1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, 1 she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
23:37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 2 you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! 3 How often I have longed 4 to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but 5 you would have none of it! 6
1 tn The connotation of the Greek is “before they came together in marital and domestic union” (so BDAG 970 s.v. συνέρχομαι 3).
2 sn The double use of the city’s name betrays intense emotion.
3 tn Although the opening address (“Jerusalem, Jerusalem”) is direct (second person), the remainder of this sentence in the Greek text is third person (“who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her”). The following sentences then revert to second person (“your… you”), so to keep all this consistent in English, the third person pronouns in the present verse were translated as second person (“you who kill… sent to you”).
4 sn How often I have longed to gather your children. Jesus, like a lamenting prophet, speaks for God here, who longed to care tenderly for Israel and protect her.
5 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
6 tn Grk “you were not willing.”
3 tn Grk “answering, he said to them.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (ajpokriqei") is redundant in English and has not been translated.
4 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
5 sn With the statement not one stone will be left on another Jesus predicted the total destruction of the temple, something that did occur in
6 tn Grk “not one stone will be left here on another which will not be thrown down.”
4 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
5 tn Grk “produce” (“the produce of the vine” is a figurative expression for wine).