Mark 1:6 | Eating Honey considered clean | Babylonian Talmud | Bechoroth 7b | Go to Reference |
Mark 1:25 | R. Simeon casting out a demon | Babylonian Talmud | Meilah 17b | Go to Reference |
Mark 1:38 | A village is an unwalled town | Babylonian Talmud | Megilah 2b | Go to Reference |
Mark 1:45 | A leper permitted to enter a synagogue given that they make a partition for him inside | Babylonian Talmud | Negaim 13.12 | Go to Reference |
Mark 2:4 | Letting a bier down through the roof | Babylonian Talmud | Moed Katan 25a | Go to Reference |
Mark 2:4 | People would bring food into the house through the roof, so as to not tithe on it | Babylonian Talmud | Gittin 81a | Go to Reference |
Mark 2:4 | Things brought in through the roof are not liable to tithes | Babylonian Talmud | Baba Metzia 88a | Go to Reference |
Mark 2:16 | Jewish Belief: Unfit of a scholar to sit at a meal with ignorant people | Babylonian Talmud | Berachoth 43b | Go to Reference |
Mark 2:27 | The sabbath for you, not you for the sabbath | Babylonian Talmud | Yoma 85b | Go to Reference |
Mark 4:30 | “To what may something be compared?” | Babylonian Talmud | Zevachim 82a | Go to Reference |
Mark 5:1 | Gadara, a place with warm baths in Syria | Eunapius | Life Plotinus | Go to Reference |
Mark 5:2 | Those consulting the dead, starve themselves, stay in cemeteries | Babylonian Talmud | Sanhedrin 65b | Go to Reference |
Mark 5:2 | One should not spend the night in the graveyard so as to have a spirit rest on them | Babylonian Talmud | Nidah 17a | Go to Reference |
Mark 5:2 | A man who spent the night in the cemetary considered insane | Babylonian Talmud | Chagigah 3b | Go to Reference |
Mark 5:20 | Gadara placed in the region of the Decapolis | Pliny the Elder | Hist. Nat. 5.16 | Go to Reference |
Mark 5:26 | Extensive list of remedies for a woman’s discharge | Babylonian Talmud | Shabbath 110b | Go to Reference |
Mark 6:3 | Great is torah study alongside work in a trade | Pirke Avoth | Avoth 2.2 | Go to Reference |
Mark 6:13 | Anointing used medicinally for sickness or scabs on the head | Babylonian Talmud | Yoma 77b | Go to Reference |
Mark 6:45 | Town of Bethsaida along the Sea of Gennesaret | Pliny the Elder | Hist. Nat. 5.15 | Go to Reference |
Mark 6:53 | The land of Gennesaret around the sea of Galilee | Josephus | War 3.10.8 | Go to Reference |
Mark 7:2 | An Am Harez: One who insists on not eating food in a ritualistically clean manner | Babylonian Talmud | Gittin 61a | Go to Reference |
Mark 7:3 | The washing of hands for common food must go up to the joint (wrist) | Babylonian Talmud | Chullin 106a-b | Go to Reference |
Mark 7:3 | Hands must be washed for common food, but immersed for consecrated things | Babylonian Talmud | Chagigah 18b | Go to Reference |
Mark 7:4 | Rules for washing dishes the evening before the sabbath | Babylonian Talmud | Shabbath 118a | Go to Reference |
Mark 7:4 | Uncleanness of a table | Babylonian Talmud | Kelim 22.1-2 | Go to Reference |
Mark 7:11 | Korban, a thing which is devoted to God | Josephus | Ag. Ap. 1.22 | Go to Reference |
Mark 7:11 | Corban, a thing dedicated to God | Josephus | Ant. 4.4.4 | Go to Reference |
Mark 7:32 | One who can speak but not hear, cannot give a Terumoth | Babylonian Talmud | Terumoth 1.2 | Go to Reference |
Mark 8:10 | Zalmon/Dalmonutha | Babylonian Talmud | Baba Bathra 82b | Go to Reference |
Mark 8:23 | Tradition that the spittle of the firstborn has healing qualities | Babylonian Talmud | Baba Bathra 126b | Go to Reference |
Mark 8:23 | It is forbidden to put saliva in one’s eye on the sabbath | Babylonian Talmud | Shabbath 108b | Go to Reference |
Mark 8:23 | Vespasian’s spit used to cure a blind man | Tacitus | Hist. 4.81 | Go to Reference |
Mark 9:44 | Fire of Gehenna, where worms shall not die, and the fire not be quenched | Babylonian Talmud | Pesachim 54a | Go to Reference |
Mark 9:49 | The salting of offerings | Babylonian Talmud | Menachoth 21b | Go to Reference |
Mark 12:21 | In Levirite marriage, the eldest brother’s duty is to take the woman in marriage | Babylonian Talmud | Yevamoth 39a | Go to Reference |
Mark 13:34 | A Journey far off, is Modiim or further, 15 miles | Babylonian Talmud | Pesachim 93b | Go to Reference |
Mark 14:3 | Alabaster as container for perfumes | Pliny the Elder | Hist. Nat. 13.3-4 | Go to Reference |
Mark 14:55 | Levites only ones that can try capital offenses | Babylonian Talmud | Sanhedrin 32a | Go to Reference |
Mark 14:55 | Matter of trial for capital offenses | Babylonian Talmud | Sanhedrin 32a | Go to Reference |
Mark 14:56 | For trials, testimonies must adhere as one | Babylonian Talmud | Sanhedrin 30a | Go to Reference |
Mark 15:9 | The Jews murdered their king | Mara Bar Serapion | Ep. 28-36 | Go to Reference |
Mark 15:13 | Seneca describes the hanging on the cross as “the most pitiable thing in the world” | Seneca | Ep. 101 | Go to Reference |
Mark 15:13 | Having one’s limbs outstretched on the cross | Seneca | Dial. 3.2 | Go to Reference |
Mark 15:15 | Someone scourging and crucifying their guide | Livy | Hist. Rome 22.13 | Go to Reference |
Mark 15:15 | Being mangled with stripes before crucifixion | Livy | Hist. Rome 28.37 | Go to Reference |
Mark 15:20 | Crucifixion done in the sight of all, as a lesson | Polybius | Hist. 1.86 | Go to Reference |
Mark 15:20 | Torture of victim added to crucifixion | Polybius | Hist. 1.86 | Go to Reference |
Mark 15:21 | In a dream, if one carries a demon into the under world, it means you will carry your cross to death | Artemidorus | Oneicritica 2.56 | Go to Reference |
Mark 15:21 | Every criminal must carry his own cross | Plutarch | Mor. 554 | Go to Reference |
Mark 15:24 | Crucifixion the most miserable and most painful punishment, for slaves only | Cicero | Pro Verres 66 | Go to Reference |
Mark 15:26 | An inscription, describing why a man was to be crucified | Cassius Dio | Rom. Hist. 54.3.7-8 | Go to Reference |
Mark 16:1 | Spices and myrrh used for embalming | Herodotus | Hist. 2.86 | Go to Reference |
Mark 16:1 | Myrrh that smells as funerals | Martialis | Epigrams 11.54 | Go to Reference |
Mark 16:1 | If there are multiple witnesses they are to be believed, even women and slaves | Babylonian Talmud | Kethuboth 27b | Go to Reference |
Mark 16:1 | Mention is made of the spices of the dead | Babylonian Talmud | Berachoth 51b | Go to Reference |
Mark 16:3 | The stone over a grave, and the one propping it up are unclean | Babylonian Talmud | Oholoth 2.4 | Go to Reference |