Exodus 15:20

15:20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a hand-drum in her hand, and all the women went out after her with hand-drums and with dances. ¹ 

Jude 1:4

1:4 For certain men ²  have secretly slipped in among you ³  – men who long ago ⁴  were marked out ⁵  for the condemnation I am about to describe ⁶  – ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil ⁷  and who deny our only Master ⁸  and Lord, ⁹  Jesus Christ.

Luke 1:41-45

1:41 When ¹⁰  Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped ¹¹  in her ¹²  womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. ¹³  1:42 She ¹⁴  exclaimed with a loud voice, ¹⁵  “Blessed are you among women, ¹⁶  and blessed is the child ¹⁷  in your womb! 1:43 And who am I ¹⁸  that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me? 1:44 For the instant ¹⁹  the sound of your greeting reached my ears, ²⁰  the baby in my womb leaped for joy. ²¹  1:45 And blessed ²²  is she who believed that ²³  what was spoken to her by ²⁴  the Lord would be fulfilled.” ²⁵ 

Luke 2:36

The Testimony of Anna

2:36 There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, ²⁶  having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

Acts 21:9

21:9 (He had four unmarried ²⁷  daughters who prophesied.) ²⁸ 

[15:20]  ¹ sn See J. N. Easton, “Dancing in the Old Testament,” ExpTim 86 (1975): 136-40.

[1:4]  ² tn Grk “people.” However, if Jude is indeed arguing that Peter’s prophecy about false teachers has come true, these are most likely men in the original historical and cultural setting. See discussion of this point in the note on the phrase “these men” in 2 Pet 2:12.

[1:4]  ³ tn “Among you” is not in the Greek text, but is obviously implied.

[1:4]  ⁴ tn Or “in the past.” The adverb πάλαι (palai) can refer to either, though the meaning “long ago” is more common.

[1:4]  ⁵ tn Grk “written about.”

[1:4]  ⁶ tn Grk “for this condemnation.” τοῦτο (touto) is almost surely a kataphoric demonstrative pronoun, pointing to what follows in vv. 5-18. Otherwise, the condemnation is only implied (in v. 3b) or is merely a statement of their sinfulness (“ungodly” in v. 4b), not a judgment of it.

[1:4]  ⁷ tn Grk “debauchery.” This is the same word Peter uses to predict what the false teachers will be like (2 Pet 2:2, 7, 18).

[1:4]  ⁸ tc Most later witnesses (P Ψ Ï sy) have θεόν (qeon, “God”) after δεσπότην (despothn, “master”), which appears to be a motivated reading in that it explicitly links “Master” to “God” in keeping with the normal NT pattern (see Luke 2:29; Acts 4:24; 2 Tim 2:21; Rev 6:10). In patristic Greek, δεσπότης (despoth") was used especially of God (cf. BDAG 220 s.v. 1.b.). The earlier and better witnesses (Ì^72,78 א A B C 0251 33 81 323 1241 1739 al co) lack θεόν; the shorter reading is thus preferred on both internal and external grounds.

[1:4]  ⁹ tn The terms “Master and Lord” both refer to the same person. The construction in Greek is known as the Granville Sharp rule, named after the English philanthropist-linguist who first clearly articulated the rule in 1798. Sharp pointed out that in the construction article-noun-καί-noun (where καί [kai] = “and”), when two nouns are singular, personal, and common (i.e., not proper names), they always had the same referent. Illustrations such as “the friend and brother,” “the God and Father,” etc. abound in the NT to prove Sharp’s point. For more discussion see ExSyn 270-78. See also Titus 2:13 and 2 Pet 1:1

[1:41]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “And it happened that.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here either.

[1:41]  ¹¹ sn When the baby leaped John gave his first testimony about Jesus, a fulfillment of 1:15.

[1:41]  ¹² tn The antecedent of “her” is Elizabeth.

[1:41]  ¹³ sn The passage makes clear that Elizabeth spoke her commentary with prophetic enablement, filled with the Holy Spirit.

[1:42]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “and she.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was begun here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[1:42]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “and she exclaimed with a great cry and said.” The verb εἶπεν (eipen, “said”) has not been included in the translation since it is redundant in contemporary English.

[1:42]  ¹⁶ sn The commendation Blessed are you among women means that Mary has a unique privilege to be the mother of the promised one of God.

[1:42]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “fruit,” which is figurative here for the child she would give birth to.

[1:43]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “From where this to me?” The translation suggests the note of humility and surprise that Elizabeth feels in being a part of these events. The ἵνα (Jina) clause which follows explains what “this” is. A literal translation would read “From where this to me, that is, that the mother of my Lord comes to visit me?”

[1:44]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “for behold.”

[1:44]  ²⁰ tn Grk “when the sound of your greeting [reached] my ears.”

[1:44]  ²¹ sn On the statement the baby in my womb leaped for joy see both 1:14 and 1:47. This notes a fulfillment of God’s promised word.

[1:45]  ²² sn Again the note of being blessed makes the key point of the passage about believing God.

[1:45]  ²³ tn This ὅτι (Joti) clause, technically indirect discourse after πιστεύω (pisteuw), explains the content of the faith, a belief in God’s promise coming to pass.

[1:45]  ²⁴ tn That is, “what was said to her (by the angel) at the Lord’s command” (BDAG 756 s.v. παρά A.2).

[1:45]  ²⁵ tn Grk “that there would be a fulfillment of what was said to her from the Lord.”

[2:36]  ²⁶ tn Her age is emphasized by the Greek phrase here, “she was very old in her many days.”

[21:9]  ²⁷ tn Grk “virgin.” While the term παρθένος (parqeno") can refer to a woman who has never had sexual relations, the emphasis in this context seems to be on the fact that Philip’s daughters were not married (L&N 9.39).

[21:9]  ²⁸ sn This is best taken as a parenthetical note by the author. Luke again noted women who were gifted in the early church (see Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 3.31; 3.39).