Matthew 25:44

25:44 Then they too will answer, ¹  ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not give you whatever you needed?’

Matthew 27:55

27:55 Many ²  women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support ³  were also there, watching from a distance.

Ezekiel 24:13

24:13 You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. ⁴ 

I tried to cleanse you, ⁵  but you are not clean.

You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness ⁶ 

until I have exhausted my anger on you.

Acts 13:5

13:5 When ⁷  they arrived ⁸  in Salamis, ⁹  they began to proclaim ¹⁰  the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. ¹¹  (Now they also had John ¹²  as their assistant.) ¹³ 

Acts 13:2

13:2 While they were serving ¹⁴  the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart ¹⁵  for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

Acts 1:18

1:18 (Now this man Judas ¹⁶  acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed, ¹⁷  and falling headfirst ¹⁸  he burst open in the middle and all his intestines ¹⁹  gushed out.

Philemon 1:13

1:13 I wanted to keep him so that he could serve me in your place ²⁰  during ²¹  my imprisonment for the sake of the gospel. ²² 

Hebrews 1:14

1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to serve those ²³  who will inherit salvation?

Hebrews 1:1

Introduction: God Has Spoken Fully and Finally in His Son

1:1 After God spoke long ago ²⁴  in various portions ²⁵  and in various ways ²⁶  to our ancestors ²⁷  through the prophets,

Hebrews 4:11

4:11 Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

¹ tn Grk “Then they will answer, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

² tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

³ tn Grk “and ministered to him.”

⁴ tn Heb “in your uncleanness (is) obscene conduct.”

⁵ tn Heb “because I cleansed you.” In this context (see especially the very next statement), the statement must refer to divine intention and purpose. Despite God’s efforts to cleanse his people, they resisted him and remained morally impure.

⁶ tn The Hebrew text adds the word “again.”

⁷ tn Grk “And when.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

⁸ tn The participle γενόμενοι (genomenoi) is taken temporally.

⁹ sn Salamis was a city on the southeastern coast of the island of Cyprus. This was a commercial center and a center of Judaism.

¹⁰ tn The imperfect verb κατήγγελλον (kathngellon) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.

¹¹ sn See the note on synagogue in 6:9.

¹² sn John refers here to John Mark (see Acts 12:25).

¹³ tn The word ὑπηρέτης (Juphreth") usually has the meaning “servant,” but it is doubtful John Mark fulfilled that capacity for Barnabas and Saul. He was more likely an apprentice or assistant to them.

¹⁴ tn This term is frequently used in the LXX of the service performed by priests and Levites in the tabernacle (Exod 28:35, 43; 29:30; 30:20; 35:19; 39:26; Num 1:50; 3:6, 31) and the temple (2 Chr 31:2; 35:3; Joel 1:9, 13; 2:17, and many more examples). According to BDAG 591 s.v. λειτουργέω 1.b it is used “of other expression of religious devotion.” Since the previous verse described the prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch, it is probable that the term here describes two of them (Barnabas and Saul) as they were serving in that capacity. Since they were not in Jerusalem where the temple was located, general religious service is referred to here.

¹⁵ tn Or “Appoint.”

¹⁶ tn The referent of “this man” (Judas) was specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁷ tn Traditionally, “with the reward of his wickedness.”

¹⁸ tn Traditionally, “falling headlong.”

¹⁹ tn Or “all his bowels.”

²⁰ tn This is one of the clearest texts in the NT in which ὑπέρ is used for substitution. Cf. ExSyn 387.

²¹ tn Grk “in my imprisonment.” Paul seems to expect release from his imprisonment after some time (cf. v. 22), but in the meantime the assistance that Onesimus could provide would be valuable to the apostle.

²² tn Grk “in the chains of the gospel.” On the translation “imprisonment for the sake of the gospel,” cf. BDAG 219 s.v. δεσμός 1.a where it says: “Oft. simply in ref. to the locale where bonds or fetters are worn imprisonment, prison (Diod. S. 14, 103, 3; Lucian, Tox. 29; Jos., Ant. 13, 294; 302, Vi. 241; Just., A I, 67, 6 al.) Phil 1:7, 13f, 17; Col 4:18; Phlm 10. μέχρι δεσμῶν 2 Ti 2:9. ἐν τοῖς δ. τοῦ εὐαγγελίου in imprisonment for the gospel Phlm 13; cf. ISm 11:1; Pol 1:1.”

²³ tn Grk “sent for service for the sake of those.”

²⁴ tn Or “spoke formerly.”

²⁵ tn Or “parts.” The idea is that God’s previous revelation came in many parts and was therefore fragmentary or partial (L&N 63.19), in comparison with the final and complete revelation contained in God’s Son. However, some interpret πολυμερῶς (polumerw") in Heb 1:1 to mean “on many different occasions” and would thus translate “many times” (L&N 67.11). This is the option followed by the NIV: “at many times and in various ways.” Finally, this word is also understood to refer to the different manners in which something may be done, and would then be translated “in many different ways” (L&N 89.81). In this last case, the two words πολυμερῶς and πολυτρόπως (polutropw") mutually reinforce one another (“in many and various ways,” NRSV).

²⁶ tn These two phrases are emphasized in Greek by being placed at the beginning of the sentence and by alliteration.

²⁷ tn Grk “to the fathers.”