Discovery BoxTitus 1:4
Context1:4 To Titus, my genuine son in a common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior!
John 4:10
Context4:10 Jesus answered 1 her, “If you had known 2 the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water 3 to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 4
John 14:16-17
Context14:16 Then 5 I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate 6 to be with you forever – 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, 7 because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides 8 with you and will be 9 in you.
John 16:7
Context16:7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate 10 will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.
Romans 8:2
Context8:2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit 11 in Christ Jesus has set you 12 free from the law of sin and death.
[4:10] 1 tn Grk “answered and said to her.”
[4:10] 3 tn The phrase “some water” is supplied as the understood direct object of the infinitive πεῖν (pein).
[4:10] 4 tn This is a second class conditional sentence in Greek.
[14:16] 5 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Then” to reflect the implied sequence in the discourse.
[14:16] 6 tn Or “Helper” or “Counselor”; Grk “Paraclete,” from the Greek word παράκλητος (paraklhto"). Finding an appropriate English translation for παράκλητος is a very difficult task. No single English word has exactly the same range of meaning as the Greek word. “Comforter,” used by some of the older English versions, appears to be as old as Wycliffe. But today it suggests a quilt or a sympathetic mourner at a funeral. “Counselor” is adequate, but too broad, in contexts like “marriage counselor” or “camp counselor.” “Helper” or “Assistant” could also be used, but could suggest a subordinate rank. “Advocate,” the word chosen for this translation, has more forensic overtones than the Greek word does, although in John 16:5-11 a forensic context is certainly present. Because an “advocate” is someone who “advocates” or supports a position or viewpoint and since this is what the Paraclete will do for the preaching of the disciples, it was selected in spite of the drawbacks.
[14:17] 7 tn Or “cannot receive.”
[14:17] 9 tc Some early and important witnesses (Ì66* B D* W 1 565 it) have ἐστιν (estin, “he is”) instead of ἔσται (estai, “he will be”) here, while other weighty witnesses ({Ì66c,75vid א A D1 L Θ Ψ Ë13 33vid Ï as well as several versions and fathers}), read the future tense. When one considers transcriptional evidence, ἐστιν is the more difficult reading and better explains the rise of the future tense reading, but it must be noted that both Ì66 and D were corrected from the present tense to the future. If ἐστιν were the original reading, one would expect a few manuscripts to be corrected to read the present when they originally read the future, but that is not the case. When one considers what the author would have written, the future is on much stronger ground. The immediate context (both in 14:16 and in the chapter as a whole) points to the future, and the theology of the book regards the advent of the Spirit as a decidedly future event (see, e.g., 7:39 and 16:7). The present tense could have arisen from an error of sight on the part of some scribes or more likely from an error of thought as scribes reflected upon the present role of the Spirit. Although a decision is difficult, the future tense is most likely authentic. For further discussion on this textual problem, see James M. Hamilton, Jr., “He Is with You and He Will Be in You” (Ph.D. diss., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2003), 213-20.
[16:7] 10 tn Or “Helper” or “Counselor”; Grk “Paraclete,” from the Greek word παράκλητος (paraklhto"). See the note on the word “Advocate” in John 14:16 for a discussion of how this word is translated.
[8:2] 11 tn Grk “for the law of the Spirit of life.”
[8:2] 12 tc Most
