10:32 “Whoever, then, acknowledges 4 me before people, I will acknowledge 5 before my Father in heaven. 10:33 But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.
1 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
2 sn Judaism had a similar exhortation in 4 Macc 13:14-15.
3 sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22.
4 tn Or “confesses.”
5 tn Grk “I will acknowledge him also.”
sn This acknowledgment will take place at the judgment. On Jesus and judgment, see Luke 22:69; Acts 10:42-43; 17:31.