Luke 1:63

1:63 He 1  asked for a writing tablet 2  and wrote, 3  “His name is John.” And they were all amazed. 4 

Luke 6:30

6:30 Give to everyone who asks you, 5  and do not ask for your possessions 6  back 7  from the person who takes them away.

Luke 11:10-11

11:10 For everyone who asks 8  receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door 9  will be opened. 11:11 What father among you, if your 10  son asks for 11  a fish, will give him a snake 12  instead of a fish?

Luke 23:23

23:23 But they were insistent, 13  demanding with loud shouts that he be crucified. And their shouts prevailed.

1 tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

2 sn The writing tablet requested by Zechariah would have been a wax tablet.

3 tn Grk “and wrote, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant is English and has not been translated.

4 sn The response, they were all amazed, expresses a mixture of surprise and reflection in this setting where they were so certain of what the child’s name would be.

5 sn Jesus advocates a generosity and a desire to meet those in dire need with the command give to everyone who asks you. This may allude to begging; giving alms was viewed highly in the ancient world (Matt 6:1-4; Deut 15:7-11).

6 tn Grk “your things,” sometimes translated “what is yours” or “what belongs to you.”

7 sn Do not ask for your possessions back… is an example of showing forgiveness. Paul’s remarks in 1 Cor 6:7 may reflect this principle.

9 sn The actions of asking, seeking, and knocking are repeated here from v. 9 with the encouragement that God does respond.

10 tn Grk “it”; the referent (a door) is implied by the context and has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

14 tc Most mss (א A C D L W Θ Ψ Ë1,13 33 Ï lat syc,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 Ì45,75 B 1241 pc sys sa.

15 sn The snake probably refers to a water snake.

17 tn Though a different Greek term is used here (BDAG 373 s.v. ἐπίκειμαι), this remark is like 23:5.