² tn Heb “between claim and claim.”

² sn Naming their lands after themselves is a claim of possession.

¹ tn Heb “for you accomplished my justice and my legal claim.”

³ sn Teacher, rebuke your disciples. The Pharisees were complaining that the claims were too great.

¹ sn The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No one!” The claim is supported by the following description.

³ tn Heb “without transgression,” but this is parallel to the first part where the claim is innocence.

¹ tn This verse would then be a parenthesis in which he stops to claim his innocence.

² tn Heb “will cling to you” (so NIV); NLT “will claim you.”

² sn We have heard it ourselves. The Sanhedrin regarded the answer as convicting Jesus. They saw it as blasphemous to claim such intimacy and shared authority with God, a claim so serious and convicting that no further testimony was needed.

² sn 1 John 2:3-11. The section 2:3-11 contains three claims to intimate knowledge of God, each introduced by the phrase the one who says (participles in the Greek text) in 2:4, 6, and 9. As with the three claims beginning with “if” in the previous section (1:6, 8, 10), these indirectly reflect the claims of the opponents. Each claim is followed by the author’s evaluation and its implications.

² sn The members of the council understood the force of the claim and asked Jesus about another title, Son of God.

¹ tn Or “confesses”; cf. BDAG 708 s.v. ὁμολογέω 4, “to acknowledge someth., ordinarily in public, acknowledge, claim, profess, praise.”

³ sn The claim of wisdom in this passage is that she was foundational to all that God would do.

¹ sn Eliphaz draws on Job’s claim with this word (cf. Job 13:3), but will declare it hollow.

² sn They began to accuse him. There were three charges: (1) disturbing Jewish peace; (2) fomenting rebellion through advocating not paying taxes (a lie—20:20-26); and (3) claiming to be a political threat to Rome, by claiming to be a king, an allusion to Jesus’ messianic claims. The second and third charges were a direct challenge to Roman authority. Pilate would be forced to do something about them.

³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “yet” to indicate the contrast between what these people claimed and what they were.

⁵ sn “We find nothing wrong with this man.” Here is another declaration of innocence. These leaders recognized the possibility that Paul might have the right to make his claim.

² sn The Greek word used here (δεῖ, dei) is a strong term that expresses divine necessity. The claim is that God commanded the circumcision of Gentiles.

² sn Jesus’ Jewish listeners understood his claim to deity, rejected it, and picked up stones to throw at him for what they considered blasphemy.

¹ sn With the statement “he has done nothing,” Pilate makes another claim that Jesus is innocent of any crime worthy of death.