Luke 8:8

8:8 But ¹  other seed fell on good soil and grew, ²  and it produced a hundred times as much grain.” ³  As he said this, ⁴  he called out, “The one who has ears to hear had better listen!” ⁵ 

Luke 9:42

9:42 As ⁶  the boy ⁷  was approaching, the demon threw him to the ground ⁸  and shook him with convulsions. ⁹  But Jesus rebuked ¹⁰  the unclean ¹¹  spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in the final stage of the parable.

² tn Grk “when it grew, after it grew.”

³ sn Unlike the parallel accounts in Matt 13:8 and Mark 4:8, there is no distinction in yield in this version of the parable.

⁴ tn Grk “said these things.”

⁵ tn The translation “had better listen!” captures the force of the third person imperative more effectively than the traditional “let him hear,” which sounds more like a permissive than an imperative to the modern English reader. This was Jesus’ common expression to listen and heed carefully (cf. Matt 11:15; 13:9, 43; Mark 4:9, 23; Luke 14:35).

⁶ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the boy) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ sn At this point the boy was thrown down in another convulsion by the demon. See L&N 23.168.

⁹ tn See L&N 23.167-68, where the second verb συσπαράσσω (susparassw) is taken to mean the violent shaking associated with the convulsions, thus the translation here “and shook him with convulsions.”

¹⁰ tn Or “commanded” (often with the implication of a threat, L&N 33.331).

¹¹ sn This is a reference to an evil spirit. See Luke 4:33.