translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: MAT

label: NET translator note

text: Grk “agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day.” sn The standard wage was a denarius a day. The denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wage for a laborer in Palestine in the 1st century.


text: Grk “about the third hour.”


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


text: Grk “he went out again about the sixth and ninth hour.”


text: Grk “about the eleventh hour.”


text: includes the pronoun on the basis of the greater external attestation.


text: Grk “each received a denarius.” See the note on the phrase “standard wage” in v. 2 .


text: The imperfect verb ἐγόγγυζον ( egonguzon ) has been translated ingressively.


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


text: Grk “And answering, he said to one of them.” This construction is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified in the translation.


text: Grk “for a denarius a day.”


text: Grk “this last one,” translated as “this last man” because field laborers in 1st century Palestine were men.


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


text: Grk “Is your eye evil because I am good?”


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


text: Traditionally, “scourged” (the term means to beat severely with a whip, L&N 19.9). BDAG 620 s.v. μαστιγόω 1.a states, “The ‘verberatio’ is denoted in the passion predictions and explicitly as action by non-Israelites Mt 20:19 ; Mk 10:34 ; Lk 18:33 ”; the verberatio was the beating given to those condemned to death in the Roman judicial system. Here the term μαστιγόω ( mastigow ) has been translated “flog…severely” to distinguish it from the term φραγελλόω ( fragellow ) used in Matt 27:26 ; Mark 15:15 .


text: Here καί ( kai ) has been translated as “yet” to indicate the contrast present in this context.


text: Grk “asked something from him.”


text: Grk “said to him.”


text: Grk “Say that.”


text: includes σου here.


text: Grk “And answering, Jesus said.” This is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation. Here δέ ( de ) has not been translated.


text: The verbs in Greek are plural here, indicating that Jesus is not answering the mother but has turned his attention directly to the two disciples.


text: pc lat, as well as other versional and patristic authorities).


label: NET textual note

text: See the tc note on “about to drink” in v. 22 .


text: Here καί ( kai ) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.


text: Grk “the ten.”


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


text: See the note on the word “slave” in 8:9 .


text: For location see Map5-B2 ; Map6-E1 ; Map7-E1 ; Map8-E3 ; Map10-A2 ; Map11-A1 .


text: Grk “And behold.” The Greek word ἰδού ( idou ) has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1 ).


text: Grk “shouted, saying.” The participle λέγοντες ( legontes ) is redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.


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


text: Or “rebuked.” The crowd’s view was that surely Jesus would not be bothered with someone as unimportant as a blind beggar.


text: has κύριε after ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς here; a majority of that committee felt that since the placement of κύριε in last place was the nonliturgical order it “would have been likely to be altered in transcription to the more familiar sequence” ( TCGNT 44).