translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: MAT

label: NET translator note

text: Grk “And he.”


text: Grk “and every [kind of] sickness.” Here “every” was not repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.


text: 892 pc lat co) call him merely Θαδδαῖος ( Qaddaio" , “Thaddaeus”), a reading which, because of this support, is most likely correct.


text: Grk “the Cananean,” but according to both BDAG 507 s.v. Καναναῖος and L&N 11.88, this term has no relation at all to the geographical terms for Cana or Canaan, but is derived from the Aramaic term for “ enthusiast, zealot ” (see Luke 6:15 ; Acts 1:13 ), possibly because of an earlier affiliation with the party of the Zealots. He may not have been technically a member of the particular Jewish nationalistic party known as “Zealots” (since according to some scholars this party had not been organized at that time), but simply someone who was zealous for Jewish independence from Rome, in which case the term would refer to his temperament.


text: Grk “who even betrayed him.”


text: Grk “instructing them, saying.”


text: Grk “on the road of the Gentiles.” That is, a path that leads to Gentile regions.


text: Grk “town [or city] of the Samaritans.”


text: Grk “But go.” The Greek μᾶλλον ( mallon , “rather, instead”) conveys the adversative nuance here so that δέ ( de ) has not been translated.


text: 33 565 al lat; P W Δ 348 have a word-order variation, but nevertheless include νεκροὺς ἐγείρετε . Although some Byzantine-text proponents charge the Alexandrian witnesses with theologically-motivated alterations toward heterodoxy, it is interesting to find a variant such as this in which the charge could be reversed (do the Byzantine scribes have something against the miracle of resurrection?). In reality, such charges of wholesale theologically-motivated changes toward heterodoxy are immediately suspect due to lack of evidence of intentional changes (here the change is evidently due to accidental omission).


text: Or “no traveler’s bag”; or possibly “no beggar’s bag” (L&N 6.145; BDAG 811 s.v. πήρα ).


text: Grk “two tunics.” See the note on the word “tunic” in Matt 5:40 .


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


text: Grk “Into whatever town or village you enter.” This acts as a distributive, meaning every town or village they enter; this is expressed more naturally in English as “whenever you enter a town or village.”


text: Grk “in it” (referring to the city or village).


text: Grk “there.” This was translated as “with them” to avoid redundancy in English and to clarify where the disciples were to stay. sn Jesus telling his disciples to stay with them in one house contrasts with the practice of religious philosophers in the ancient world who went from house to house begging.


text: This is a metonymy; the “house” is put for those who live in it.


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


text: Grk “Behold I.” 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: BDAG 620 s.v. μαστιγόω 1.a states, “of flogging as a punishment decreed by the synagogue ( Dt 25:2 f; s. the Mishna Tractate Sanhedrin-Makkoth, edited w. notes by SKrauss ’33) w. acc. of pers. Mt 10:17; 23:34 .”


text: Grk “how or what you might speak.”


text: Grk “in that hour.”


text: Or “will rebel against.”


text: The Greek word here is πόλις ( polis ), which can mean either “town” or “city.”


text: Grk “For truly ( ἀμήν , amhn ) I say to you.” Here γάρ ( gar , “for”) has not been translated.


text: The Greek word here is πόλις ( polis ), which can mean either “town” or “city.” “Town” was chosen here to emphasize the extensive nature of the disciples’ ministry. The same word is translated earlier in the verse as “place.”


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


text: Grk “Therefore do not.” Here οὖν ( oun ) has not been translated.


text: Or “concealed.”


text: Grk “what you hear in the ear,” an idiom.


text: The expression “proclaim from the housetops” is an idiom for proclaiming something publicly (L&N 7.51). Roofs of many first century Jewish houses in Judea and Galilee were flat and had access either from outside or from within the house. Something shouted from atop a house would be heard by everyone in the street below.


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


text: Or “to the ground without the knowledge and consent of your Father.”


text: Or “confesses.”


text: Grk “I will acknowledge him also.” sn This acknowledgment will take place at the judgment. On Jesus and judgment, see Luke 22:69 ; Acts 10:42-43; 17:31 .


text: Grk “cast.” For βάλλω ( ballw ) in the sense of causing a state or condition, see L&N 13.14.


text: Matt 10:35-36 are an allusion to Mic 7:6 .


text: Grk “his soul,” but ψυχή ( yuch ) is frequently used of one’s physical life. It clearly has that meaning in this context.


text: Or “for my sake.” The traditional rendering “for my sake” can be understood in the sense of “for my benefit,” but the Greek term ἕνεκα indicates the cause or reason for something (BDAG 334 s.v. 1 ).


text: Grk “And whoever.” Here καί ( kai ) has not been translated.


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