Acts 10:33

10:33 Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. ¹  So now we are all here in the presence of God ²  to listen ³  to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us.” ⁴ 

Acts 28:28

28:28 “Therefore be advised ⁵  that this salvation from God ⁶  has been sent to the Gentiles; ⁷  they ⁸  will listen!”

Ezekiel 3:6

3:6 not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand ⁹  – surely if ¹⁰  I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!

Matthew 11:21

11:21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! ¹¹  Woe to you, Bethsaida! If ¹²  the miracles ¹³  done in you had been done in Tyre ¹⁴  and Sidon, ¹⁵  they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 19:30

19:30 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

¹ tn Grk “you have done well by coming.” The idiom καλῶς ποιεῖν (kalw" poiein) is translated “be kind enough to do someth.” by BDAG 505-6 s.v. καλῶς 4.a. The participle παραγενόμενος (paragenomeno") has been translated as an English infinitive due to the nature of the English idiom (“kind enough to” + infinitive).

² tn The translation “we are here in the presence of God” for ἐνώπιον τοῦ θεοῦ πάρεσμεν (enwpion tou qeou paresmen) is given by BDAG 773 s.v. πάρειμι 1.a.

³ tn Or “to hear everything.”

⁴ tn The words “to say to us” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Cornelius knows Peter is God’s representative, bringing God’s message.

⁵ tn Grk “Therefore let it be known to you.”

⁶ tn Or “of God.”

⁷ sn The term Gentiles is in emphatic position in the Greek text of this clause. Once again there is the pattern: Jewish rejection of the gospel leads to an emphasis on Gentile inclusion (Acts 13:44-47).

⁸ tn Grk “they also.”

⁹ tn Heb “hear.”

¹⁰ tc The MT reads “if not” but most ancient versions translate only “if.” The expression occurs with this sense in Isa 5:9; 14:24. See also Ezek 34:8; 36:5; 38:19.

¹¹ sn Chorazin was a town of Galilee that was probably fairly small in contrast to Bethsaida and is otherwise unattested. Bethsaida was declared a polis by the tetrarch Herod Philip, sometime after a.d. 30.

¹² tn This introduces a second class (contrary to fact) condition in the Greek text.

¹³ tn Or “powerful deeds.”

¹⁴ map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

¹⁵ sn Tyre and Sidon are two other notorious OT cities (Isa 23; Jer 25:22; 47:4). The remark is a severe rebuke, in effect: “Even the sinners of the old era would have responded to the proclamation of the kingdom, unlike you!”