translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: MAT

label: NET translator note

text: The object of the participle πειράζοντες ( peirazontes ) is not given in the Greek text but has been supplied here for clarity.


text: Grk “But answering, he said to them.” The construction has been simplified in the translation and δέ ( de ) has not been translated.


text: Or “red and gloomy” (L&N 14.56).


text: Grk “The face of the sky you know how to discern.”


text: Here καί ( kai ) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.


text: Here δέ ( de ) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of Jesus’ saying about the Pharisees and Sadducees.


text: Or “becoming aware of it.”


text: Grk “Those of little faith.”


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


text: For location see Map1-C1 ; Map2-F4 .


text: Grk “he asked his disciples, saying.” The participle λέγων ( legwn ) is redundant and has been left untranslated.


text: Grk “And answering, Simon Peter said.”


text: Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.” sn See the note on Christ in 1:16 .


text: Grk “answering, Jesus said to him.” The participle ἀποκριθείς ( apokriqeis ) is redundant, but the syntax of this phrase has been modified for clarity.


text: The expression “flesh and blood” could refer to “any human being” (so TEV, NLT; cf. NIV “man”), but it could also refer to Peter himself (i.e., his own intuition; cf. CEV “You didn’t discover this on your own”). Because of the ambiguity of the referent, the phrase “flesh and blood” has been retained in the translation.


text: Or “and the power of death” (taking the reference to the gates of Hades as a metonymy). sn In the OT, Hades was known as Sheol . It is the place where the unrighteous will reside ( Matt 11:23 ; Luke 16:23 ; Rev 20:13-14 ). Some translations render this by its modern equivalent, “hell”; others see it as a reference to the power of death.


text: 565 700 1424 al it sa. Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.” sn See the note on Christ in 1:16 .


text: Grk “From then.”


text: For location see Map5-B1 ; Map6-F3 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-F2 ; Map10-B3 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: Or “and scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4 .


text: Grk “began to rebuke him, saying.” The participle λέγων ( legwn ) is redundant in English and has not been translated.


text: Grk “Merciful to you.” A highly elliptical expression: “May God be merciful to you in sparing you from having to undergo [some experience]” (L&N 88.78). A contemporary English equivalent is “God forbid!”


text: Grk “people.”


text: Grk “to come after me.”


text: 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.


text: Or “soul” (throughout vv. 25-26 ).


text: Grk “a man,” but ἄνθρωπος ( anqrwpo" ) is used in a generic sense here to refer to both men and women.


text: Grk “Truly ( ἀμήν , amhn ), I say to you.”


text: The Greek negative here ( οὐ μή , ou mh ) is the strongest possible.


text: Grk “will not taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).