Luke 1:59

1:59 On ¹  the eighth day ²  they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name ³  him Zechariah after his father.

Genesis 17:12

17:12 Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old ⁴  must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.

Leviticus 12:3

12:3 On ⁵  the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin ⁶  must be circumcised.

Matthew 3:15

3:15 So Jesus replied ⁷  to him, “Let it happen now, ⁸  for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John ⁹  yielded ¹⁰  to him.

Galatians 4:4-5

4:4 But when the appropriate time ¹¹  had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 4:5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights. ¹² 

Philippians 2:8

2:8 He humbled himself,

by becoming obedient to the point of death

– even death on a cross!

¹ tn Grk “And it happened that.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

² sn They were following OT law (Lev 12:3) which prescribed that a male child was to be circumcised on the eighth day.

³ tn This could be understood as a conative imperfect, expressing an unrealized desire (“they were trying to name him”). It has been given more of a voluntative nuance in the translation.

⁴ tn Heb “the son of eight days.”

⁵ tn Heb “and in….”

⁶ tn This rendering, “the flesh of his foreskin,” is literal. Based on Lev 15:2-3, one could argue that the Hebrew word for “flesh” here (בָּשָׂר, basar) is euphemistic for the male genitals and therefore translate “the foreskin of his member” (see, e.g., J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:748). A number of English versions omit this reference to the foreskin and mention only circumcision, presumably for euphemistic reasons (cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

⁷ tn Grk “but Jesus, answering, said.” This construction with passive participle and finite verb is pleonastic (redundant) and has been simplified in the translation to “replied to him.”

⁸ tn Grk “Permit now.”

⁹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (John the Baptist) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Or “permitted him.”

¹¹ tn Grk “the fullness of time” (an idiom for the totality of a period of time, with the implication of proper completion; see L&N 67.69).

¹² tn The Greek term υἱοθεσία (Juioqesia) was originally a legal technical term for adoption as a son with full rights of inheritance. BDAG 1024 s.v. notes, “a legal t.t. of ‘adoption’ of children, in our lit., i.e. in Paul, only in a transferred sense of a transcendent filial relationship between God and humans (with the legal aspect, not gender specificity, as major semantic component).” Although some modern translations remove the filial sense completely and render the term merely “adoption” (cf. NAB), the retention of this component of meaning was accomplished in the present translation by the phrase “as sons.”