Discovery Box| (0.46602472580645) | (Mat 28:17) |
2 tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Mar 1:5) |
3 tn Grk “they were being baptized by him.” The passive construction has been rendered as active in the translation for the sake of English style. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Mar 2:16) |
2 sn Pharisees were members of one of the most important and influential religious and political parties of Judaism in the time of Jesus. There were more Pharisees than Sadducees (according to Josephus, Ant. 17.2.4 [17.42] there were more than 6,000 Pharisees at about this time). Pharisees differed with Sadducees on certain doctrines and patterns of behavior. The Pharisees were strict and zealous adherents to the laws of the OT and to numerous additional traditions such as angels and bodily resurrection. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Mar 3:3) |
1 sn Most likely synagogues were arranged with benches along the walls and open space in the center for seating on the floor. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Mar 3:7) |
2 tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Mar 5:4) |
1 tn Grk “he had often been bound with chains and shackles.” “Shackles” could also be translated “fetters”; they were chains for the feet. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (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. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Mar 9:37) |
2 sn Children were very insignificant in ancient culture, so this child would be the perfect object lesson to counter the disciples’ selfish ambitions. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Mar 10:21) |
1 tn The words “the money” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Mar 10:41) |
3 tn The word “this” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Mar 14:40) |
1 tn Grk “because their eyes were weighed down,” an idiom for becoming extremely or excessively sleepy (L&N 23.69). |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Mar 16:1) |
1 sn Spices were used not to preserve the body, but as an act of love, and to mask the growing stench of a corpse. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Luk 1:5) |
4 sn There were twenty-four divisions of priesthood and the priestly division of Abijah was eighth on the list according to 1 Chr 24:10. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Luk 1:12) |
1 tn The words “the angel” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Luk 1:59) |
2 sn They were following OT law (Lev 12:3) which prescribed that a male child was to be circumcised on the eighth day. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Luk 2:7) |
1 sn The strips of cloth (traditionally, “swaddling cloths”) were strips of linen that would be wrapped around the arms and legs of an infant to keep the limbs protected. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Luk 2:17) |
2 tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Luk 2:21) |
1 tn Grk “And when eight days were completed.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Luk 5:14) |
6 tn The words “the offering” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context. |
| (0.46602472580645) | (Luk 5:15) |
2 tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context. |
