¹ tc The LXX adds “they entered the temple of Dagon and saw.”

¹ tn Heb “and he saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

² tn Heb “And he saw and, look, the people were coming out of the city.”

² tn Heb “My oppression and the work of my hands God saw.”

³ sn When Jesus approached and saw the city. This is the last travel note in Luke’s account (the so-called Jerusalem journey), as Jesus approached and saw the city before entering it.

² tn A preterite form with the vav consecutive can be subordinated to a following clause. What she saw stands as a reason for what she did: “when she saw…she hid him three months.”

¹ tn Heb “And God saw the light, that it was good.” The verb “saw” in this passage carries the meaning “reflected on,” “surveyed,” “concluded,” “noted.” It is a description of reflection of the mind—it is God’s opinion.

¹ tn Given the context, this could be understood as a shock, e.g., idiomatically “Good grief! I saw….”

⁵ tn Or “saw visions from God.” References to divine visions occur also in Ezek 8:3 and 40:2.

² tn Heb “and the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho, [who were standing] opposite, saw him and said.”

² tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading “gleamed,” rather than the Kethib, “saw.”

³ tn The verb “saw” is supplied here because it is expected in English (see the previous note on “heard”).

² tn Heb “she saw that Shelah had grown up, but she was not given to him as a wife.”

¹ sn The name Peniel means “face of God.” Since Jacob saw God face-to-face here, the name is appropriate.

² tn Heb “in the time of the breeding of the flock I lifted up my eyes and I saw.”

³ tn Heb “And he saw, and look, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.”

³ tn Grk “and turning I saw.” The repetition of ἐπιστρέφω (epistrephō) is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has been translated generally.

² sn Gained what was promised. They saw some of God’s promises fulfilled, even though the central promise remained unfulfilled until Christ came (cf. vv. 39-40).

⁴ tn The participle γνόντες (gnontes) has been taken temporally. It is structurally parallel to the participle translated “when they saw” in v. 7.

² sn With reference to controversial questions. Note how the “neutral” Roman authorities saw the issue. This was a religious rather than a civil dispute. See Acts 18:15.