Mark, edition 0.1: scorecard

The checks

Verses

678

Passages drafted

124

Decisions recorded

2500

Notes

219

Verses the SBLGNT doesn’t print

5

Verses flagged for a reviewer

29

Wording shared with open translations

Every verse is compared with the BSB, WEB, KJV, ASV and YLT, and a run of eight or more words in a row shared with any of them is flagged, so the wording stays the translation’s own. 28 verses are flagged: in 14 the wording was kept with a reason, 6 were revised but still share a run, 8 were made by the final revision with nothing answering them, and 0 were never answered.

Verses flagged for a reviewer (29)

• Mark 1:1
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 8 words in a row with kjv:MRK.1.1: “the beginning of the gospel of jesus christ”)
  • The final revision made a long run shared with an open translation, not yet answered (the first draft shared no run this long here: the adjudicator’s final draft made it, and no disposition answers it)
• Mark 1:40
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 9 words in a row with bsb:MRK.1.40: “if you are willing you can make me clean”; the adjudicator kept the wording: The flagged run through "on his knees" is broken by "fell on his knees, and begged him", which is just as faithful. The quotation "If you are willing, you can make me clean" still shares nine words with BSB, and the only other natural form is WEB's. Its plain wording leaves no other faithful, natural English, so it stays and the verse goes to the reviewer flagged, as d17 records.)
• Mark 3:18
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 13 words in a row with bsb:MRK.3.18: “andrew philip bartholomew matthew thomas james son of alphaeus thaddaeus simon the zealot”; the adjudicator kept the wording: The verse is a list of names, and its plain wording leaves no other faithful, natural English. Any comma list shares the run with the BSB or WEB, restoring each 'and' copies the KJV and ASV, and reordering or pairing the names would change the text. d12 records this, and the verse goes to the reviewer flagged.)
• Mark 5:37
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 10 words in a row with web:MRK.5.37: “him except peter james and john the brother of james”)
  • The final revision made a long run shared with an open translation, not yet answered (the first draft shared no run this long here: the adjudicator’s final draft made it, and no disposition answers it)
• Mark 6:20
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 8 words in a row with bsb:MRK.6.20: “a righteous and holy man when he heard”)
  • The final revision made a long run shared with an open translation, not yet answered (the first draft shared no run this long here: the adjudicator’s final draft made it, and no disposition answers it)
• Mark 6:45
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 8 words in a row with web:MRK.6.45: “made his disciples get into the boat and”)
  • Revised after the similarity check, but still shares a long run of words (the adjudicator accepted the first draft’s flag here (Verse 45 now opens 'Jesus at once made his disciples get into the boat and set off', moving 'at once' after the name; the longest shared run is 7 words and the meaning is unchanged.), but the final draft still shares a run of 8 words)
• Mark 7:3
  • A decision here was made with low confidence (MRK.7.1-5:d10 “carefully” (low confidence): πυγμῇ literally means 'with the fist', and its exact sense is doubtful. 'Carefully' follows the Macula gloss and the sense 'diligently'. The note gives the literal wording and the other reading.)
• Mark 8:31
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 8 words in a row with bsb:MRK.8.31: “scribes and that he must be killed and”)
  • Revised after the similarity check, but still shares a long run of words (the adjudicator accepted the first draft’s flag here (Repeating 'by' before each articled group ('by the elders, by the chief priests and by the scribes') sets the groups apart as the Greek does, reads naturally, and changes no sense. The longest run shared with the WEB and ASV is now six words.), but the final draft still shares a run of 8 words)
• Mark 9:7
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 8 words in a row with web:MRK.9.7: “this is my beloved son listen to him”; the adjudicator kept the wording: The divine words 'This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.' are short and plain; any other wording would alter the formula's sense or echo of the baptism voice, or read stiffer (for example the archaic 'Hear him'). The run is kept, explained in d3, and the verse goes to the reviewer.)
• Mark 9:26
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 8 words in a row with bsb:MRK.9.26: “came out the boy became like a corpse”)
  • Revised after the similarity check, but still shares a long run of words (the adjudicator accepted the first draft’s flag here (Fixed by rendering ὥστε as 'and so' instead of 'so that'. The longest run shared with the BSB is now seven words ('came out. The boy became like a corpse'), and the meaning is unchanged: the boy's corpse-like state is still what leads most of the people to say he is dead.), but the final draft still shares a run of 8 words)
• Mark 10:8
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 8 words in a row with bsb:MRK.10.8: “they are no longer two but one flesh”)
  • The final revision made a long run shared with an open translation, not yet answered (the first draft shared no run this long here: the adjudicator’s final draft made it, and no disposition answers it)
• Mark 10:19
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 27 words in a row with web:MRK.10.19: “you know the commandments do not murder do not commit adultery do not steal do not give false testimony do not defraud honor your father and mother”; the adjudicator kept the wording: The list of commandments is a fixed formula. Each prohibition is μή with the aorist subjunctive, plainly 'Do not', and each verb has one plain rendering. The BSB and WEB between them use the remaining options ('bear false witness', 'cheat others'), and the order cannot change. Any faithful, natural wording shares long runs, so the verse stays as it is and goes to the reviewer flagged (d10).)
• Mark 11:17
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 20 words in a row with bsb:MRK.11.17: “is it not written my house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations but you have”; the adjudicator kept the wording: The core of the run is the Isaiah 56:7 quotation, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations', which is thirteen words. It has no equally faithful, natural alternative, and recognizability matters (brief section 9). Trimming the frame words would leave a run well over 8, so the wording is kept and the verse goes to the reviewer flagged.)
• Mark 12:26
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 16 words in a row with bsb:MRK.12.26: “him i am the god of abraham the god of isaac and the god of jacob”; the adjudicator kept the wording: The run is the Exodus 3:6 formula 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob', which has no other faithful, natural rendering (the 'and' form matches the KJV and ASV as closely); replacing 'him' with 'Moses' would add a word and still leave fifteen. d13 says so and the verse goes to the reviewer flagged.)
• Mark 12:29
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 10 words in a row with web:MRK.12.29: “hear israel the lord our god the lord is one”; the adjudicator kept the wording: The run is the Shema itself. 'Listen' still leaves a 9-word run, and any change in the middle ('the Lord is our God', 'one Lord') changes how the creed is read. No equally faithful, natural wording exists, so the verse goes to the reviewer flagged, as d9 records.)
• Mark 12:30
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 24 words in a row with bsb:MRK.12.30: “love the lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength”; the adjudicator kept the wording: This is the fixed wording of Deut 6:5, which §9 asks readers to recognize. 'With your whole heart…' still shares 'you shall love the Lord your God with' (8 words) with WEB and reads less naturally. Dropping the repeated 'and with' would lose the form (§3). The verse goes to the reviewer flagged, as d12 records.)
• Mark 12:34
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 9 words in a row with bsb:MRK.12.34: “you are not far from the kingdom of god”)
  • Revised after the similarity check, but still shares a long run of words (the adjudicator accepted the first draft’s flag here (The narrative opening is recast as 'Seeing that the scribe had answered wisely, Jesus said to him', which breaks the WEB run without changing the sense. The nine-word saying shared with the BSB stays as unavoidable plain wording, explained in d14.), but the final draft still shares a run of 9 words)
• Mark 13:33
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 14 words in a row with bsb:MRK.13.33: “be on your guard and stay alert for you do not know when the”)
  • The final revision made a long run shared with an open translation, not yet answered (the first draft shared no run this long here: the adjudicator’s final draft made it, and no disposition answers it)
• Mark 13:35
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 10 words in a row with bsb:MRK.13.35: “you do not know when the master of the house”; the adjudicator kept the wording: 'You do not know when' deliberately repeats v. 33 so listeners hear the echo, and 'the master of the house' is the plain, faithful rendering of κύριος τῆς οἰκίας, paired with 'slaves'. Substitutes such as 'owner' or 'householder' would weaken that pairing or sound stiffer. No equally faithful, natural wording exists, so the verse goes to the reviewer flagged, as d14 records.)
• Mark 14:21
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 8 words in a row with asv:MRK.14.21: “through whom the son of man is betrayed”)
  • Revised after the similarity check, but still shares a long run of words (the adjudicator accepted the first draft’s flag here (The shared run is broken by rendering the contrastive δέ as 'Yet' in place of 'But' ('Yet woe to that man'). This is just as faithful to the μέν…δέ contrast, reads naturally aloud and leaves the meaning unchanged. d14 records the change.), but the final draft still shares a run of 8 words)
• Mark 14:60
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 8 words in a row with web:MRK.14.60: “the high priest stood up in the middle”)
  • The final revision made a long run shared with an open translation, not yet answered (the first draft shared no run this long here: the adjudicator’s final draft made it, and no disposition answers it)
• Mark 14:62
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 13 words in a row with bsb:MRK.14.62: “at the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven”; the adjudicator kept the wording: The run 'at the right hand of Power and coming with the clouds of heaven' renders fixed allusions to Psalm 110:1 and Daniel 7:13. Every alternative tried either changes the sense (μετά as 'among' or 'on', dropping καί) or is stiffer English ('heaven's clouds'). Adding 'the' before 'Power' still leaves an 8-word run. The wording is kept as d21 and d22 explain, and the verse goes to the reviewer flagged.)
• Mark 14:70
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 8 words in a row with bsb:MRK.14.70: “to peter surely you are one of them”)
  • The final revision made a long run shared with an open translation, not yet answered (the first draft shared no run this long here: the adjudicator’s final draft made it, and no disposition answers it)
• Mark 14:72
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 16 words in a row with bsb:MRK.14.72: “jesus had spoken to him before the rooster crows twice you will deny me three times”; the adjudicator kept the wording: Most of the shared run is Jesus' prediction from 14:30, which Peter recalls; its plain wording ('Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times') has no equally faithful, natural alternative, and recasting it or changing the lead-in alone would either alter the echo of 14:30 or still leave a run of eight or more. The verse goes to the reviewer flagged, as d16 states.)
• Mark 15:1
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 8 words in a row with bsb:MRK.15.1: “him away and handed him over to pilate”)
  • Revised after the similarity check, but still shares a long run of words (the adjudicator accepted the first draft’s flag here (“with the elders” becomes “together with the elders”, which renders μετά just as faithfully and reads just as naturally. The longest run shared with ASV is now four words, and the meaning is unchanged.), but the final draft still shares a run of 8 words)
• Mark 15:20
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 8 words in a row with bsb:MRK.15.20: “then they led him out to crucify him”)
  • The final revision made a long run shared with an open translation, not yet answered (the first draft shared no run this long here: the adjudicator’s final draft made it, and no disposition answers it)
• Mark 15:34
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 10 words in a row with bsb:MRK.15.34: “means my god my god why have you forsaken me”; the adjudicator kept the wording: Even without 'means', 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me' is nine words shared with the BSB and WEB. It is the plain, faithful rendering of a quotation of Psalm 22:1, which section 9 asks to keep recognizable; 'abandon' or 'did you forsake' would only lose that familiarity to break the run. The verse goes to the reviewer flagged, as d12 records.)
• Mark 15:47
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 8 words in a row with web:MRK.15.47: “mary magdalene and mary the mother of joses”; the adjudicator kept the wording: The shared run is the list of names itself, 'Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses'. Any faithful wording keeps it together, and alternatives such as 'Joses' mother Mary' or adding 'the other' are less natural aloud or add words. Kept, recorded in d25, and the verse goes to the reviewer flagged.)
• Mark 16:1
  • Shares a long run of words with an open translation (shares 12 words in a row with bsb:MRK.16.1: “mary magdalene mary the mother of james and salome bought spices so”; the adjudicator kept the wording: The shared run is the list of three names, whose order and wording the Greek and the names table fix: 'Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome'. Adding 'and' only moves the run to the WEB, KJV and ASV. The plain verb 'bought' is kept, as the read-aloud review asked, so the verse goes to the reviewer flagged, as decision d2 records.)

Disputed passages (10)

The crux list is not yet settled with a reviewer (brief, section 10), so every crux here is provisional: the pilot sets’ cruxes, and the textual crux the book’s plan adds on each verse the base text doesn’t print, whose required note (section 2) then doesn’t count toward the footnote budget.

• Mark 1:1

  The SBLGNT ends the title at Ἰησοῦ χριστοῦ; its apparatus shows other editions adding υἱοῦ θεοῦ, "Son of God". Which goes in the text, and what does the note say?

• Mark 1:2

  The SBLGNT credits to "Isaiah the prophet" a quotation that joins Malachi 3:1 (with Exodus 23:20) to Isaiah 40:3; the Byzantine text reads "the prophets".

• Mark 1:41

  The SBLGNT reads ὀργισθεὶς, "becoming angry"; its apparatus shows Westcott-Hort, Tregelles and the Byzantine text reading σπλαγχνισθεὶς, "moved with compassion".

• Mark 7:16

  The SBLGNT doesn’t print this verse; the Byzantine text and the Textus Receptus have it. The verse keeps its number with empty text: how does its note give the verse as they read it, and say that the SBLGNT leaves it out?

• Mark 9:44

  The SBLGNT doesn’t print this verse; the Byzantine text and the Textus Receptus have it. The verse keeps its number with empty text: how does its note give the verse as they read it, and say that the SBLGNT leaves it out?

• Mark 9:46

  The SBLGNT doesn’t print this verse; the Byzantine text and the Textus Receptus have it. The verse keeps its number with empty text: how does its note give the verse as they read it, and say that the SBLGNT leaves it out?

• Mark 11:26

  The SBLGNT doesn’t print this verse; the Byzantine text and the Textus Receptus have it. The verse keeps its number with empty text: how does its note give the verse as they read it, and say that the SBLGNT leaves it out?

• Mark 15:28

  The SBLGNT doesn’t print this verse; the Byzantine text and the Textus Receptus have it. The verse keeps its number with empty text: how does its note give the verse as they read it, and say that the SBLGNT leaves it out?

• Mark 16:8

  The SBLGNT closes 16:8 at ἐφοβοῦντο γάρ and prints the shorter ending after it in double brackets. How are the end of the verse and the shorter ending set and noted?

• Mark 16:9

  The longer ending (16:9–20) begins here, in double brackets in the SBLGNT: in the text, bracketed, with a note on its manuscript support (brief, section 2).

Notes by chapter

The translation brief allows one note for every three verses, averaged over each chapter, not counting notes on disputed passages.

Passages drafted again before the freeze

• MRK.16.5-8, MRK.16.9-14: Keep the shorter ending at 16:8 in double brackets with a note on its manuscript support, and name the apparatus's editions in notes as readers know them (review of edition 0.1)
• MRK.6.1-4, MRK.6.46-50, MRK.7.29-32: Keep each chapter to the brief's footnote budget, one note outside the cruxes for every three verses averaged over the chapter: these units had more than their share of it (review of edition 0.1)
• MRK.16.9-14: Keep the comments on 16:9 in the context, where Adam Clarke reports the manuscripts that lack the longer ending, so its note can give its manuscript support (review of edition 0.1)

Provenance

Drafted by

claude-opus-5-5 (effort high), run MRK-20261101T011744Z

Translation brief

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Frozen

2026-11-01T07:52:05.077Z

Content SHA-256

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