Introducing the Unitarian Standard Version Bible
References Used in the Unitarian Standard Version
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1 At that season Herod the
tetrarch(a) heard the report concerning Jesus, 2 and
said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen
from the dead; and therefore do these powers work in him. 3
For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him
aside in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip`s
wife. 4 For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to
have her(b). 5 And when he would have put him to death,
he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a
prophet. 6 But when Herod`s birthday(c) came, the
daughter(d) of Herodias danced in the midst, and
pleased Herod. 7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give
her whatsoever she should ask. 8 And she, being put forward by
her mother, saith, Give me here on a platter the head of John
the Baptist. 9 And the king was grieved; because of
his oaths, and of them that sat to eat(e) with him, he
commanded it to be given; 10 and he sent and beheaded John in
the prison. 11 And his head(f) was brought on a
platter, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her
mother. 12 And his disciples came, and took up the corpse, and
buried him; and they went and told Jesus.
13 Now when Jesus heard [it], he withdrew from there in a
boat, to a desert place apart: and when the multitudes heard
[thereof,] they followed him on foot from the cities. 14 And
he(g) came forth, and saw a great multitude, and he had
compassion on them, and healed their sick. 15 And when evening
was come, the disciples came to him, saying, The place is
desert, and the time is already past; send the multitudes
away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves
food. 16 But [Jesus] said unto them, They have no need to go
away; give ye them [something] to eat. 17 And they say unto
him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. 18 And he
said, Bring them here to me. 19 And he commanded the
multitudes to sit down on the grass; he took the five
loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he
blessed, and brake and gave the loaves to the disciples, and
the disciples to the multitudes. 20 And they all ate, and were
filled: and they took up that which remained over of the
broken pieces, twelve baskets full. 21 And they that did eat
were about five thousand(h) men, besides women and
children.
22 And straightway he constrained the disciples to enter into
the boat, and to go before him unto the other side, till he
should send the multitudes away. 23 And after he had sent the
multitudes away, he went up into the mountain apart to pray:
and when evening was come, he was there alone. 24 But the boat
was now already many furlongs from the land,
distressed by the waves; for the wind was contrary. 25 And in
the fourth watch of the night he came unto them, walking upon
the sea. 26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea,
they were troubled, saying, It is a ghost(i); and they
cried out for fear. 27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them,
saying Be of good cheer; it is I(j); be not afraid. 28
And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me
come unto the upon the waters. 29 And he said, Come. And Peter
went down from the boat, and walked upon the waters to
come to Jesus. 30 But when he saw the [strong]
wind, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried out,
saying, Lord, save me. 31 And immediately Jesus stretched
forth his hand, and took hold of him, and saith unto him, O
thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? 32 And when
they were gone up into the boat, the wind ceased. 33 And they
that were in the boat paid homage(k) to him, saying,
Of a truth thou art God's Son(l).
34 And when they had crossed
over, they came to the land, unto Gennesaret. 35 And when the
men of that place knew him, they sent into all that region
round about, and brought unto him all that were sick, 36 and
they besought him that they might only touch the border of his
garment: and as many as touched were made whole.
Footnotes
(a) "Tetrarch - King
of a fourth part of his father's dominions."~John Wesley's
Notes on the Bible. AT has "governor"; NWT has "district
ruler"; Riverside NT and NEB has "Prince." GNT has "ruler of Galilee."
(b) "Mark (vi. 18) says 'It is not
lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife,' which last words
constitute the ground of objection."~Edward Williams B.
Nicholson, A New Commentary on the Gospel According to
Matthew, Volume 1, 1881
(c) Birthdays in the Bible were always associated with
death (Genesis 40).
(d) According to Josephus, her name was Salome.
(e) ASV: "sat at meat"
(f) It is said that no fewer than four locations lay
claim to John the Baptist's head. The Umayyad Mosque in
Damascus, Syria was built in the eighth century A.D. on the
site of a church named for John the Baptist; his head is said
to be buried in a shrine there. The Church of San Silvestro in
Capite in Rome houses a skull identified as the head of John
the Baptist. A Crusader brought back John's head from
Constantinople in 1206 to a cathedral in Amiens, France. And
in Munich, Germany, the Residenz Museum includes the skull of
John the Baptist.
(g) The KJV, TR, MT and NIV have Jesus
here instead of "he".
(h) The "Feeding of the 5,000", is
the only miracle—aside from the resurrection—recorded in all
four gospels (Mark 6:31-44; Luke 9:12-17; John 6:1-14).
(i) It has always struck me that Jesus
never corrected their ghostly superstition.
(j) The words used in the Greek here are EGW
EIMI/ego eimi, and they are used merely as an
identifier, not as a statement of Deity.
(k) The KJV and ASV and most
Protestant Bibles have "worshipped" here. Thayer's Lexicon has "to fall upon the knees
and touch the ground with the forehead as an expression of
profound reverence...hence, in the N. T. by kneeling or
prostration to do homage (to one) or make obeisance, whether
in order to express respect or to make supplication. It is
used a. of homage shown to men of superior rank." BDAG has
"Freq. used to designate the custom of prostrating oneself
before persons and kissing their feet or the hem of their
garment, the ground, etc...to express in attitude or gesture
one’s complete dependence on or submission to a high authority
figure, (fall down and) worship, do obeisance to, prostrate
oneself before, do reverence to, welcome respectfully"
Hence, at this Scripture, many Bibles use
words other than "worship" here, i.e. "fall down", "paid
homage", etc. (See REB, REV, NEB, NAB, NJB, Darby, Weymouth,
Rotherham, NWT, Goodspeed etc).
(l) The ASV has "thou art the Son of
God" here. "In Matt. xiv. 33, the simple translation would be,
'Of a truth thou art a son of God.' The Revisers follow the
Authorized Version, thou art the Son of God, giving no
indication that the noun has no article in the Greek. Compare
with this, Mark xv. 39, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God,'
and the parallel text in Matt. xxvii. 54, with the marginal
note, 'or, a son of God, the Greek being the
same in each case."~Henry Ierson, Notes on the Amended English
Bible, 1887
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