Discovery Box| (0.50351098039216) | (Luk 15:21) |
2 sn The phrase against heaven is a circumlocution for God. 1st century Judaism tended to minimize use of the divine name out of reverence. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Luk 16:13) |
3 tn Grk “God and mammon.” This is the same word (μαμωνᾶς, mamwnas; often merely transliterated as “mammon”) translated “worldly wealth” in vv. 9, 11. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Luk 17:33) |
2 sn Whoever loses his life. Suffering and persecution caused by the world, even to death, cannot stop God from saving (Luke 12:4-6). |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Luk 18:21) |
4 sn Since my youth. Judaism regarded the age of thirteen as the age when a man would have become responsible to live by God’s commands. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Luk 18:38) |
4 sn Have mercy on me is a request for healing (cf. 17:13). It is not owed the man. He simply asks for God’s kind grace. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Luk 19:11) |
4 sn Luke means here the appearance of the full kingdom of God in power with the Son of Man as judge as Luke 17:22-37 describes. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Luk 20:22) |
1 tn Or “lawful,” that is, in accordance with God’s divine law. On the syntax of ἔξεστιν (exestin) with an infinitive and accusative, see BDF §409.3. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Luk 21:18) |
2 sn Given v. 16, the expression not a hair of your head will perish must be taken figuratively and refer to living ultimately in the presence of God. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Luk 21:24) |
5 sn Until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled implies a time when Israel again has a central role in God’s plan. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Luk 22:3) |
2 sn The cross is portrayed as part of the cosmic battle between Satan and God; see Luke 4:1-13; 11:14-23. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Luk 22:37) |
1 sn This scripture must be fulfilled in me. The statement again reflects the divine necessity of God’s plan. See 4:43-44. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Luk 23:40) |
2 tn The particle used here (οὐδέ, oude), which expects a positive reply, makes this a rebuke – “You should fear God and not speak!” |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Joh 5:42) |
1 tn The genitive in the phrase τὴν ἀγάπην τοῦ θεοῦ (thn agaphn tou qeou, “the love of God”) could be translated as either a subjective genitive (“God’s love”) or an objective genitive (“love for God”). Either is grammatically possible. This is possibly an instance of a plenary genitive (see ExSyn 119-21; M. Zerwick, Biblical Greek, §§36-39). If so, the emphasis would be on the love God gives which in turn produces love for him, but Jesus’ opponents are lacking any such love inside them. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Act 2:33) |
2 sn The expression the right hand of God represents supreme power and authority. Its use here sets up the quotation of Ps 110:1 in v. 34. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Act 3:21) |
2 sn The term must used here (δεῖ, dei, “it is necessary”) is a key Lukan term to point to the plan of God and what must occur. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Act 4:11) |
3 sn A quotation from Ps 118:22 which combines the theme of rejection with the theme of God’s vindication/exaltation. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Act 4:12) |
2 sn Must be saved. The term used here (δεῖ, dei, “it is necessary”) reflects the necessity set up by God’s directive plan. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Act 4:24) |
2 sn The use of the title Master of all (δεσπότης, despoths) emphasizes that there is a sovereign God who is directing what is taking place. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Act 5:25) |
2 sn Obeying God (see v. 29), the apostles were teaching again (4:18-20; 5:20). They did so despite the risk. |
| (0.50351098039216) | (Act 5:41) |
1 sn That is, considered worthy by God. They “gloried in their shame” of honoring Jesus with their testimony (Luke 6:22-23; 2 Macc 6:30). |
