The story of David being welcomed back ended poorly with arguments. Bicri attempted to mount a revolt. He died even though surrounded by his clan members because there was a wise woman in the town where he had taken refuge. Before that, David had decided to promote national reconciliation by appointing Amasa as military commander. But Joab, who had grown too powerful, shamefully put an end to Amasa's career.
https://www.bible.com/bible/68/2sa.21.nlt
Psalm 118 is an antiphonal psalm. Imagine a leader and all the congregation saying the refrain. One of the most often quoted verses about the Messiah is found in verse 22. And I have quoted verse 23 at the beginning of a number of podcasts.
Translation note:
7Yes, the LORD is [on my side//for me]; he will help me.
I will look in triumph at those who hate me.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/psa.118
In John chapter 2, John begins to tell us what Jesus was like. He was able to enter in fully in a wedding feast, he was stern about not turning the temple into a marketplace, and he miraculously knew about people. Verse 4, where Jesus first responds to his mother, is very hard to translate. Literally he called her, “Woman.” If you called your mother or wife ‘woman’ it would not be polite. We can tell from other places in the New Testament— such as John 19:26, that Jesus was not being impolite. I agree with translations that leave ‘woman’ untranslated. There seems no good way to do this in English. NLT softens this by saying, “Dear woman,” but that seems unnatural, perhaps soppy, and it still seems inappropriate for talking to Mary.
Translation notes:
24But Jesus didn’t trust them, because he knew [all people//human nature].
I believe that John is telling us something miraculous about Jesus here. He wasn’t just a good student of ‘human nature’! He actually knew everyone, just like he knew the Samaritan woman whom we will hear about.
25No one needed to tell him what [anyone was//mankind is] really like.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/jhn.2
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