Chief abbreviations
av – The Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible (1611)
BAGD – Walter Bauer, A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, translated and adapted by William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich, 2nd edition, revised and augmented by F. Wilbur Gingrich and Frederick W. Danker from Bauer’s 5th edition, 1958 (University of Chicago Press, 1979)
BC – The Beginnings of Christianity, Part 1: The Acts of the Apostles, 5 volumes, ed. F. J. Foakes-Jackson and Kirsopp Lake (Macmillan: vol. 1, 1920; vol. 2, 1922; vol. 3, 1926; vols. 4 and 5, 1932; Baker reprint, 1979)
GT – A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament by C. L. W. Grimm and J. H. Thayer (T. & T. Clark, 1901)
HDB – A Dictionary of the Bible, ed. James Hastings, 5 volumes (T. & T. Clark, 1898–1904)
jb – The Jerusalem Bible (1966)
jbp – The New Testament in Modern English by J. B. Phillips (Collins, 1958)
lxx – The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, 3rd century bc
neb – The New English Bible (NT 1961, 2nd edition 1970; OT 1970)
niv – The New International Version of the Bible, Anglicized Edition (1973, 1978, 1984, 2011)
nrsv – New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Anglicized Edition (1989, 1995)
rsv – The Revised Standard Version of the Bible (NT 1946, 2nd edition 1971; OT 1952)
TDNT – Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed. G. Kittel and G. Friedrich, translated into English by G. W. Bromiley, 10 volumes (Eerdmans, 1964–76)