Luke 2:30

2:30 For my eyes have seen your salvation ¹ 

Luke 2:20

2:20 So ²  the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising ³  God for all they had heard and seen; everything was just as they had been told. ⁴ 

Luke 24:24

24:24 Then ⁵  some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.” ⁶ 

Luke 9:32

9:32 Now Peter and those with him were quite sleepy, ⁷  but as they became fully awake, ⁸  they saw his glory and the two men standing with him.

Luke 19:37

19:37 As he approached the road leading down from ⁹  the Mount of Olives, ¹⁰  the whole crowd of his ¹¹  disciples began to rejoice ¹²  and praise ¹³  God with a loud voice for all the mighty works ¹⁴  they had seen: ¹⁵ 

¹ sn To see Jesus, the Messiah, is to see God’s salvation.

² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the conclusion of the topic.

³ sn The mention of glorifying and praising God is the second note of praise in this section; see Luke 2:13-14.

⁴ tn Grk “just as [it] had been spoken to them.” This has been simplified in the English translation by making the prepositional phrase (“to them”) the subject of the passive verb.

³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁴ tn Here the pronoun αὐτόν (auton), referring to Jesus, is in an emphatic position. The one thing they lacked was solid evidence that he was alive.

⁴ tn Grk “weighed down with sleep” (an idiom).

⁵ tn Or “after they became fully awake,” “but they became fully awake and saw.”

⁵ tn Grk “the descent of”; this could refer to either the slope of the hillside itself or the path leading down from it (the second option has been adopted for the translation, see L&N 15.109).

⁶ sn See the note on the name Mount of Olives in v. 29.

⁷ tn Grk “the”; the Greek article has been translated here as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

⁸ tn Here the participle χαίροντες (caironte") has been translated as a finite verb in English; it could also be translated adverbially as a participle of manner: “began to praise God joyfully.”

⁹ sn See 2:13, 20; Acts 2:47; 3:8-9.

¹⁰ tn Or “works of power,” “miracles.” Jesus’ ministry of miracles is what has drawn attention. See Luke 7:22.

¹¹ tn Grk “they had seen, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.