Luke 9:41-42

9:41 Jesus answered, ¹  “You ²  unbelieving ³  and perverse generation! How much longer ⁴  must I be with you and endure ⁵  you? ⁶  Bring your son here.” 9:42 As ⁷  the boy ⁸  was approaching, the demon threw him to the ground ⁹  and shook him with convulsions. ¹⁰  But Jesus rebuked ¹¹  the unclean ¹²  spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

¹ tn Grk “And answering, Jesus said.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified to “Jesus answered.” Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

² tn Grk “O.” The marker of direct address, ὦ (w), is functionally equivalent to a vocative and is represented in the translation by “you.”

³ tn Or “faithless.”

⁴ tn Grk “how long.”

⁵ tn Or “and put up with.” See Num 11:12; Isa 46:4.

⁶ sn The pronouns you…you are plural, indicating that Jesus is speaking to a group rather than an individual.

⁷ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁸ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the boy) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ sn At this point the boy was thrown down in another convulsion by the demon. See L&N 23.168.

¹⁰ 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.”

¹¹ tn Or “commanded” (often with the implication of a threat, L&N 33.331).

¹² sn This is a reference to an evil spirit. See Luke 4:33.