translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: MRK

label: NET translator note

text: On this term see BDAG 140 s.v. ἄρωμα . The Jews did not practice embalming, so these materials were used to cover the stench of decay and slow decomposition. sn Spices were used not to preserve the body, but as an act of love, and to mask the growing stench of a corpse.


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


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


text: The verb here is passive ( ἠγέρθη , hgerqh ). This “divine passive” (see ExSyn 437-38) points to the fact that Jesus was raised by God.


text: Grk “they began to have trembling and bewilderment.”


text: Grk “tongues,” though the word is used figuratively (perhaps as a metonymy of cause for effect). To “speak in tongues” meant to “speak in a foreign language,” though one that was new to the one speaking it and therefore due to supernatural causes. For a discussion concerning whether such was a human language, heavenly language, or merely ecstatic utterance, see BDAG 201-2 s.v. γλῶσσα 2, 3; BDAG 399 s.v. ἕτερος 2; L&N 33.2-4; ExSyn 698; C. M. Robeck Jr., “Tongues,” DPL , 939-43.


text: For further comment on the nature of this statement, whether it is a promise or prediction, see ExSyn 403-6.