Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Act 10:17) | 3 sn As Peter puzzled over the meaning of the vision, the messengers from Cornelius approached the gate. God’s direction here had a sense of explanatory timing. |
| (0.30) | (Act 9:12) | 1 sn Apparently while in Damascus Paul had a subsequent vision in the midst of his blindness, fulfilling the prediction in 9:6. |
| (0.30) | (Act 8:27) | 8 sn Since this man had come to Jerusalem to worship, he may have been a proselyte to Judaism. This event is a precursor to Acts 10. |
| (0.30) | (Act 8:25) | 5 sn By proclaiming the good news to many Samaritan villages, the apostles now actively share in the broader ministry the Hellenists had started. |
| (0.30) | (Act 7:45) | 3 sn Before our ancestors. Stephen has backtracked here to point out how faithful God had been before the constant move to idolatry just noted. |
| (0.30) | (Joh 20:19) | 1 tn Although the words “had gathered together” are omitted in some of the earliest and best mss, they are nevertheless implied, and have thus been included in the translation. |
| (0.30) | (Joh 19:42) | 1 sn The day of preparation was the day before the Sabbath when everything had to be prepared for it, as no work could be done on the Sabbath. |
| (0.30) | (Joh 16:5) | 1 sn Now the theme of Jesus’ impending departure is resumed (I am going to the one who sent me). It will also be mentioned in 16:10, 17, and 28. Jesus had said to his opponents in 7:33 that he was going to the one who sent him; in 13:33 he had spoken of going where the disciples could not come. At that point Peter had inquired where he was going, but it appears that Peter did not understand Jesus’ reply at that time and did not persist in further questioning. In 14:5 Thomas had asked Jesus where he was going. |
| (0.30) | (Joh 1:50) | 2 sn What are the greater things Jesus had in mind? In the narrative this forms an excellent foreshadowing of the miraculous signs which began at Cana of Galilee. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 24:34) | 2 sn The Lord…has appeared to Simon. Jesus had made another appearance besides the one on the road. The excitement was rising. Simon refers to Simon Peter. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 24:35) | 1 sn Now with the recounting of what had happened on the road two sets of witnesses corroborate the women’s report. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 23:54) | 1 sn The day of preparation was the day before the Sabbath when everything had to be prepared for it, as no work could be done on the Sabbath. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 23:22) | 2 sn The refrain of innocence comes once again. Pilate tried to bring some sense of justice, believing Jesus had committed no crime deserving death. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 22:62) | 1 sn When Peter went out and wept bitterly it shows he really did not want to fail here and was deeply grieved that he had. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 22:57) | 3 sn The expression “I do not know him” had an idiomatic use in Jewish ban formulas in the synagogue and could mean, “I have nothing to do with him.” |
| (0.30) | (Luk 22:13) | 3 sn The author’s note that the disciples found things just as he had told them shows that Jesus’ word could be trusted. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 20:40) | 1 sn The attempt to show Jesus as ignorant had left the experts silenced. At this point they did not dare any longer to ask him anything. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 19:32) | 2 sn Exactly as he had told them. Nothing in Luke 19-23 catches Jesus by surprise. Often he directs the action. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 16:28) | 1 sn To warn them. The warning would consist of a call to act differently than their dead brother had, or else meet his current terrible fate. |
| (0.30) | (Luk 15:4) | 2 sn This individual with a hundred sheep is a shepherd of modest means, as flocks often had up to two hundred head of sheep. |
