Discovery BoxMatthew 13:52
Context13:52 Then he said to them, “Therefore every expert in the law 1 who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his treasure what is new and old.”
Mark 4:33
Context4:33 So 2 with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.
Luke 12:42
Context12:42 The Lord replied, 3 “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, 4 whom the master puts in charge of his household servants, 5 to give them their allowance of food at the proper time?
John 21:15-17
Context21:15 Then when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, 6 do you love me more than these do?” 7 He replied, 8 “Yes, Lord, you know I love you.” 9 Jesus 10 told him, “Feed my lambs.” 21:16 Jesus 11 said 12 a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He replied, 13 “Yes, Lord, you know I love you.” Jesus 14 told him, “Shepherd my sheep.” 21:17 Jesus 15 said 16 a third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was distressed 17 that Jesus 18 asked 19 him a third time, “Do you love me?” and said, 20 “Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you.” Jesus 21 replied, 22 “Feed my sheep.
Acts 20:27
Context20:27 For I did not hold back from 23 announcing 24 to you the whole purpose 25 of God.
Acts 20:1
Context20:1 After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging 26 them and saying farewell, 27 he left to go to Macedonia. 28
Colossians 2:6
Context2:6 Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, 29 continue to live your lives 30 in him,
Colossians 3:1-2
Context3:1 Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 3:2 Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,
Colossians 3:2
Context3:2 Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,
Colossians 4:2
Context4:2 Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.
Colossians 4:1
Context4:1 Masters, treat your slaves with justice and fairness, because you know that you also have a master in heaven.
Colossians 1:14
Context1:14 in whom we have redemption, 31 the forgiveness of sins.
Hebrews 5:11-14
Context5:11 On this topic we have much to say 32 and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish 33 in hearing. 5:12 For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, 34 you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. 35 You have gone back to needing 36 milk, not 37 solid food. 5:13 For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant. 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.
[13:52] 1 tn Or “every scribe.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4. It is possible that the term translated “expert in the law” (traditionally, “scribe”) here is a self-description used by the author, Matthew, to represent his role in conveying the traditions about Jesus to his intended audience. See David E. Orton, The Understanding Scribe [JSNTSup].
[4:33] 2 tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of previous action(s) in the narrative.
[12:42] 3 tn Grk “And the Lord said.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
[12:42] 4 tn Or “administrator,” “steward” (L&N 37.39).
[12:42] 5 tn This term, θεραπεία (qerapeia), describes the group of servants working in a particular household (L&N 46.6).
[21:15] 6 tc The majority of
[21:15] 7 tn To whom (or what) does “these” (τούτων, toutwn) refer? Three possibilities are suggested: (1) τούτων should be understood as neuter, “these things,” referring to the boats, nets, and fishing gear nearby. In light of Peter’s statement in 21:3, “I am going fishing,” some have understood Peter to have renounced his commission in light of his denials of Jesus. Jesus, as he restores Peter and forgives him for his denials, is asking Peter if he really loves his previous vocation more than he loves Jesus. Three things may be said in evaluation of this view: (a) it is not at all necessary to understand Peter’s statement in 21:3 as a renouncement of his discipleship, as this view of the meaning of τούτων would imply; (b) it would probably be more likely that the verb would be repeated in such a construction (see 7:31 for an example where the verb is repeated); and (c) as R. E. Brown has observed (John [AB], 2:1103) by Johannine standards the choice being offered to Peter between material things and the risen Jesus would seem rather ridiculous, especially after the disciples had realized whom it was they were dealing with (the Lord, see v. 12). (2) τούτων refers to the other disciples, meaning “Do you love me more than you love these other disciples?” The same objection mentioned as (c) under (1) would apply here: Could the author, in light of the realization of who Jesus is which has come to the disciples after the resurrection, and which he has just mentioned in 21:12, seriously present Peter as being offered a choice between the other disciples and the risen Jesus? This leaves option (3), that τούτων refers to the other disciples, meaning “Do you love me more than these other disciples do?” It seems likely that there is some irony here: Peter had boasted in 13:37, “I will lay down my life for you,” and the synoptics present Peter as boasting even more explicitly of his loyalty to Jesus (“Even if they all fall away, I will not,” Matt 26:33; Mark 14:29). Thus the semantic force of what Jesus asks Peter here amounts to something like “Now, after you have denied me three times, as I told you you would, can you still affirm that you love me more than these other disciples do?” The addition of the auxiliary verb “do” in the translation is used to suggest to the English reader the third interpretation, which is the preferred one.
[21:15] 8 tn Grk “He said to him.”
[21:15] 9 tn Is there a significant difference in meaning between the two words for love used in the passage, ἀγαπάω and φιλέω (agapaw and filew)? Aside from Origen, who saw a distinction in the meaning of the two words, most of the Greek Fathers like Chrysostom and Cyril of Alexandria, saw no real difference of meaning. Neither did Augustine nor the translators of the Itala (Old Latin). This was also the view of the Reformation Greek scholars Erasmus and Grotius. The suggestion that a distinction in meaning should be seen comes primarily from a number of British scholars of the 19th century, especially Trench, Westcott, and Plummer. It has been picked up by others such as Spicq, Lenski, and Hendriksen. But most modern scholars decline to see a real difference in the meaning of the two words in this context, among them Bernard, Moffatt, Bonsirven, Bultmann, Barrett, Brown, Morris, Haenchen, and Beasley-Murray. There are three significant reasons for seeing no real difference in the meaning of ἀγαπάω and φιλέω in these verses: (1) the author has a habit of introducing slight stylistic variations in repeated material without any significant difference in meaning (compare, for example, 3:3 with 3:5, and 7:34 with 13:33). An examination of the uses of ἀγαπάω and φιλέω in the Fourth Gospel seems to indicate a general interchangeability between the two. Both terms are used of God’s love for man (3:16, 16:27); of the Father’s love for the Son (3:35, 5:20); of Jesus’ love for men (11:5, 11:3); of the love of men for men (13:34, 15:19); and of the love of men for Jesus (8:42, 16:27). (2) If (as seems probable) the original conversation took place in Aramaic (or possibly Hebrew), there would not have been any difference expressed because both Aramaic and Hebrew have only one basic word for love. In the LXX both ἀγαπάω and φιλέω are used to translate the same Hebrew word for love, although ἀγαπάω is more frequent. It is significant that in the Syriac version of the NT only one verb is used to translate vv. 15-17 (Syriac is very similar linguistically to Palestinian Aramaic). (3) Peter’s answers to the questions asked with ἀγαπάω are ‘yes’ even though he answers using the verb φιλέω. If he is being asked to love Jesus on a higher or more spiritual level his answers give no indication of this, and one would be forced to say (in order to maintain a consistent distinction between the two verbs) that Jesus finally concedes defeat and accepts only the lower form of love which is all that Peter is capable of offering. Thus it seems best to regard the interchange between ἀγαπάω and φιλέω in these verses as a minor stylistic variation of the author, consistent with his use of minor variations in repeated material elsewhere, and not indicative of any real difference in meaning. Thus no attempt has been made to distinguish between the two Greek words in the translation.
[21:15] 10 tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[21:16] 11 tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[21:16] 12 tn Grk “said again.” The word “again” (when used in connection with the phrase “a second time”) is redundant and has not been translated.
[21:16] 13 tn Grk “He said to him.”
[21:16] 14 tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[21:17] 15 tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[21:17] 16 tn Grk “said to him.” The words “to him” are clear from the context and slightly redundant in English.
[21:17] 18 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[21:17] 20 tn Grk “and said to him.” The words “to him” are clear from the context and slightly redundant in English.
[21:17] 21 tc ‡ Most witnesses, especially later ones (A Θ Ψ Ë13 Ï), read ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς (Jo Ihsou", “Jesus”) here, while B C have ᾿Ιησοῦς without the article and א D W Ë1 33 565 al lat lack both. Because of the rapid verbal exchange in this pericope, “Jesus” is virtually required for clarity, providing a temptation to scribes to add the name. Further, the name normally occurs with the article. Although it is possible that B C accidentally omitted the article with the name, it is just as likely that they added the simple name to the text for clarity’s sake, while other witnesses added the article as well. The omission of ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς thus seems most likely to be authentic. NA27 includes the words in brackets, indicating some doubts as to their authenticity.
[21:17] 22 tn Grk “Jesus said to him.”
[20:27] 23 tn Or “did not avoid.” BDAG 1041 s.v. ὑποστέλλω 2.b has “shrink from, avoid implying fear…οὐ γὰρ ὑπεστειλάμην τοῦ μὴ ἀναγγεῖλαι I did not shrink from proclaiming Ac 20:27”; L&N 13.160 has “to hold oneself back from doing something, with the implication of some fearful concern – ‘to hold back from, to shrink from, to avoid’…‘for I have not held back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God’ Ac 20:27.”
[20:27] 24 tn Or “proclaiming,” “declaring.”
[20:1] 27 tn Or “and taking leave of them.”
[20:1] 28 sn Macedonia was the Roman province of Macedonia in Greece.
[2:6] 29 tn Though the verb παρελάβετε (parelabete) does not often take a double accusative, here it seems to do so. Both τὸν Χριστὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν (ton Criston Ihsoun) and τὸν κύριον (ton kurion) are equally definite insofar as they both have an article, but both the word order and the use of “Christ Jesus” as a proper name suggest that it is the object (cf. Rom 10:9, 10). Thus Paul is affirming that the tradition that was delivered to the Colossians by Epaphras was Christ-centered and focused on him as Lord.
[2:6] 30 tn The present imperative περιπατεῖτε (peripateite) implies, in this context, a continuation of something already begun. This is evidenced by the fact that Paul has already referred to their faith as “orderly” and “firm” (2:5), despite the struggles of some of them with this deceptive heresy (cf. 2:16-23). The verb is used literally to refer to a person “walking” and is thus used metaphorically (i.e., ethically) to refer to the way a person lives his or her life.
[1:14] 31 tc διὰ τοῦ αἵματος αὐτοῦ (dia tou {aimato" autou, “through his blood”) is read at this juncture by several minuscule
[5:11] 32 tn Grk “concerning which the message for us is great.”
[5:12] 34 tn Grk “because of the time.”
[5:12] 35 tn Grk “the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God.”
[5:12] 36 tn Grk “you have come to have a need for.”
[5:12] 37 tc ‡ Most texts, including some early and important ones (א2 A B* D Ψ 0122 0278 1881 Ï sy Cl), have καί (kai, “and”) immediately preceding οὐ (ou, “not”), but other equally significant witnesses (Ì46 א* B2 C 33 81 1739 lat Or Did) lack the conjunction. As it was a natural tendency for scribes to add a coordinating conjunction, the καί appears to be a motivated reading. On balance, it is probably best to regard the shorter reading as authentic. NA27 has καί in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity.
