Discovery Box| (0.5819579047619) | (Luk 19:26) |
1 sn Everyone who has will be given more. Again, faithfulness yields great reward (see Luke 8:18; also Matt 13:12; Mark 4:25). |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Joh 13:19) |
1 tn Or (perhaps) “I am certainly telling you this.” According to BDF §12.3 ἀπ᾿ ἄρτι (ap’ arti) should be read as ἀπαρτί (aparti), meaning “exactly, certainly.” |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Joh 21:2) |
7 sn The two other disciples who are not named may have been Andrew and Philip, who are mentioned together in John 6:7-8 and 12:22. |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Act 2:24) |
3 sn The term translated pains is frequently used to describe pains associated with giving birth (see Rev 12:2). So there is irony here in the mixed metaphor. |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Act 8:1) |
1 tn The term ἀναίρεσις (anairesi") can refer to murder (BDAG 64 s.v.; 2 Macc 5:13; Josephus, Ant. 5.2.12 [5.165]). |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Act 9:14) |
2 sn The expression “those who call on your name” is a frequent description of believers (Acts 2:21; 1 Cor 1:2; Rom 10:13). |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Act 9:31) |
1 tn Or “Therefore.” This verse is another summary text in Acts (cf. 2:41-47; 4:32-37; 5:12-16; 6:7). |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Act 14:25) |
3 sn Attalia was a seaport in the province of Pamphylia on the southern coast of Asia Minor, about 12 mi (20 km) southwest of Perga. |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Act 14:27) |
3 sn On the image of opening, or of the door, see 1 Cor 16:9; 2 Cor 2:12; Col 4:3. |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Act 16:3) |
3 tn The verb περιέτεμεν (perietemen) here may be understood as causative (cf. ExSyn 411-12) if Paul did not personally perform the circumcision. |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Act 23:9) |
1 tn Or “clamor” (cf. BDAG 565 s.v. κραυγή 1.a, which has “there arose a loud outcry” here, and Exod 12:30). |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Act 26:16) |
2 sn As a servant and witness. The commission is similar to Acts 1:8 and Luke 1:2. Paul was now an “eyewitness” of the Lord. |
| (0.5819579047619) | (2Co 2:3) |
2 sn So that when I came. Regarding this still future visit by Paul, see 2 Cor 12:14; 13:1. |
| (0.5819579047619) | (1Ti 2:3) |
1 tn Grk “this”; the referent (such prayer for all, referring to vv. 1-2) is specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Heb 11:3) |
1 tn Grk “ages.” The temporal (ages) came to be used of the spatial (what exists in those time periods). See Heb 1:2 for same usage. |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Heb 11:28) |
1 sn The sprinkling of the blood refers here to the application of the blood to the doorways of the Israelite houses (cf. Exod 12:7, 13). |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Jam 5:7) |
1 tn Grk “brothers”; this phrase occurs again three times in the paragraph. See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2. |
| (0.5819579047619) | (1Pe 2:7) |
4 sn A quotation from Ps 118:22 (cf. Matt 21:42; Mark 12:10; Luke 20:17; Acts 4:11). |
| (0.5819579047619) | (1Pe 5:6) |
1 tn Grk “in time,” but connoting “the proper time, when the time is right” as in Matt 24:45; Luke 12:42. |
| (0.5819579047619) | (Rev 12:7) |
2 sn The archangel Michael had a special role in protecting the nation of Israel in the OT (Dan 10:13, 21; 12:1; see also Jude 9). |
