Footnotes

1. Revelation 2:9 tn Or “know your suffering.” This could refer to suffering or distress caused by persecution (see L&N 22.2).
2. Revelation 2:9 tn Because of the length and complexity of this Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the phrase “I also know” to link this English sentence back to “I know” at the beginning of the verse.
3. Revelation 2:9 tn The words “against you” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.
4. Revelation 2:9 sn A synagogue was a place for Jewish prayer and worship, with recognized leadership (e.g., Mt 4:23, Mk 1:21, Lk 4:15, Jn 6:59).
5. Revelation 2:10 tn Grk “is about to throw some of you,” but the force is causative in context.
6. Revelation 2:10 tn Or “tempted.”
7. Revelation 2:10 tn Or “experience persecution,” “will be in distress” (see L&N 22.2).
8. Revelation 2:10 tn Grk “crown of life,” with the genitive “of life” (τῆς ζωῆς, tēs zōēs) functioning in apposition to “crown” (στέφανον, stephanon): “the crown that consists of life.”
9. Revelation 2:11 tn Or “who is victorious”; traditionally, “who overcomes.”