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Mark 10:34 Explained in Context
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Verse 34. 34And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
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Quick Meaning
This verse completes the unit at Mark 10:34 in “A Third Passion Prediction Names Jerusalem's Violence”: “And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he…”.
Read It With
- Mark 10:32-34
Read Mark 10:34 with 10:32-34. This verse completes the unit at Mark 10:34 in “A Third Passion Prediction Names Jerusalem's Violence”: “And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he…”. The complete unit's controlling movement is: As Jesus leads the fearful group toward Jerusalem, he privately details delivery to chief priests, scribes, and Gentiles, mockery, scourging, killing, and rising on the third day.
Why This Verse Appears Here
This verse completes the unit at Mark 10:34 in “A Third Passion Prediction Names Jerusalem's Violence”: “And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he…”. This specific contribution advances Mark 10:32-34 toward its narrated or taught result.
What Remains True
Jesus knowingly leads toward rejection and Roman execution while naming the specific agents and promised resurrection. At Mark 10:34, completes the unit at Mark 10:34 in “A Third Passion Prediction Names Jerusalem's Violence”: “And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he…”.
How It Can Shape Life
- At Mark 10:34, tell the truth about institutional and state violence without assigning collective ethnic guilt or romanticizing preventable suffering. This verse contributes to that response because it completes the unit at Mark 10:34 in “A Third Passion Prediction Names Jerusalem's Violence”: “And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he…”.
Continue in Context
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Read Mark 10:32-34 — A Third Passion Prediction Names Jerusalem's ViolenceSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: Mark 10:32-34, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, sentence relations, and material variants checked independently of the KJV.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Mark.txt, 10:32-34
Open the Mark Greek text file ↗Translation and textual notes
NET Bible — Mark with translators' and textual notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005–2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, older-English clarification, variants, background, and alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible Mark PDF, printed pp. 1868–1901, 10:32-34 and attached translator/textual notes
Open the official NET Mark PDF ↗