Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Luk 15:3) | 3 sn Them means at the minimum the parable is for the leadership, but probably also for those people Jesus accepted, but the leaders regarded as outcasts. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 14:15) | 4 tn Or “will dine”; Grk “eat bread.” This refers to those who enjoy the endless fellowship of God’s coming rule. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 8:25) | 2 sn “Where is your faith?” The call is to trust God and realize that those who exercise faith can trust in his care. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 7:35) | 2 tn Or “by all those who follow her” (cf. CEV, NLT). Note that the parallel in Matt 11:19 reads “by her deeds.” |
| (0.30) | (Luk 5:39) | 3 sn The third illustration points out that those already satisfied with what they have will not seek the new (The old is good enough). |
| (0.30) | (Luk 5:17) | 3 tn That is, those who were skilled in the teaching and interpretation of the OT law. These are called “experts in the law” (Grk “scribes”) in v. 21. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 12:9) | 1 sn The statement that the owner will come and destroy those tenants is a promise of judgment; see Luke 13:34-35; 19:41-44. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 9:42) | 1 sn The punishment of drowning with a heavy weight attached is extremely gruesome and reflects Jesus’ views concerning those who cause others who believe in him to sin. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 18:6) | 2 sn The punishment of drowning with a heavy weight attached is extremely gruesome and reflects Jesus’ views concerning those who cause others who believe in him to sin. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 5:44) | 1 tc Most mss (D L W Δ Θ ƒ13 33 565 579 700 1241 1424 M lat sy(p),h) read “bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you,” before “those who persecute you.” But this is surely a motivated reading, importing the longer form of this aphorism from Luke 6:27-28. The shorter text is found in א B ƒ1 sys,c sa bopt mae, as well as several fathers. |
| (0.30) | (Mal 3:8) | 2 sn The tithes and contributions mentioned here are probably those used to sustain the Levites (see Num 18:8, 11, 19, 21-24). |
| (0.30) | (Hag 2:16) | 1 tn Heb “from their being,” idiomatic for “from the time they were then,” or “since the time.” Cf. KJV “Since those days were.” |
| (0.30) | (Zep 3:10) | 2 sn It is not certain if those who pray to me refers to the converted nations or to God’s exiled covenant people. |
| (0.30) | (Zep 3:12) | 1 tn Heb “needy and poor people.” The terms often refer to a socioeconomic group, but here they may refer to those who are humble in a spiritual sense. |
| (0.30) | (Mic 6:16) | 4 tn The Hebrew term שַׁמָּה (shammah) can refer to “destruction; ruin,” or to the reaction it produces in those who witness the destruction. |
| (0.30) | (Hos 13:2) | 3 tn Heb “They say about them.” Another possible rendering for the line is: “It is said of them—those men who sacrifice, ‘They kiss calves!’” The phrase זֹבְחֵי אָדָם (zovkhe ʾadam, “those men who sacrifice”) functions either (1) as the subject of the verb יִשָּׁקוּן (yishaqun, “they kiss”) in the quotation in the direct discourse: “It is said of them, ‘Those men who sacrifice kiss calves!’” or (2) in apposition to the indirect object third person masculine plural suffix לָהֶם (lahem, “about them”): “It is said of them, that is, those men who sacrifice….” |
| (0.30) | (Dan 6:11) | 1 tn Aram “those men”; the referent (the administrative officials who had earlier approached the king about the edict) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 48:17) | 1 sn This refers both to the nearby nations and to those who lived farther away and had heard of Moab’s power and might only by repute. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 43:10) | 1 sn This is another of those symbolic prophecies of Jeremiah that involved an action and an explanation. Cf. Jer 19 and 27. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 38:2) | 2 tn Heb “those who go out to the Chaldeans.” For the rendering “Babylonians” for “Chaldeans,” see the study note on 21:4. |
