2 Kings 2:11

2:11 As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot ¹  pulled by fiery horses appeared. ²  They went between Elijah and Elisha, ³  and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.

Psalms 89:48

89:48 No man can live on without experiencing death,

or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. ⁴  (Selah)

John 8:51-52

8:51 I tell you the solemn truth, ⁵  if anyone obeys ⁶  my teaching, ⁷  he will never see death.” ⁸ 

8:52 Then ⁹  the Judeans ¹⁰  responded, ¹¹  “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! ¹²  Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet ¹³  you say, ‘If anyone obeys ¹⁴  my teaching, ¹⁵  he will never experience ¹⁶  death.’ ¹⁷ 

[2:11]  ¹ tn Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”

[2:11]  ² tn Heb “look, a chariot of fire and horses of fire.”

[2:11]  ³ tn Heb “and they made a division between the two of them.”

[89:48]  ⁴ tn Heb “Who [is] the man [who] can live and not see death, [who] can deliver his life from the hand of Sheol?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “No one!”

[8:51]  ⁵ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[8:51]  ⁶ tn Grk “If anyone keeps.”

[8:51]  ⁷ tn Grk “my word.”

[8:51]  ⁸ tn Grk “he will never see death forever.” The Greek negative here is emphatic.

[8:52]  ⁹ tc ‡ Important and early witnesses (Ì⁶⁶ א B C W Θ 579 it) lack the conjunction here, while other witnesses read οὖν (oun, “therefore”; Ì⁷⁵ D L Ψ 070 Ë^1,13 33 Ï lat). This conjunction occurs in John some 200 times, far more than in any other NT book. Even though the most important Johannine papyrus (Ì⁷⁵) has the conjunction, the combination of Ì⁶⁶ א B for the omission is even stronger. Further, the reading seems to be a predictable scribal emendation. In particular, οὖν is frequently used with the plural of εἶπον (eipon, “they said”) in John (in this chapter alone, note vv. 13, 39, 48, 57, and possibly 41). On balance, it is probably best to consider the shorter reading as authentic, even though “Then” is virtually required in translation for English stylistic reasons. NA²⁷ has the conjunction in brackets, indicating some doubt as to its authenticity.

[8:52]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the Jews.” See the note on this term in v. 31. Here, as in vv. 31 and 48, the phrase refers to the Jewish people in Jerusalem (“Judeans”; cf. BDAG 479 s.v. ᾿Ιουδαῖος 2.e) who had been listening to Jesus’ teaching in the temple courts (8:20) and had initially believed his claim to be the Messiah (cf. 8:31).

[8:52]  ¹¹ tn Grk “said to him.”

[8:52]  ¹² tn Grk “you have a demon.”

[8:52]  ¹³ tn “Yet” has been supplied to show the contrastive element present in the context.

[8:52]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “If anyone keeps.”

[8:52]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “my word.”

[8:52]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “will never taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).

[8:52]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “he will never taste of death forever.” The Greek negative here is emphatic.