Matthew 12:50

12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is ¹  my brother and sister and mother.”

Mark 10:30

10:30 who will not receive in this age ²  a hundred times as much – homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions ³  – and in the age to come, eternal life. ⁴ 

Mark 10:1

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10:1 Then ⁵  Jesus ⁶  left that place and went to the region of Judea and ⁷  beyond the Jordan River. ⁸  Again crowds gathered to him, and again, as was his custom, he taught them.

Mark 5:2

5:2 Just as Jesus ⁹  was getting out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit ¹⁰  came from the tombs and met him. ¹¹ 

James 2:15

2:15 If a brother or sister ¹²  is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,

James 2:1

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2:1 My brothers and sisters, ¹³  do not show prejudice ¹⁴  if you possess faith ¹⁵  in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁶ 

James 1:22-23

1:22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. 1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone ¹⁷  who gazes at his own face ¹⁸  in a mirror.

[12:50]  ¹ tn The pleonastic pronoun αὐτός (autos, “he”) which precedes this verb has not been translated.

[10:30]  ² tn Grk “this time” (καιρός, kairos), but for stylistic reasons this has been translated “this age” here.

[10:30]  ³ tn Grk “with persecutions.” The “all” has been supplied to clarify that the prepositional phrase belongs not just to the “fields.”

[10:30]  ⁴ sn Note that Mark (see also Matt 19:29; Luke 10:25, 18:30) portrays eternal life as something one receives in the age to come, unlike John, who emphasizes the possibility of receiving eternal life in the present (John 5:24).

[10:1]  ⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[10:1]  ⁶ tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:1]  ⁷ tc Alexandrian and other witnesses (א B C* L Ψ 0274 892 2427 pc co) read καὶ πέραν (kai peran, “and beyond”), while Western and Caesarean witnesses (C² D W Δ Θ Ë^1,13 28 565 579 1241 al) read πέραν (simply “beyond”). It is difficult to decide between the Alexandrian and Western readings here, but since the parallel in Matt 19:1 omits καί the weight is slightly in favor of including it here; scribes may have omitted the word here to harmonize this passage to the Matthean passage. Because of the perceived geographical difficulties found in the earlier readings (omission of the word “and” would make it seem as though Judea is beyond the Jordan), the majority of the witnesses (A Ï) read διὰ τοῦ πέραν (dia tou peran, “through the other side”), perhaps trying to indicate the direction of Jesus’ travel.

[10:1]  ⁸ tn “River” is not in the Greek text but is supplied for clarity. The region referred to here is sometimes known as Transjordan (i.e., “across the Jordan”).

[5:2]  ⁹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:2]  ¹⁰ sn Unclean spirit refers to an evil spirit.

[5:2]  ¹¹ tn Grk “met him from the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.” When this is converted to normal English word order (“a man met him from the tombs with an unclean spirit”) it sounds as if “with an unclean spirit” modifies “the tombs.” Likewise, “a man with an unclean spirit from the tombs met him” implies that the unclean spirit came from the tombs, while the Greek text is clear that it is the man who had the unclean spirit who came from the tombs. To make this clear a second verb, “came,” is supplied in English: “came from the tombs and met him.”

[2:15]  ¹² tn It is important to note that the words ἀδελφός (adelfos) and ἀδελφή (adelfh) both occur in the Greek text at this point, confirming that the author intended to refer to both men and women. See the note on “someone” in 2:2.

[2:1]  ¹³ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[2:1]  ¹⁴ tn Or “partiality.”

[2:1]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “do not have faith with personal prejudice,” with emphasis on the last phrase.

[2:1]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “our Lord Jesus Christ of glory.” Here δόξης (doxhs) has been translated as an attributive genitive.

[1:23]  ¹⁷ tn The word for “man” or “individual” is ἀνήρ (anhr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” However, as BDAG 79 s.v. 2 says, here it is “equivalent to τὶς someone, a person.”

[1:23]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”