translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: MAT

label: NET translator note

text: includes the word in brackets, indicating reservations about its authenticity.


text: The imperfect tense verb is here rendered with an iterative force.


text: Here καί ( kai ) has not been translated.


text: Grk “he”; the referent (Herod) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Grk “him” (also in the following phrase, Grk “accepted him”); in both cases the referent (John) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: The Greek text reads here ὁμολογέω ( Jomologew ); though normally translated “acknowledge, confess,” BDAG (708 s.v. 1 ) lists “assure, promise with an oath” for certain contexts such as here.


text: Grk “and being grieved, the king commanded.” sn Herod was technically not a king , but this reflects popular usage. See the note on tetrarch in 14:1 .


text: Grk “And.” Here καί ( kai ) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of previous action(s) in the narrative.


text: Grk “And his”; the referent (John the Baptist) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Grk “his”; the referent (John) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here καί ( kai ) has been translated as “Then.”


text: The word “it” is not in the Greek text but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.


text: Or “cities.”


text: Or “a desert” (meaning a deserted or desolate area with sparse vegetation).


text: has the word in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity.


text: Here the pronoun ὑμεῖς ( Jumeis ) is used, making “you” in the translation emphatic.


text: Here δέ ( de ) has not been translated.


text: Here καί ( kai ) has been translated as “Then.”


text: Grk “And after instructing the crowds to recline for a meal on the grass, after taking the five loaves and the two fish, after looking up to heaven, he gave thanks, and after breaking the loaves he gave them to the disciples.” Although most of the participles are undoubtedly attendant circumstance, there are but two indicative verbs – “he gave thanks” and “he gave.” The structure of the sentence thus seems to focus on these two actions and has been translated accordingly.


text: Grk “to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds.”


text: Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Grk “The boat was already many stades from the land.” A stade ( στάδιον , stadion ) was a unit of distance about 607 feet (187 meters) long.


text: Grk “In the fourth watch of the night,” that is, between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.


text: Or “on the lake.”


text: Grk “on the sea”; or “on the lake.” The translation “water” has been used here for stylistic reasons (cf. the same phrase in v. 25 ).


text: sa bo). Although such additions are often suspect (due to liturgical influences, piety, or for the sake of clarity), in this case it is likely that ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς dropped out accidentally. Apart from a few albeit important witnesses, as noted above, the rest of the tradition has either ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς αὐτοῖς ( Jo Ihsous autois ) or αὐτοῖς ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ( autois Jo Ihsous ). In uncial letters, with Jesus’ name as a nomen sacrum , this would have been written as autoisois_ or ois_autois . Thus homoioteleuton could explain the reason for the omission of Jesus’ name.


text: Grk “he said to them, saying.” The participle λέγων ( legwn ) is redundant and has not been translated.


text: Grk “answering him, Peter said.” The participle ἀποκριθείς ( apokriqeis ) is redundant and has not been translated.


text: Grk “he cried out, saying.” The participle λέγων ( legwn ) is redundant and has not been translated.


text: Grk “men”; the word here ( ἀνήρ , anhr ) usually indicates males or husbands, but occasionally is used in a generic sense of people in general, as here (cf. BDAG 79 s.v. 1 .a, 2).


text: Grk “asked that they might touch.”