¹ tn Or “responded.”

¹ tn Heb “responded.”

⁴ tn Heb “listen to my voice,” so as to respond positively.

² sn Jesus linked himself to the disciples’ message: Responding to the disciples (listens to you) counts as responding to him.

³ sn Again, the expression turned is a summary term for responding to the gospel.

³ sn A large group. Many Jews, even some religious leaders, were responding.

³ tn Grk “you do not hear” (in the sense of listening to something and responding to it).

² tn Grk “to God hears” (in the sense of listening to something and responding to it).

² tn Or “obey”; Grk “hear.” See the note on the phrase “respond to” in v. 29.

¹ tn Heb “hear.” Here the verb refers to hearing favorably, accepting the prayer and responding positively.

¹ tn Heb “and he says.” Apparently a second “voice” responds to the command of the first “voice.”

² tn Heb “listen to the voice of,” meaning listen so as to respond appropriately.

¹ sn Jesus’ point in calling the man a foreigner is that none of the other nine, who were presumably Israelites, responded with gratitude. Only the “outsiders” were listening and responding.

² sn Jesus commends the reply (you have answered correctly). What is assumed here, given the previous context, is that he will respond to Jesus’ message, as to love God is to respond to his Son; see v. 22.

¹ sn How one responds now to Jesus and his teaching is a reflection of how Jesus, as the Son of Man who judges, will respond then in the final judgment.

¹ sn How one responds now to Jesus and his teaching is a reflection of how Jesus, as the Son of Man who judges, will respond then in the final judgment.

³ sn Note how the failure to respond to the message of the gospel is seen as a failure to turn.

¹ sn The actions of asking, seeking, and knocking are repeated here from v. 9 with the encouragement that God does respond.

⁴ tn The negative οὐ (ou) used with the verb expects a positive reply. Martha expected Jesus to respond and rebuke Mary.

¹ tn Heb “the Lord answered and said.” The redundant expression “answered and said” has been simplified in the translation as “responded.”