11]  ⁸ tn Grk “seeking from him.” The participle ζητοῦντες (zhtountes) shows the means by which the Pharisees argued with Jesus.

[8:11]  ⁹ sn What exactly this sign would have been, given what Jesus was already doing, is not clear. But here is where the fence-sitters reside, refusing to commit to him.

[8:22]  ¹⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[8:22]  ¹¹ tn Grk “to him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.