Luke 1:27

1:27 to a virgin engaged ¹  to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of David, ²  and the virgin’s name was Mary.

Luke 11:6

11:6 because a friend of mine has stopped here while on a journey, ³  and I have nothing to set before ⁴  him.’

Luke 11:11

11:11 What father among you, if your ⁵  son asks for ⁶  a fish, will give him a snake ⁷  instead of a fish?

Luke 11:15

11:15 But some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, ⁸  the ruler ⁹  of demons, he casts out demons.”

Luke 12:6

12:6 Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies? ¹⁰  Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.

Luke 17:15

17:15 Then one of them, when he saw he was healed, turned back, praising ¹¹  God with a loud voice.

Luke 21:16

21:16 You will be betrayed even by parents, ¹²  brothers, relatives, ¹³  and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

¹ tn Or “promised in marriage.”

² tn Grk “Joseph, of the house of David.”

³ tn Grk “has come to me from the road.”

⁴ sn The background to the statement I have nothing to set before him is that in ancient Middle Eastern culture it was a matter of cultural honor to be a good host to visitors.

⁵ tn Grk “the”; in context the article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

⁶ tc Most mss (א A C D L W Θ Ψ Ë^1,13 33 Ï lat sy^c,p,h bo) have “bread, does not give him a stone instead, or” before “a fish”; the longer reading, however, looks like a harmonization to Matt 7:9. The shorter reading is thus preferred, attested by Ì^45,75 B 1241 pc sy^s sa.

⁷ sn The snake probably refers to a water snake.

⁷ tn Grk “By Beelzebul.”

⁸ tn Or “prince.”

⁹ sn The pennies refer to the assarion, a small Roman copper coin. One of them was worth one sixteenth of a denarius or less than a half hour’s average wage. Sparrows were the cheapest thing sold in the market. God knows about even the most financially insignificant things; see Isa 49:15.

¹¹ tn Grk “glorifying God.”

¹³ sn To confess Christ might well mean rejection by one’s own family, even by parents.

¹⁴ tn Grk “and brothers and relatives,” but καί (kai) has not been translated twice here since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.