Luke 19:4

19:4 So ¹  he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree ²  to see him, because Jesus ³  was going to pass that way.

Luke 9:5

9:5 Wherever ⁴  they do not receive you, ⁵  as you leave that town, ⁶  shake the dust off ⁷  your feet as a testimony against them.”

Luke 15:15

15:15 So he went and worked for ⁸  one of the citizens of that country, who ⁹  sent him to his fields to feed pigs. ¹⁰ 

Luke 6:49

6:49 But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice ¹¹  is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When ¹²  the river burst against that house, ¹³  it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!” ¹⁴ 

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of Zacchaeus not being able to see over the crowd.

² sn A sycamore tree would have large branches near the ground like an oak tree and would be fairly easy to climb. These trees reach a height of some 50 ft (about 15 m).

³ tn Grk “that one”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Grk “And wherever.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

⁵ tn Grk “all those who do not receive you.”

⁶ tn Or “city.”

⁷ sn To shake the dust off represented shaking off the uncleanness from one’s feet; see Luke 10:11; Acts 13:51; 18:6. It was a sign of rejection.

⁷ tn Grk “joined himself to” (in this case an idiom for beginning to work for someone).

⁸ tn Grk “and he.” Here the conjunction καί (kai) and the personal pronoun have been translated by a relative pronoun to improve the English style.

⁹ sn To a Jew, being sent to the field to feed pigs would be an insult, since pigs were considered unclean animals (Lev 11:7).

¹⁰ tn Grk “does not do [them].”

¹¹ tn Grk “against which”; because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the relative clause was converted to a temporal clause in the translation and a new sentence started here.

¹² tn Grk “it”; the referent (that house) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Grk “and its crash was great.”