Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Luk 1:42) | 3 sn The commendation Blessed are you among women means that Mary has a unique privilege to be the mother of the promised one of God. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 13:2) | 1 sn With the statement not one stone will be left on another Jesus predicted the total destruction of the temple, something that did occur in a.d. 70. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 12:15) | 2 sn A denarius was a silver coin stamped with the image of the emperor and worth approximately one day’s wage for a laborer. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 6:48) | 1 tn This verse is one complete sentence in the Greek text, but it has been broken into two sentences in English for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 6:10) | 1 sn Jesus telling his disciples to stay there in one house contrasts with the practice of religious philosophers in the ancient world who went from house to house begging. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 4:12) | 1 sn A quotation from Isa 6:9-10. Thus parables both conceal or reveal depending on whether one is open to hearing what they teach. |
| (0.30) | (Mar 1:10) | 3 sn The phrase like a dove is a descriptive comparison. The Spirit is not a dove, but descended like one in some sort of bodily representation. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 24:40) | 1 sn There is debate among commentators and scholars over the phrase one will be taken and one left about whether one is taken for judgment or for salvation. If the imagery is patterned after the rescue of Noah from the flood, as some suggest, the ones taken are the saved (as Noah was) and those left behind are judged. The imagery, however, is not directly tied to the identification of the two groups. Its primary purpose in context is to picture the sudden, surprising separation of the righteous and the judged (i.e., condemned) at the return of the Son of Man. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 24:27) | 1 sn The Son of Man’s coming in power will be sudden and obvious like lightning. No one will need to point it out. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 24:2) | 3 sn With the statement not one stone will be left on another Jesus predicted the total destruction of the temple, something that did occur in a.d. 70. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 20:13) | 2 tn Grk “And answering, he said to one of them.” This construction is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified in the translation. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 13:15) | 1 sn A quotation from Isa 6:9-10. Thus parables both conceal or reveal depending on whether one is open to hearing what they teach. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 11:16) | 3 tn Grk “who call out to one another, saying.” The participle λέγουσιν (legousin) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 10:37) | 1 sn The statement demands uncompromising, radical loyalty to Jesus, a loyalty so powerful that it surpasses normal human relationships, even familial ones. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 7:21) | 1 sn The double use of the vocative is normally used in situations of high emotion or emphasis. Even an emphatic confession like this one without corresponding action means little. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 6:24) | 1 sn The contrast between hate and love here is rhetorical. The point is that one will choose the favorite if a choice has to be made. |
| (0.30) | (Mat 3:16) | 5 sn The phrase like a dove is a descriptive comparison. The Spirit is not a dove, but descended like one in some sort of bodily representation. |
| (0.30) | (Mal 2:15) | 3 sn The wife he took in his youth probably refers to the first wife one married (cf. NCV “the wife you married when you were young”). |
| (0.30) | (Mal 1:4) | 3 tn Heb “and they will call them.” The third person plural subject is indefinite; one could translate, “and people will call them.” |
| (0.30) | (Zec 14:5) | 3 sn The earthquake in the days of King Uzziah, also mentioned in Amos 1:1, is apparently the one attested to at Hazor in 760 b.c. |
