Genesis 42:19

42:19 If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison ¹  while the rest of you go ²  and take grain back for your hungry families. ³ 

Genesis 42:33-34

42:33 “Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain ⁴  for your hungry households and go. 42:34 But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know ⁵  that you are honest men and not spies. ⁶  Then I will give your brother back to you and you may move about freely in the land.’” ⁷ 

John 7:18

7:18 The person who speaks on his own authority ⁸  desires ⁹  to receive honor ¹⁰  for himself; the one who desires ¹¹  the honor ¹²  of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, ¹³  and there is no unrighteousness in him.

John 7:2

7:2 Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles ¹⁴  was near. ¹⁵ 

Colossians 1:4

1:4 since ¹⁶  we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

[42:19]  ¹ tn Heb “bound in the house of your prison.”

[42:19]  ² tn The disjunctive clause is circumstantial-temporal.

[42:19]  ³ tn Heb “[for] the hunger of your households.”

[42:33]  ⁴ tn The word “grain” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[42:34]  ⁵ tn After the imperative, the cohortative with prefixed vav indicates purpose/result.

[42:34]  ⁶ tn Heb “that you are not spies, that you are honest men.”

[42:34]  ⁷ sn Joseph’s brothers soften the news considerably, making it sound like Simeon was a guest of Joseph (Leave one of your brothers with me) instead of being bound in prison. They do not mention the threat of death and do not at this time speak of the money in the one sack.

[7:18]  ⁸ tn Grk “who speaks from himself.”

[7:18]  ⁹ tn Or “seeks.”

[7:18]  ¹⁰ tn Or “praise”; Grk “glory.”

[7:18]  ¹¹ tn Or “seeks.”

[7:18]  ¹² tn Or “praise”; Grk “glory.”

[7:18]  ¹³ tn Or “is truthful”; Grk “is true.”

[7:2]  ¹⁴ tn Or “feast of the Tents” (the feast where people lived in tents or shelters, which was celebrated in the autumn after harvest). John’s use of σκηνοπηγία (skhnophgia) for the feast of Tabernacles constitutes the only use of this term in the New Testament.

[7:2]  ¹⁵ sn Since the present verse places these incidents at the feast of Tabernacles (a.d. 29 or 32, depending on whether one dates the crucifixion in a.d. 30 or 33) there would have been a 6-month interval during which no events are recorded. The author is obviously selective in his approach; he is not recording an exhaustive history (as he will later tell the reader in John 21:25). After healing the paralytic on the Sabbath in Jerusalem (John 5:1-47), Jesus withdrew again to Galilee because of mounting opposition. In Galilee the feeding of the 5,000 took place, which marked the end of the Galilean ministry for all practical purposes. John 7:1-9 thus marks Jesus’ final departure from Galilee.

[1:4]  ¹⁶ tn The adverbial participle ἀκούσαντες (akousante") is understood to be temporal and translated with “since.” A causal idea may also be in the apostle’s mind, but the context emphasizes temporal ideas, e.g., “from the day” (v. 6).