Luke 1:53

1:53 he has filled the hungry with good things, ¹  and has sent the rich away empty. ² 

Luke 20:11

20:11 So ³  he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed. ⁴ 

Luke 20:10

20:10 When harvest time came, he sent a slave ⁵  to the tenants so that they would give ⁶  him his portion of the crop. ⁷  However, the tenants beat his slave ⁸  and sent him away empty-handed.

¹ sn Good things refers not merely to material blessings, but blessings that come from knowing God.

² sn Another fundamental contrast of Luke’s is between the hungry and the rich (Luke 6:20-26).

³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the tenants’ mistreatment of the first slave.

⁴ sn The slaves being sent empty-handed suggests that the vineyard was not producing any fruit – and thus neither was the nation of Israel.

⁵ sn This slave (along with the next two) represent the prophets God sent to the nation, who were mistreated and rejected.

⁶ tc Instead of the future indicative δώσουσιν (dwsousin, “they will give”), most witnesses (C D W Θ Ψ Ë¹ Ï) have the aorist subjunctive δῶσιν (dwsin, “they might give”). The aorist subjunctive is expected following ἵνα ({ina, “so that”), so it is almost surely a motivated reading. Further, early and excellent witnesses, as well as a few others (א A B ˹³ 33 579 1241 2542 al), have δώσουσιν. It is thus more likely that the future indicative is authentic. For a discussion of this construction, see BDF §369.2.

⁷ tn Grk “from the fruit of the vineyard.”

⁸ tn Grk “him”; the referent (the slave sent by the owner) has been specified in the translation for clarity.