Genesis 42:23

42:23 (Now ¹  they did not know that Joseph could understand them, ²  for he was speaking through an interpreter.) ³ 

Luke 24:39

24:39 Look at my hands and my feet; it’s me! ⁴  Touch me and see; a ghost ⁵  does not have flesh and bones like you see I have.”

John 20:27

20:27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put ⁶  your finger here, and examine ⁷  my hands. Extend ⁸  your hand and put it ⁹  into my side. Do not continue in your unbelief, but believe.” ¹⁰ 

¹ tn The disjunctive clause provides supplemental information that is important to the story.

² tn “was listening.” The brothers were not aware that Joseph could understand them as they spoke the preceding words in their native language.

³ tn Heb “for [there was] an interpreter between them.” On the meaning of the word here translated “interpreter” see HALOT 590 s.v. מֵלִיץ and M. A. Canney, “The Hebrew melis (Prov IX 12; Gen XLII 2-3),” AJSL 40 (1923/24): 135-37.

⁴ tn Grk “that it is I myself.”

⁵ tn See tc note on “ghost” in v. 37.

⁶ tn Or “Extend” or “Reach out.” The translation “put” or “reach out” for φέρω (ferw) here is given in BDAG 1052 s.v. 4.

⁷ tn Grk “see.” The Greek verb ἴδε (ide) is often used like its cognate ἰδού (idou) in Hellenistic Greek (which is “used to emphasize the …importance of someth.” [BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 1.b.ε]).

⁸ tn Or “reach out” or “put.”

⁹ tn The word “it” is not in the Greek text but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

¹⁰ tn Grk “and do not be unbelieving, but believing.”