Discovery Box| (0.53035339130435) | (Jon 2:6) |
9 sn Jonah pictures himself as being at the very gates of the netherworld (v. he%27s&tab=notes" ver="">6b) and now within the Pit itself (v. he%27s&tab=notes" ver="">6c). He is speaking rhetorically, for he had not actually died. His point is that he was as good as dead if God did not intervene immediately. See Pss 7:15; 30:3; 103:4; Ezek 19:3-4, 8. |
| (0.53035339130435) | (Mat 22:7) |
2 tn Grk “he sent his soldiers, destroyed those murderers.” The verb ἀπώλεσεν (apwlesen) is causative, indicating that the king was the one behind the execution of the murderers. In English the causative idea is not expressed naturally here; either a purpose clause (“he sent his soldiers to put those murderers to death”) or a relative clause (“he sent his soldier who put those murderers to death”) is preferred. |
| (0.53035339130435) | (Luk 16:6) |
4 sn The bill was halved (sit down quickly, and write fifty). What was the steward doing? This is debated. 1) Did he simply lower the price? 2) Did he remove interest from the debt? 3) Did he remove his own commission? It is hard to be sure. Either of the latter two options is more likely. The goal was clear: The manager would be seen in a favorable light for bringing a deflationary trend to prices. |
| (0.53035339130435) | (Joh 8:14) |
3 sn You people do not know where I came from or where I am going. The ignorance of the religious authorities regarding Jesus’ origin works on two levels at once: First, they thought Jesus came from Galilee (although he really came from Bethlehem in Judea) and second, they did not know that he came from heaven (from the Father), and this is where he would return. See further John 7:52. |
| (0.53035339130435) | (Joh 11:4) |
3 sn So that the Son of God may be glorified through it. These statements are highly ironic: For Lazarus, the sickness did not end in his death, because he was restored to life. But for Jesus himself, the miraculous sign he performed led to his own death, because it confirmed the authorities in their plan to kill Jesus (he%27s&tab=notes" ver="">11:47-53). In the Gospel of John, Jesus’ death is consistently portrayed as his ‘glorification’ through which he accomplishes his return to the Father. |
| (0.53035339130435) | (Joh 18:24) |
2 sn Where was Caiaphas the high priest located? Did he have a separate palace, or was he somewhere else with the Sanhedrin? Since Augustine (4th century) a number of scholars have proposed that Annas and Caiaphas resided in different wings of the same palace, which were bound together by a common courtyard through which Jesus would have been led as he was taken from Annas to Caiaphas. This seems a reasonable explanation, although there is no conclusive evidence. |
| (0.53035339130435) | (Heb 1:4) |
2 tn Most modern English translations attempt to make the comparison somewhat smoother by treating “name” as if it were the subject of the second element: “as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, CEV). However, the Son is the subject of both the first and second elements: “he became so far better”; “he has inherited a name.” The present translation maintains this parallelism even though it results in a somewhat more awkward rendering. |
| (0.53035339130435) | (Jud 1:1) |
3 sn Although Jude was half-brother of Jesus, he humbly associates himself with James, his full brother. By first calling himself a slave of Jesus Christ, it is evident that he wants no one to place stock in his physical connections. At the same time, he must identify himself further: Since Jude was a common name in the 1st century (two of Jesus’ disciples were so named, including his betrayer), more information was needed, that is to say, brother of James. |
| (0.52822076086957) | (Gen 2:21) |
2 tn Heb “and he slept.” In the sequence the verb may be subordinated to the following verb to indicate a temporal clause (“while…”). |
| (0.52822076086957) | (Gen 4:4) |
1 tn Heb “But Abel brought, also he….” The disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) stresses the contrast between Cain’s offering and Abel’s. |
| (0.52822076086957) | (Gen 5:3) |
1 tn Heb “and Adam lived 130 years.” In the translation the verb is subordinated to the following verb, “and he fathered,” and rendered as a temporal clause. |
| (0.52822076086957) | (Gen 6:3) |
4 tn Heb “he”; the plural pronoun has been used in the translation since “man” earlier in the verse has been understood as a collective (“humankind”). |
| (0.52822076086957) | (Gen 6:22) |
2 tn The last clause seems redundant: “and thus (כֵּן, ken) he did.” It underscores the obedience of Noah to all that God had said. |
| (0.52822076086957) | (Gen 9:20) |
2 tn Or “Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard”; Heb “and Noah, a man of the ground, began and he planted a vineyard.” |
| (0.52822076086957) | (Gen 12:4) |
3 tn The disjunctive clause (note the pattern conjunction + subject + implied “to be” verb) is parenthetical, telling the age of Abram when he left Haran. |
| (0.52822076086957) | (Gen 13:1) |
2 tn Heb “And Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all which was his, and Lot with him, to the Negev.” |
| (0.52822076086957) | (Gen 13:4) |
1 tn Heb “to the place of the altar which he had made there in the beginning” (cf. Gen 12:7-8). |
| (0.52822076086957) | (Gen 14:12) |
4 tn This disjunctive clause is circumstantial/causal, explaining that Lot was captured because he was living in Sodom at the time. |
| (0.52822076086957) | (Gen 15:4) |
5 tn Heb “he who”; the implied referent (Abram’s unborn son who will be his heir) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.52822076086957) | (Gen 18:15) |
1 tn Heb “And he said, ‘No, but you did laugh.’” The referent (the |
