Discovery Box| (0.64145512820513) | (Zec 1:7) |
1 sn The twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month…in Darius’ second year was February 15, 519 |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Mat 6:2) |
1 tn Grk “give alms,” but this term is not in common use today. The giving of alms was highly regarded in the ancient world (Deut 15:7-11). |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Mat 24:43) |
1 sn On Jesus pictured as a returning thief, see 1 Thess 5:2, 4; 2 Pet 3:10; Rev 3:3; 16:15. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Mat 27:45) |
2 sn This imagery has parallels to the Day of the Lord: Joel 2:10; Amos 8:9; Zeph 1:15. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Mar 6:33) |
1 tn Grk “ran together on foot.” The idea of συντρέχω (suntrecw) is “to come together quickly to form a crowd” (L&N 15.133). |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Mar 8:9) |
1 sn The parallel in Matt 15:32-39 notes that the four thousand were only men, a point not made explicit in Mark. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Mar 15:16) |
1 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “So” to indicate that the soldiers’ action is in response to Pilate’s condemnation of the prisoner in v. 15. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Mar 15:33) |
3 sn This imagery has parallels to the Day of the Lord: Joel 2:10; Amos 8:9; Zeph 1:15. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Luk 10:19) |
1 tn Or perhaps, “trample on” (which emphasizes the impact of the feet on the snakes). See L&N 15.226. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Luk 11:31) |
2 sn For the imagery of judgment, see Luke 10:13-15 and 11:19. The warnings are coming consistently now. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Luk 12:39) |
1 sn On Jesus pictured as a returning thief, see 1 Thess 5:2, 4; 2 Pet 3:10; Rev 3:3; 16:15. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Luk 16:21) |
3 sn When the dogs came and licked his sores it meant that he was unclean. See the negative image of Rev 22:15 that draws on this picture. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Luk 19:10) |
1 sn The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost is Jesus’ mission succinctly defined. See Luke 15:1-32. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Luk 21:12) |
3 sn Some of the persecution is of Jewish origin (the synagogues). Some fulfillment of this can be seen in Acts. See the note on synagogues in 4:15. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Luk 24:52) |
3 sn Joy is another key theme for Luke: 1:14; 2:10; 8:13; 10:17; 15:7, 10; 24:41. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Joh 4:5) |
2 sn Sychar was somewhere in the vicinity of Shechem, possibly the village of Askar, 1.5 km northeast of Jacob’s well. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Joh 6:14) |
2 sn The Prophet is a reference to the “prophet like Moses” of Deut 18:15, by this time an eschatological figure in popular belief. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Joh 7:40) |
3 sn The Prophet is a reference to the “prophet like Moses” of Deut 18:15, by this time an eschatological figure in popular belief. |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Act 7:37) |
2 sn A quotation from Deut 18:15. This quotation sets up Jesus as the “leader-prophet” like Moses (Acts 3:22; Luke 9:35). |
| (0.64145512820513) | (Act 8:14) |
3 sn They sent. The Jerusalem church with the apostles was overseeing the expansion of the church, as the distribution of the Spirit indicates in vv. 15-17. |
