Psalms 77:11

77:11 I will remember the works of the Lord.

Yes, I will remember the amazing things you did long ago! ¹ 

Psalms 103:2

103:2 Praise the Lord, O my soul!

Do not forget all his kind deeds! ² 

Deuteronomy 7:18-19

7:18 you must not fear them. You must carefully recall ³  what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt, 7:19 the great judgments ⁴  you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power ⁵  by which he ⁶  brought you out – thus the Lord your God will do to all the people you fear.

Deuteronomy 8:2

8:2 Remember the whole way by which he ⁷  has brought you these forty years through the desert ⁸  so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 32:7

32:7 Remember the ancient days;

bear in mind ⁹  the years of past generations. ¹⁰ 

Ask your father and he will inform you,

your elders, and they will tell you.

Isaiah 43:18-19

43:18 “Don’t remember these earlier events; ¹¹ 

don’t recall these former events.

43:19 “Look, I am about to do something new.

Now it begins to happen! ¹²  Do you not recognize ¹³  it?

Yes, I will make a road in the desert

and paths ¹⁴  in the wilderness.

Luke 22:19

22:19 Then ¹⁵  he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body ¹⁶  which is given for you. ¹⁷  Do this in remembrance of me.”

Luke 22:1

Judas’ Decision to Betray Jesus

22:1 Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, ¹⁸  which is called the Passover, was approaching.

Colossians 1:24-26

1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ. 1:25 I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship ¹⁹  from God – given to me for you – in order to complete ²⁰  the word of God, 1:26 that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints.

¹ tn Heb “yes, I will remember from old your wonders.”

² tn Or “his benefits” (see 2 Chr 32:25, where the noun is also used of kind deeds performed by the Lord).

³ tn Heb “recalling, you must recall.” The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute before the finite verb for emphasis. Cf. KJV, ASV “shalt well remember.”

⁴ tn Heb “testings” (so NAB), a reference to the plagues. See note at 4:34.

⁵ tn Heb “the strong hand and outstretched arm.” See 4:34.

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.

⁹ tc The Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read 2nd person masculine singular whereas the MT has 2nd person masculine plural. The former is preferred, the latter perhaps being a misreading (בִּינוּ [binu] for בִּינָה [binah]). Both the preceding (“remember”) and following (“ask”) imperatives are singular forms in the Hebrew text.

¹⁰ tn Heb “generation and generation.” The repetition of the singular noun here singles out each of the successive past generations. See IBHS 116 §7.2.3b.

¹¹ tn Heb “the former things” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “forget all that.”

¹² tn Heb “sprouts up”; NASB “will spring forth.”

¹³ tn Or “know” (KJV, ASV); NASB “be aware of”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “perceive.”

¹⁴ tn The Hebrew texts has “streams,” probably under the influence of v. 20. The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has נתיבות (“paths”).

¹⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

¹⁶ tc Some important Western mss (D it) lack the words from this point to the end of v. 20. However, the authenticity of these verses is very likely. The inclusion of the second cup is the harder reading, since it differs from Matt 26:26-29 and Mark 14:22-25, and it has much better ms support. It is thus easier to explain the shorter reading as a scribal accident or misunderstanding. Further discussion of this complicated problem (the most difficult in Luke) can be found in TCGNT 148-50.

¹⁷ sn The language of the phrase given for you alludes to Christ’s death in our place. It is a powerful substitutionary image of what he did for us.

¹⁸ sn The Feast of Unleavened Bread was a week long celebration that followed the day of Passover, so one name was used for both feasts (Exod 12:1-20; 23:15; 34:18; Deut 16:1-8).

¹⁹ tn BDAG 697 s.v. οἰκονομία 1.b renders the term here as “divine office.”

²⁰ tn See BDAG 828 s.v. πληρόω 3. The idea here seems to be that the apostle wants to “complete the word of God” in that he wants to preach it to every person in the known world (cf. Rom 15:19). See P. T. O’Brien, Colossians, Philemon (WBC), 82.