Discovery Box| (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 16:24) | 2 tn This translation better expresses the force of the Greek third person imperative than the traditional “let him deny,” which could be understood as merely permissive. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 16:17) | 1 tn Grk “answering, Jesus said to him.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokritheis) is redundant, but the syntax of this phrase has been modified for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 15:15) | 1 tn Grk “And answering, Peter said to him.” This construction is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 12:38) | 3 tn Grk “answered him, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant, but the syntax of the sentence was changed to conform to English style. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 11:2) | 3 tn Grk “sending by his disciples he said to him.” The words “a question” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 9:28) | 2 tn Grk “to him, and Jesus.” This is a continuation of the previous sentence in Greek, but a new sentence was started here in the translation. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 9:6) | 3 sn Jesus did not finish his sentence with words but with action, that is, healing the paralytic with an accompanying pronouncement to him directly. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 8:2) | 3 tn This is a third class condition. The report portrays the leper making no presumptions about whether Jesus will heal him or not. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 3:15) | 1 tn Grk “but Jesus, answering, said.” This construction with passive participle and finite verb is pleonastic (redundant) and has been simplified in the translation to “replied to him.” |
| (0.30) | (Mat 3:6) | 1 tn Grk “they were being baptized by him.” The passive construction has been rendered as active in the translation for the sake of English style. |
| (0.30) | (Hab 1:12) | 4 tn Heb “him,” a collective singular referring to the Babylonians. The plural pronoun “them” has been used in the translation in keeping with contemporary English style. |
| (0.30) | (Nah 1:9) | 3 tn Or “The Lord will completely foil whatever you plot against him”; or “Whatever you may think about the Lord, he [always] brings everything to a conclusion.” |
| (0.30) | (Dan 10:13) | 2 tc The Greek version of Theodotion reads “I left him [i.e., Michael] there,” and this is followed by a number of English translations (cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT). |
| (0.30) | (Dan 8:7) | 4 tn Heb “he hurled him.” The referents of both pronouns (the male goat and the ram) have been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Dan 5:20) | 2 sn The point of describing Nebuchadnezzar as arrogant is that he had usurped divine prerogatives, and because of his immense arrogance God had dealt decisively with him. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 32:25) | 1 tn Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24). |
| (0.30) | (Eze 32:26) | 1 tn Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24). |
| (0.30) | (Jer 40:5) | 3 tn Heb “Go back to Gedaliah…and live with him among the people.” The long Hebrew sentence has been restructured to better conform with contemporary English style. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 39:5) | 3 sn 2 Kgs 25:5 and Jer 52:8 mention that the soldiers all scattered from him. That is why the text focuses on Zedekiah here. |
