Luke 7:3

7:3 When the centurion ¹  heard ²  about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders ³  to him, asking him to come ⁴  and heal his slave.

Luke 14:9

14:9 So ⁵  the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, ⁶  you will begin to move to the least important ⁷  place.

Luke 15:17

15:17 But when he came to his senses ⁸  he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food ⁹  enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

Luke 19:23

19:23 Why then didn’t you put ¹⁰  my money in the bank, ¹¹  so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the centurion) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn The participle ἀκούσας (akousas) has been taken temporally.

³ sn Why some Jewish elders are sent as emissaries is not entirely clear, but the centurion was probably respecting ethnic boundaries, which were important in ancient Greco-Roman and Jewish culture. The parallel account in Matt 8:5-13 does not mention the emissaries.

⁴ tn The participle ἐλθών (elqwn) has been translated as an infinitive in parallel with διασώσῃ (diaswsh) due to requirements of contemporary English style.

⁵ tn Grk “host, and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate this action is a result of the situation described in the previous verse. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

⁶ tn Or “then in disgrace”; Grk “with shame.” In this culture avoiding shame was important.

⁷ tn Grk “lowest place” (also in the repetition of the phrase in the next verse).

⁹ tn Grk “came to himself” (an idiom).

¹⁰ tn Grk “bread,” but used figuratively for food of any kind (L&N 5.1).

¹³ tn That is, “If you really feared me why did you not do a minimum to get what I asked for?”

¹⁴ tn Grk “on the table”; the idiom refers to a place where money is kept or managed, or credit is established, thus “bank” (L&N 57.215).