24:44 Then 4 he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me 5 in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms 6 must be fulfilled.”
1 sn This scripture must be fulfilled in me. The statement again reflects the divine necessity of God’s plan. See 4:43-44.
2 tn Or “with the lawless.”
3 tn Grk “is having its fulfillment.”
4 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
5 sn Everything written about me. The divine plan, events, and scripture itself are seen here as being one.
6 sn For a similar threefold division of the OT scriptures, see the prologue to Sirach, lines 8-10, and from Qumran, the epilogue to 4QMMT, line 10.
7 tn The words “this happened” are not in the Greek text but are supplied to complete an ellipsis.
8 sn A quotation from Ps 35:19 and Ps 69:4. As a technical term law (νόμος, nomos) is usually restricted to the Pentateuch (the first five books of the OT), but here it must have a broader reference, since the quotation is from Ps 35:19 or Ps 69:4. The latter is the more likely source for the quoted words, since it is cited elsewhere in John’s Gospel (2:17 and 19:29, in both instances in contexts associated with Jesus’ suffering and death).