Discovery Box2 Timothy 4:3-4 
Context4:3 For there will be a time when people 1 will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, 2 they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things. 3 4:4 And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths. 4
1 tn Grk “they”; the referent (the people in that future time) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Grk “in accord with.”
3 tn Grk “having an itching in regard to hearing,” “having itching ears.”
4 sn These myths were legendary tales characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus and Crete. See parallels in 1 Tim 1:4; 4:7; and Titus 1:14.
