Omitted also by Matthew

Part of “Great Omission” or “Little Omission”*

Mark

Description

X

3:21

Jesus’s family comes to seize him

X

4:26–29

Parable of seed growing secretly

X

6:47–52

Jesus walks on water

X

6:53–56

Healings in Gennesaret

X

7:1–23

Eating with defiled hands

X

7:24–30

Teaching on defilement

X

X

7:31–37

Healing of deaf man

X

8:1–10

Feeding of the four thousand

X

8:11–13

Pharisees ask for a sign

X

8:14–21

Discourse on bread and leaven

X

X

8:22–26

Healing of blind man of Bethsaida

9:9–13

Elijah must come first

X

9:41–48

Reward and punishment

X

9:49–50

On being salty

X

10:–12

On marriage and divorce

10:35–40

Question from the sons of Zebedee

11:12–14

Cursing of the fig tree

11:20–25

Lesson of the fig tree

14:3–9

Anointing in Bethany (but see Luke 7:36–50)

15:16–20

Mocking of Jesus by soldiers

* “Great Omission” = Mark 6:45–8:26; “Little Omission” = Mark 9:41–10:12. Since Luke omits everything from these sections of Mark, some scholars wonder if his copy of Mark was defective.