6:24 “But woe 1 to you who are rich, for you have received 2 your comfort 3 already.
21:1 Jesus 9 looked up 10 and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box. 11
1 sn Jesus promises condemnation (woe) to those who are callous of others, looking only to their own comforts. On Luke and the rich see 1:53; 12:16; 14:12; 16:1, 21-22; 18:23; 19:2; 21:1. These woes are unique to Luke.
2 sn Ironically the language of reward shows that what the rich have received is all they will get. This result looks at a current situation, just as the start of the beatitudes did. The rest of the conclusions to the woes look to the future at the time of judgment.
3 tn Grk “your consolation.”
4 tn Grk “And he.” Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the connection to the preceding statement.
5 tn Grk “a parable, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated here.
6 tn Or “yielded a plentiful harvest.”
7 tn Grk “he”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Or “very distressed” (L&N 25.277).
10 tn Grk “He”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
11 tn Grk “looking up, he saw.” The participle ἀναβλέψας (anableya") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
12 tn On the term γαζοφυλάκιον (gazofulakion), often translated “treasury,” see BDAG 186 s.v., which states, “For Mk 12:41, 43; Lk 21:1 the mng. contribution box or receptacle is attractive. Acc. to Mishnah, Shekalim 6, 5 there were in the temple 13 such receptacles in the form of trumpets. But even in these passages the general sense of ‘treasury’ is prob., for the contributions would go [into] the treasury via the receptacles.” Based upon the extra-biblical evidence (see sn following), however, the translation opts to refer to the actual receptacles and not the treasury itself.