Daniel 7:10

7:10 A river of fire was streaming forth

and proceeding from his presence.

Many thousands were ministering to him;

Many tens of thousands stood ready to serve him. ¹ 

The court convened ² 

and the books were opened.

Matius 16:27

16:27 For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. ³ 

Matius 24:30-31

24:30 Then ⁴  the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, ⁵  and ⁶  all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They ⁷  will see the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven ⁸  with power and great glory. 24:31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven ⁹  to the other.

Matius 25:31

The Judgment

25:31 “When ¹⁰  the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

Matius 26:64

26:64 Jesus said to him, “You have said it yourself. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand ¹¹  of the Power ¹²  and coming on the clouds of heaven.” ¹³ 

Matius 26:2

26:2 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over ¹⁴  to be crucified.” ¹⁵ 

Matius 1:8-10

1:8 Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Uzziah, 1:9 Uzziah the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, 1:10 Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, ¹⁶  Amon the father of Josiah,

Yudas 1:14

1:14 Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, ¹⁷  even prophesied of them, ¹⁸  saying, “Look! The Lord is coming ¹⁹  with thousands and thousands ²⁰  of his holy ones,

Wahyu 1:7

1:7 (Look! He is returning with the clouds, ²¹ 

and every eye will see him,

even ²²  those who pierced him, ²³ 

and all the tribes ²⁴  on the earth will mourn because ²⁵  of him.

This will certainly come to pass! ²⁶  Amen.) ²⁷ 

Wahyu 20:11

The Great White Throne

20:11 Then ²⁸  I saw a large ²⁹  white throne and the one who was seated on it; the earth and the heaven ³⁰  fled ³¹  from his presence, and no place was found for them.

[7:10]  ¹ tn Aram “were standing before him.”

[7:10]  ² tn Aram “judgment sat.”

[16:27]  ³ sn An allusion to Pss 28:4; 62:12; cf. Prov 24:12.

[24:30]  ⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[24:30]  ⁵ tn Or “in the sky”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context.

[24:30]  ⁶ tn Here τότε (tote, “then”) has not been translated to avoid redundancy in English.

[24:30]  ⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[24:30]  ⁸ sn An allusion to Dan 7:13. Here is Jesus returning with full authority to judge.

[24:31]  ⁹ tn Or “of the sky”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context.

[25:31]  ¹⁰ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[26:64]  ¹¹ sn An allusion to Ps 110:1. This is a claim that Jesus shares authority with God in heaven. Those present may have thought they were his judges, but, in fact, the reverse was true.

[26:64]  ¹² sn The expression the right hand of the Power is a circumlocution for referring to God. Such indirect references to God were common in 1st century Judaism out of reverence for the divine name.

[26:64]  ¹³ sn An allusion to Dan 7:13 (see also Matt 24:30).

[26:2]  ¹⁴ tn Or “will be delivered up.”

[26:2]  ¹⁵ sn See the note on crucified in 20:19.

[1:10]  ¹⁶ tc ᾿Αμώς (Amws) is the reading found in the earliest and best witnesses (א B C [D^luc] γ δ θ ˹ 33 pc it sa bo), and as such is most likely original, but this is a variant spelling of the name ᾿Αμών (Amwn). The translation uses the more well-known spelling “Amon” found in the Hebrew MT and the majority of LXX mss. See also the textual discussion of “Asa” versus “Asaph” (vv. 7-8); the situation is similar.

[1:14]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “the seventh from Adam.”

[1:14]  sn The genealogical count is inclusive, counting Adam as the first, for Enoch is really the sixth in descent from Adam (Adam, Seth, Enosh, Cainan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch). In this way, the picture of perfection/completion was retained (for the number seven is often used for perfection or completion in the Bible) starting with Adam and concluding with Enoch.

[1:14]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “against them.” The dative τούτοις (toutois) is a dativus incommodi (dative of disadvantage).

[1:14]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “has come,” a proleptic aorist.

[1:14]  ²⁰ tn Grk “ten thousands.” The word μυριάς (muria"), from which the English myriad is derived, means “ten thousand.” In the plural it means “ten thousands.” This would mean, minimally, 20,000 (a multiple of ten thousand). At the same time, the term was often used in apocalyptic literature to represent simply a rather large number, without any attempt to be specific.

[1:7]  ²¹ sn An allusion to Dan 7:13.

[1:7]  ²² tn Here καί (kai) was translated as ascensive.

[1:7]  ²³ sn An allusion to Zech 12:10.

[1:7]  ²⁴ tn In this context, tribes (φυλαί, fulai) could also be translated as “nations” or “peoples” (L&N 11.56).

[1:7]  ²⁵ tn The conjunction ἐπί (epi) is most likely causal here. The people who crucified him are those of every tribe on the earth and they will mourn because he comes as judge.

[1:7]  ²⁶ tn Grk “Yes, Amen.” The expression “This will certainly come to pass” is an attempt to capture the force of the juxtaposition of the Greek ναί (nai) and the Hebrew ἀμήν (amhn). See L&N 69.1.

[1:7]  ²⁷ sn These lines are placed in parentheses because they form an aside to the main argument.

[20:11]  ²⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

[20:11]  ²⁹ tn Traditionally, “great,” but μέγας (megas) here refers to size rather than importance.

[20:11]  ³⁰ tn Or “and the sky.” The same Greek word means both “heaven” and “sky,” and context usually determines which is meant. In this apocalyptic scene, however, it is difficult to be sure what referent to assign the term.

[20:11]  ³¹ tn Or “vanished.”

[20:11]  sn The phrase the earth and the heaven fled from his presence can be understood (1) as visual imagery representing the fear of corruptible matter in the presence of God, but (2) it can also be understood more literally as the dissolution of the universe as we know it in preparation for the appearance of the new heaven and new earth (Rev 21:1).