John 6:38

6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

John 14:31

14:31 but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know ¹  that I love the Father. ²  Get up, let us go from here.” ³ 

John 15:10

15:10 If you obey ⁴  my commandments, you will remain ⁵  in my love, just as I have obeyed ⁶  my Father’s commandments and remain ⁷  in his love.

Psalms 40:6-8

40:6 Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. ⁸ 

You make that quite clear to me! ⁹ 

You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.

40:7 Then I say,

“Look! I come!

What is written in the scroll pertains to me. ¹⁰ 

40:8 I want to do what pleases you, ¹¹  my God.

Your law dominates my thoughts.” ¹² 

Hebrews 5:6-9

5:6 as also in another place God ¹³  says, “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.” ¹⁴  5:7 During his earthly life ¹⁵  Christ ¹⁶  offered ¹⁷  both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion. 5:8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered. ¹⁸  5:9 And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

Hebrews 10:6-10

10:6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am: ¹⁹  I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’” ²⁰ 

10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” ²¹  (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” ²²  He does away with ²³  the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will ²⁴  we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

[14:31]  ¹ tn Or “may learn.”

[14:31]  ² tn Grk “But so that the world may know that I love the Father, and just as the Father commanded me, thus I do.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to conform to contemporary English style.

[14:31]  ³ sn Some have understood Jesus’ statement Get up, let us go from here to mean that at this point Jesus and the disciples got up and left the room where the meal was served and began the journey to the garden of Gethsemane. If so, the rest of the Farewell Discourse took place en route. Others have pointed to this statement as one of the “seams” in the discourse, indicating that the author used preexisting sources. Both explanations are possible, but not really necessary. Jesus could simply have stood up at this point (the disciples may or may not have stood with him) to finish the discourse before finally departing (in 18:1). In any case it may be argued that Jesus refers not to a literal departure at this point, but to preparing to meet the enemy who is on the way already in the person of Judas and the soldiers with him.

[15:10]  ⁴ tn Or “keep.”

[15:10]  ⁵ tn Or “reside.”

[15:10]  ⁶ tn Or “kept.”

[15:10]  ⁷ tn Or “reside.”

[40:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “sacrifice and offering you do not desire.” The statement is exaggerated for the sake of emphasis (see Ps 51:16 as well). God is pleased with sacrifices, but his first priority is obedience and loyalty (see 1 Sam 15:22). Sacrifices and offerings apart from genuine allegiance are meaningless (see Isa 1:11-20).

[40:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “ears you hollowed out for me.” The meaning of this odd expression is debated (this is the only collocation of “hollowed out” and “ears” in the OT). It may have been an idiomatic expression referring to making a point clear to a listener. The LXX has “but a body you have prepared for me,” a reading which is followed in Heb 10:5.

[40:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in the roll of the scroll it is written concerning me.” Apparently the psalmist refers to the law of God (see v. 8), which contains the commandments God desires him to obey. If this is a distinctly royal psalm, then the psalmist/king may be referring specifically to the regulations of kingship prescribed in Deut 17:14-20. See P. C. Craigie, Psalms 1-50 (WBC), 315.

[40:8]  ¹¹ tn Or “your will.”

[40:8]  ¹² tn Heb “your law [is] in the midst of my inner parts.” The “inner parts” are viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s thought life and moral decision making.

[5:6]  ¹³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:6]  ¹⁴ sn A quotation from Ps 110:4.

[5:7]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “in the days of his flesh.”

[5:7]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Christ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:7]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “who…having offered,” continuing the description of Christ from Heb 5:5-6.

[5:8]  ¹⁸ sn There is a wordplay in the Greek text between the verbs “learned” (ἔμαθεν, emaqen) and “suffered” (ἔπαθεν, epaqen).

[10:7]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).

[10:7]  ²⁰ sn A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”

[10:8]  ²¹ sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.

[10:9]  ²² tc The majority of mss, especially the later ones (א² 0278^vid 1739 Ï lat), have ὁ θεός (Jo qeo", “God”) at this point, while most of the earliest and best witnesses lack such an explicit addressee (so Ì⁴⁶ א* A C D K P Ψ 33 1175 1881 2464 al). The longer reading is a palpable corruption, apparently motivated in part by the wording of Ps 40:8 (39:9 LXX) and by the word order of this same verse as quoted in Heb 10:7.

[10:9]  ²³ tn Or “abolishes.”

[10:10]  ²⁴ tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.