7:7 “Ask 1 and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door 2 will be opened for you.
15:29 When he left there, Jesus went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up a mountain, where he sat down.
24:42 “Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day 6 your Lord will come.
1 sn The three present imperatives in this verse (Ask…seek…knock) are probably intended to call for a repeated or continual approach before God.
2 tn Grk “it”; the referent (a door) is implied by the context and has been specified in the translation here and in v. 8 for clarity.
3 sn The allusion to Sodom, the most wicked of OT cities from Gen 19:1-29, shows that to reject the current message is even more serious, and will result in more severe punishment, than the worst sins of the old era. The phrase region of Sodom is in emphatic position in the Greek text.
5 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
7 tn Grk “they fell down on their faces.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”
9 tc Most later
11 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
12 tn Grk “and ministered to him.”