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Mark 5:41 — Talitha Cumi: The Aramaic Command and Its Greek Transmission
The Aramaic command survives in several spellings, especially “cumi” and “cum.” The received feminine form suits the girl addressed, while both forms could sound alike in later pronunciation.
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Mark 6:3 — “Is Not This the Carpenter?” A Reading Once Thought Scandalous
The received and modern critical texts call Jesus “the carpenter.” Some witnesses change the phrase to “the carpenter’s son,” apparently aligning Mark with Matthew and avoiding a description once treated as demeaning.
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Mark 6:11 — “More Tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha”: The Omitted Judgment Saying
The received mission charge ends with a comparison to Sodom and Gomorrah at judgment. The critical text omits the entire sentence, leaving the dust-shaking sign without Christ’s explicit interpretation.
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Mark 6:20 — Did Herod “Do Many Things” or Remain “Greatly Perplexed”?
Herod either acted on many of John’s words or was greatly perplexed by them. The difference between the two Greek verbs creates distinct portraits, though both end with his willing attention.
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Mark 6:22 — Herodias’s Daughter or Herod’s Daughter Herodias?
The received reading identifies the dancer as Herodias’s own daughter. A difficult critical form can be read as Herod’s daughter named Herodias, conflicting with the narrative’s next identification.
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Mark 6:33 — “Outwent Them” or “Came Together unto Him”? The Crowd’s Movement
The received narrative says the crowd both outran the boat and gathered to Jesus. The shorter critical form keeps the outstripping but omits the final gathering clause.
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Mark 7:4 — Washings of Cups, Pots, Brasen Vessels, and Tables
The list of inherited washings ends with “tables” or “couches” in the received text. Some witnesses omit the item because washing dining couches sounded incongruous.
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Mark 7:8 — “Laying Aside the Commandment of God”: Has the Rebuke Been Shortened?
Both forms accuse the Pharisees of abandoning God’s command for human tradition. The received text then repeats the vessel washings and says they do many similar things; the critical text omits that illustrative close.
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Mark 7:16 — “If Any Man Have Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear”
The received text places Jesus’ familiar hearing summons between his public parable and its private explanation. The critical text omits the whole verse as an apparent echo of Mark 4.
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Mark 7:19 — “Purging All Meats”: Grammar, Punctuation, and a Modern Interpretive Claim
The Greek word “cleansing” is overwhelmingly secure. The dispute concerns what it modifies and how editors punctuate the sentence: the bodily process or Jesus as narrator who thereby declared all foods clean.
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Mark 7:24 — The Borders of Tyre and Sidon: Does “Sidon” Belong?
The received destination names both Tyre and Sidon. The critical text names only Tyre, although verse 31 later describes Jesus traveling through Sidon on the return toward Galilee.
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Mark 8:15 — The Leaven of Herod or the Leaven of the Herodians?
The main received and critical texts warn against the leaven of Herod. Some witnesses substitute “the Herodians,” probably recalling the political group named elsewhere in Mark.
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