12:13 Then 3 someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell 4 my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
1 sn In the various lists of the twelve, Simon (that is, Peter) is always mentioned first (Matt 10:1-4; Mark 3:16-19; Acts 1:13) and the first four are always the same, though not in the same order after Peter.
2 sn Bartholomew (meaning “son of Tolmai” in Aramaic) could be another name for Nathanael mentioned in John 1:45.
3 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
4 sn Tell my brother. In 1st century Jewish culture, a figure like a rabbi was often asked to mediate disputes, except that here mediation was not requested, but representation.