1 Raja-raja 10:1

Solomon Entertains a Queen

10:1 When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, ¹  she came to challenge ²  him with difficult questions. ³ 

Yohanes 6:6

6:6 (Now Jesus ⁴  said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.) ⁵ 

Yohanes 16:12

16:12 “I have many more things to say to you, ⁶  but you cannot bear ⁷  them now.

Yohanes 16:2

16:2 They will put you out of ⁸  the synagogue, ⁹  yet a time ¹⁰  is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God. ¹¹ 

Pengkhotbah 3:16

The Problem of Injustice and Oppression

3:16 I saw something else on earth: ¹² 

In the place of justice, there was wickedness,

and in the place of fairness, ¹³  there was wickedness.

[10:1]  ¹ tn Heb “the report about Solomon.” The Hebrew text also has, “to the name of the Lord,” which fits very awkwardly in the sentence. If retained, perhaps it should be translated, “because of the reputation of the Lord.” The phrase, which is omitted in the parallel passage in 2 Chr 9:1, may be an addition based on the queen’s declaration of praise to the Lord in v. 9.

[10:1]  ² tn Or “test.”

[10:1]  ³ tn Or “riddles.”

[6:6]  ⁴ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:6]  ⁵ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[16:12]  ⁶ sn In what sense does Jesus have many more things to say to the disciples? Does this imply the continuation of revelation after his departure? This is probably the case, especially in light of v. 13 and following, which describe the work of the Holy Spirit in guiding the disciples into all truth. Thus Jesus was saying that he would continue to speak (to the twelve, at least) after his return to the Father. He would do this through the Holy Spirit whom he was going to send. It is possible that an audience broader than the twelve is addressed, and in the Johannine tradition there is evidence that later other Christians (or perhaps, professed Christians) claimed to be recipients of revelation through the Spirit-Paraclete (1 John 4:1-6).

[16:12]  ⁷ tn Or (perhaps) “you cannot accept.”

[16:2]  ⁸ tn Or “expel you from.”

[16:2]  ⁹ sn See the note on synagogue in 6:59.

[16:2]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “an hour.”

[16:2]  ¹¹ sn Jesus now refers not to the time of his return to the Father, as he has frequently done up to this point, but to the disciples’ time of persecution. They will be excommunicated from Jewish synagogues. There will even be a time when those who kill Jesus’ disciples will think that they are offering service to God by putting the disciples to death. Because of the reference to service offered to God, it is almost certain that Jewish opposition is intended here in both cases rather than Jewish opposition in the first instance (putting the disciples out of synagogues) and Roman opposition in the second (putting the disciples to death). Such opposition materializes later and is recorded in Acts: The stoning of Stephen in 7:58-60 and the slaying of James the brother of John by Herod Agrippa I in Acts 12:2-3 are notable examples.

[3:16]  ¹² tn Heb “under the sun.”

[3:16]  ¹³ tn Or “righteousness.”