Psalms 109:4

109:4 They repay my love with accusations, ¹ 

but I continue to pray. ² 

Luke 17:15-18

17:15 Then one of them, when he saw he was healed, turned back, praising ³  God with a loud voice. 17:16 He ⁴  fell with his face to the ground ⁵  at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. ⁶  (Now ⁷  he was a Samaritan.) ⁸  17:17 Then ⁹  Jesus said, ¹⁰  “Were ¹¹  not ten cleansed? Where are the other ¹²  nine? 17:18 Was no one found to turn back and give praise to God except this foreigner?” ¹³ 

John 10:32

10:32 Jesus said to them, ¹⁴  “I have shown you many good deeds ¹⁵  from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”

¹ tn Heb “in place of my love they oppose me.”

² tn Heb “and I, prayer.”

³ tn Grk “glorifying God.”

⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

⁵ tn Grk “he fell on his face” (an idiom for complete prostration).

⁶ sn And thanked him. This action recognized God’s healing work through Jesus.

⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the introduction of a parenthetical comment.

⁸ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author. The comment that the man was a Samaritan means that to most Jews of Jesus’ day he would have been despised as a half-breed and a heretic. The note adds a touch of irony to the account (v. 18).

⁹ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

¹⁰ tn Grk “Jesus answering said”; this is redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified in the translation.

¹¹ tn The Greek construction used here (οὐχί, ouci) expects a positive reply.

¹² tn The word “other” is implied in the context.

¹³ sn Jesus’ point in calling the man a foreigner is that none of the other nine, who were presumably Israelites, responded with gratitude. Only the “outsiders” were listening and responding.

¹⁴ tn Grk “Jesus answered them.”

¹⁵ tn Or “good works.”