Text -- Luke 17:8 (NET)

17:8 Won’t the master instead say to him, ‘Get my dinner ready, and make yourself ready to serve me while I eat and drink. Then you may eat and drink’?

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Luk 17:8

¹ tn The question includes a Greek particle, οὐχί (ouci), that expects a positive reply. The slave is expected to prepare a meal before eating himself.

² tn Grk “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Grk “and gird yourself” (with an apron or towel, in preparation for service).

⁴ tn BDAG 423 s.v. ἕως 2.b, “to denote contemporaneousness as long as, while… w. subjunctive… Lk 17:8.”

⁵ tn Grk “after these things.”