Text -- Luke 10:20 (NET)

10:20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names stand written in heaven.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Luk 10:20

¹ tn Grk “do not rejoice in this, that.” This is awkward in contemporary English and has been simplified to “do not rejoice that.”

² tn The verb here is a present imperative, so the call is to an attitude of rejoicing.

³ tn The verb here, a perfect tense, stresses a present reality of that which was a completed action, that is, their names were etched in the heavenly stone, as it were.