¹ tn Grk “and immediately coming up out of the water, he saw.” The present participle has been translated temporally, with the subject (Jesus) specified for clarity.

² tn Or “sky.” The Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context. The same word is used in v. 11.

³ sn The phrase like a dove is a descriptive comparison. The Spirit is not a dove, but descended like one in some sort of bodily representation.

⁴ tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the response to Jesus’ request.

⁵ tn It is possible that this prepositional phrase modifies “as he was,” not “they took him along.” The meaning would then be “they took him along in the boat in which he was already sitting” (see 4:1).

sn A boat that held all the disciples would be of significant size.

⁶ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ sn Unclean spirit refers to an evil spirit.

⁸ tn Grk “met him from the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.” When this is converted to normal English word order (“a man met him from the tombs with an unclean spirit”) it sounds as if “with an unclean spirit” modifies “the tombs.” Likewise, “a man with an unclean spirit from the tombs met him” implies that the unclean spirit came from the tombs, while the Greek text is clear that it is the man who had the unclean spirit who came from the tombs. To make this clear a second verb, “came,” is supplied in English: “came from the tombs and met him.”

⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the flow within the narrative.

¹⁰ tn Grk “and came.”

¹¹ sn The author’s note that the disciples found things just as he had told them shows that Jesus’ word could be trusted.