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NASB | Mark 10:30 but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 10:30 who will not receive a hundred times as much now in the present age--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms--along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life. |
Bible Question: This is just a tidbit of a question, but could someone pleeeeease explain to me the grammar the NASB uses in Mark 10:29-30, particularly the use of the words 'but that' joining the two verses? I probably just don't understand the English device being used. |
Bible Answer: One of the problems in the construction of this passage stems from the use of the double negative. In Mark 10:29 Jesus said "there is no one who has left house...." and in 10:30 says "but that he will receive (or, "who shall not receive" as the NKJV puts it). The NIV reads, "no one who has left home....will fail to receive." We could say "everyone who has left home.....will receive" without essentially corrupting the meaning, but we would lose something of the dramatic effect of the double negative that may have been intended in the original language. The phrase "but that" in the NASB could also be read "except that" and the meaning would be about the same. Short, simple words in the English language can, and do, give us trouble from time to time. The word "but" for instance can be used as a conjunction, preposition, adverb, pronoun, and even as a noun. The little two-letter word "so" has more definitions than any other word in the English language!.....Your question, which you dubbed "just a tidbit" is far from being trivial or insignificant. Quite to the contrary. Minute attention to detail, someone has said, is the mark of genius. On the other hand, ignoring detail can lead to embarrassing, if not disasterous, situations. Some years ago in Boston at the Old North Church I saw a copy of what has come to be called the "Vinegar Bible.' On the page atop the passage in Matthew 20 about the parable of the vineyard, the heading read, "The Parable of the Vinegar." Someone had not paid close attention to detail! --Hank |
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