NASB: What do the asterisks mean?
The NASB uses an asterisk in many passages. An example is found in Mark 2:5.
And Jesus seeing their faith *said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven."The meaning of the asterisks is found in the Front Matter of the NASB, in the section titled Explanations of General Format.
"Asterisks are used to mark verbs that are historical presents in the Greek which have been translated with an English past tense in order to conform to modern usage. The translators recognized that in some contexts the present tense seems more unexpected and unjustified to the English reader than a past tense would have been. But Greek authors frequently used the present tense for the sake of heightened vividness, thereby transporting their readers in imagination to the actual scene at the time of occurrence. However, the translators felt that it would be wise to change these historical presents to English past tenses."The front matter is not yet published within the MyBible NASB but can usually be found at the front of a hard copy NASB.
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