Discovery Box| (0.50) | (2Co 8:6) | 1 tn A new sentence was started here in the translation and the word “thus” was supplied to indicate that it expresses the result of the previous clause. |
| (0.50) | (1Co 3:6) | 1 sn The expression I planted is generally taken to mean that Paul founded the church at Corinth. Later Apollos had a significant ministry there (watered). See also v. 10. |
| (0.50) | (Rom 9:8) | 2 tn Because it forms the counterpoint to “the children of promise” the expression “children of the flesh” has been retained in the translation. |
| (0.50) | (Rom 3:5) | 2 sn The same expression occurs in Gal 3:15, and similar phrases in Rom 6:19 and 1 Cor 9:8. |
| (0.50) | (Rom 2:9) | 1 tn No verb is expressed in this verse, but the verb “to be” is implied by the Greek construction. Literally “suffering and distress on everyone…” |
| (0.50) | (Act 23:21) | 2 tn Grk “forty men of them.” In the expression ἐξ αὐτῶν ἄνδρες (ex autōn andres) “men” is somewhat redundant and has not been included in the English translation. |
| (0.50) | (Act 22:14) | 1 sn The expression God of our ancestors is a description of the God of Israel. The God of promise was at work again. |
| (0.50) | (Act 21:3) | 2 sn The expression left it behind on our port side here means “sailed past to the south of it” since the ship was sailing east. |
| (0.50) | (Act 20:24) | 3 tn BDAG 1106 s.v. ὡς 9 describes this use as “a final particle, expressing intention/purpose, with a view to, in order to.” |
| (0.50) | (Act 15:5) | 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. |
| (0.50) | (Act 9:14) | 2 sn The expression “those who call on your name” is a frequent description of believers (Acts 2:21; 1 Cor 1:2; Rom 10:13). |
| (0.50) | (Act 8:7) | 1 sn The expression unclean spirits refers to evil supernatural spirits which were ceremonially unclean, and which caused the persons possessed by them to be ceremonially unclean. |
| (0.50) | (Act 7:42) | 1 sn The expression and gave them over suggests similarities to the judgment on the nations described by Paul in Rom 1:18-32. |
| (0.50) | (Act 3:24) | 1 sn All the prophets…have spoken about and announced. What Peter preaches is rooted in basic biblical and Jewish hope as expressed in the OT scriptures. |
| (0.50) | (Act 2:33) | 2 sn The expression the right hand of God represents supreme power and authority. Its use here sets up the quotation of Ps 110:1 in v. 34. |
| (0.50) | (Act 2:16) | 1 sn Note how in the quotation that follows all genders, ages, and classes are included. The event is like a hope Moses expressed in Num 11:29. |
| (0.50) | (Joh 18:17) | 1 tn Grk “slave girl.” Since the descriptive term “slave girl” was introduced in the translation in the previous verse, it would be redundant to repeat the full expression here. |
| (0.50) | (Joh 1:37) | 3 sn The expression followed Jesus pictures discipleship, which means that to learn from Jesus is to follow him as the guiding priority of one’s life. |
| (0.50) | (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.” |
| (0.50) | (Luk 21:18) | 2 sn Given v. 16, the expression not a hair of your head will perish must be taken figuratively and refer to living ultimately in the presence of God. |
