13:10 Then 1 the disciples came to him and said, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” 13:11 He replied, 2 “You have been given 3 the opportunity to know 4 the secrets 5 of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.
1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
2 tn Grk “And answering, he said to them.” This construction is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
3 tn This is an example of a “divine passive,” with God understood to be the source of the revelation (see ExSyn 437-38).
4 tn Grk “to you it has been given to know.” The dative pronoun occurs first, in emphatic position in the Greek text, although this position is awkward in contemporary English.
5 tn Grk “the mysteries.”