16 And after[a] taking them[b] into his arms, he blessed them, placing his[c] hands on them.

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17 And as[d] he was setting out on his way, one individual ran up and knelt down before him and[e] asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do so that I will inherit eternal life?” 18 So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 10:16 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“taking … into his arms”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Mark 10:16 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Mark 10:16 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  4. Mark 10:17 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was setting out”)
  5. Mark 10:17 Here “and” is supplied because the two previous participles (“ran up” and “knelt down before”) have been translated as finite verbs