Genesis 43:31

43:31 Then he washed his face and came out. With composure he said, ¹  “Set out the food.”

Genesis 45:1

The Reconciliation of the Brothers

45:1 Joseph was no longer able to control himself before all his attendants, ²  so he cried out, “Make everyone go out from my presence!” No one remained ³  with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

Psalms 30:5

30:5 For his anger lasts only a brief moment,

and his good favor restores one’s life. ⁴ 

One may experience sorrow during the night,

but joy arrives in the morning. ⁵ 

Mark 5:38-39

5:38 They came to the house of the synagogue ruler where ⁶  he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly. ⁷  5:39 When he entered he said to them, “Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”

John 20:13-15

20:13 They said ⁸  to her, “Woman, ⁹  why are you weeping?” Mary replied, ¹⁰  “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!” 20:14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, ¹¹  but she did not know that it was Jesus.

20:15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” Because she ¹²  thought he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him.”

John 20:1

The Resurrection

20:1 Now very early on the first day of the week, ¹³  while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene ¹⁴  came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been moved away from the entrance. ¹⁵ 

John 4:14

4:14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, ¹⁶  but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain ¹⁷  of water springing up ¹⁸  to eternal life.”

[43:31]  ¹ tn Heb “and he controlled himself and said.”

[45:1]  ² tn Heb “all the ones standing beside him.”

[45:1]  ³ tn Heb “stood.”

[30:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “for [there is] a moment in his anger, [but] life in his favor.” Because of the parallelism with “moment,” some understand חַיִּים (khayyim) in a quantitative sense: “lifetime” (cf. NIV, NRSV). However, the immediate context, which emphasizes deliverance from death (see v. 3), suggests that חַיִּים has a qualitative sense: “physical life” or even “prosperous life” (cf. NEB “in his favour there is life”).

[30:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the evening weeping comes to lodge, but at morning a shout of joy.” “Weeping” is personified here as a traveler who lodges with one temporarily.

[5:38]  ⁶ tn Grk “and,” though such paratactic structure is rather awkward in English.

[5:38]  ⁷ sn This group probably includes outside or even professional mourners, not just family, because a large group seems to be present.

[20:13]  ⁸ tn The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here.

[20:13]  ⁹ sn Woman was a polite form of address (see BDAG 208-9 s.v. γυνή 1), similar to “Madam” or “Ma’am” used in English in different regions. This occurs again in v. 15.

[20:13]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “She said to them.”

[20:14]  ¹¹ tn The word “there” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[20:15]  ¹² tn Grk “that one” (referring to Mary Magdalene).

[20:1]  ¹³ sn The first day of the week would be early Sunday morning. The Sabbath (and in this year the Passover) would have lasted from 6 p.m. Friday until 6 p.m. Saturday. Sunday would thus mark the first day of the following week.

[20:1]  ¹⁴ sn John does not mention that Mary Magdalene was accompanied by any of the other women who had been among Jesus’ followers. The synoptic accounts all mention other women who accompanied her (although Mary Magdalene is always mentioned first). Why John does not mention the other women is not clear, but Mary probably becomes the focus of the author’s attention because it was she who came and found Peter and the beloved disciple and informed them of the empty tomb (20:2). Mary’s use of the plural in v. 2 indicates there were others present, in indirect agreement with the synoptic accounts.

[20:1]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “from the tomb.”

[4:14]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “will never be thirsty forever.” The possibility of a later thirst is emphatically denied.

[4:14]  ¹⁷ tn Or “well.” “Fountain” is used as the translation for πηγή (phgh) here since the idea is that of an artesian well that flows freely, but the term “artesian well” is not common in contemporary English.

[4:14]  ¹⁸ tn The verb ἁλλομένου (Jallomenou) is used of quick movement (like jumping) on the part of living beings. This is the only instance of its being applied to the action of water. However, in the LXX it is used to describe the “Spirit of God” as it falls on Samson and Saul. See Judg 14:6, 19; 15:14; 1 Kgdms 10:2, 10 LXX (= 1 Sam 10:6, 10 ET); and Isa 35:6 (note context).