14:12 He 6 said also to the man 7 who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, 8 don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.
1 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the resultative action.
2 tn The participle ἀπέχοντος (apeconto") has been taken temporally.
3 sn See the note on the word centurion in 7:2.
4 tn Or “do not be bothered.”
5 sn Note the humility in the centurion’s statement I am not worthy in light of what others think (as v. 4 notes). See Luke 5:8 for a similar example of humility.
6 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
7 sn That is, the leader of the Pharisees (v. 1).
8 tn The meaning of the two terms for meals here, ἄριστον (ariston) and δεῖπνον (deipnon), essentially overlap (L&N 23.22). Translators usually try to find two terms for a meal to use as equivalents (e.g., lunch and dinner, dinner and supper, etc.). In this translation “dinner” and “banquet” have been used, since the expected presence of rich neighbors later in the verse suggests a rather more elaborate occasion than an ordinary meal.