Psalms 119:35

119:35 Guide me ¹  in the path of your commands,

for I delight to walk in it. ² 

John 14:6

14:6 Jesus replied, ³  “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. ⁴  No one comes to the Father except through me.

Acts 9:2

9:2 and requested letters from him to the synagogues ⁵  in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, ⁶  either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners ⁷  to Jerusalem. ⁸ 

Acts 13:10

13:10 and said, “You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, ⁹  you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness – will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? ¹⁰ 

Hebrews 10:20

10:20 by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us ¹¹  through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, ¹² 

¹ tn Or “make me walk.”

² tn Heb “for in it I delight.”

³ tn Grk “Jesus said to him.”

⁴ tn Or “I am the way, even the truth and the life.”

⁵ sn See the note on synagogue in 6:9.

⁶ sn The expression “the way” in ancient religious literature refers at times to “the whole way of life fr. a moral and spiritual viewpoint” (BDAG 692 s.v. ὁδός 3.c), and it has been so used of Christianity and its teachings in the book of Acts (see also 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:14, 22). It is a variation of Judaism’s idea of two ways, the true and the false, where “the Way” is the true one (1 En. 91:18; 2 En. 30:15).

⁷ tn Grk “bring them bound”; the translation “bring someone as prisoner” for δεδεμένον ἄγειν τινά (dedemenon agein tina) is given by BDAG 221 s.v. δέω 1.b.

⁸ sn From Damascus to Jerusalem was a six-day journey. Christianity had now expanded into Syria.

⁷ tn Or “unscrupulousness.”

⁸ sn “You who…paths of the Lord?” This rebuke is like ones from the OT prophets: Jer 5:27; Gen 32:11; Prov 10:7; Hos 14:9. Five separate remarks indicate the magician’s failings. The closing rhetorical question of v. 10 (“will you not stop…?”) shows how opposed he is to the way of God.

⁹ tn Grk “that he inaugurated for us as a fresh and living way,” referring to the entrance mentioned in v. 19.

¹⁰ sn Through his flesh. In a bold shift the writer changes from a spatial phrase (Christ opened the way through the curtain into the inner sanctuary) to an instrumental phrase (he did this through [by means of] his flesh in his sacrifice of himself), associating the two in an allusion to the splitting of the curtain in the temple from top to bottom (Matt 27:51; Mark 15:38; Luke 23:45). Just as the curtain was split, so Christ’s body was broken for us, to give us access into God’s presence.