Luke 1:25

1:25 “This is what ¹  the Lord has done for me at the time ²  when he has been gracious to me, ³  to take away my disgrace ⁴  among people.” ⁵ 

Luke 11:9

11:9 “So ⁶  I tell you: Ask, ⁷  and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door ⁸  will be opened for you.

Luke 14:1

Healing Again on the Sabbath

14:1 Now ⁹  one Sabbath when Jesus went to dine ¹⁰  at the house of a leader ¹¹  of the Pharisees, ¹²  they were watching ¹³  him closely.

Luke 21:4

21:4 For they all offered their gifts out of their wealth. ¹⁴  But she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had to live on.” ¹⁵ 

[1:25]  ¹ tn Grk “Thus.”

[1:25]  ² tn Grk “in the days.”

[1:25]  ³ tn Grk “has looked on me” (an idiom for taking favorable notice of someone).

[1:25]  ⁴ sn Barrenness was often seen as a reproach or disgrace (Lev 20:20-21; Jer 22:30), but now at her late age (the exact age is never given in Luke’s account), God had miraculously removed it (see also Luke 1:7).

[1:25]  ⁵ tn Grk “among men”; but the context clearly indicates a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") here.

[11:9]  ⁶ tn Here καί (kai, from καγώ [kagw]) has been translated as “so” to indicate the conclusion drawn from the preceding parable.

[11:9]  ⁷ sn The three present imperatives in this verse (Ask…seek…knock) are probably intended to call for a repeated or continual approach before God.

[11:9]  ⁸ tn Grk “it”; the referent (a door) is implied by the context and has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:1]  ¹¹ tn Grk “Now it happened that one.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

[14:1]  ¹² tn Grk “to eat bread,” an idiom for participating in a meal.

[14:1]  ¹³ tn Grk “a ruler of the Pharisees.” He was probably a synagogue official.

[14:1]  ¹⁴ sn See the note on Pharisees in 5:17.

[14:1]  ¹⁵ sn Watching…closely is a graphic term meaning to lurk and watch; see Luke 11:53-54.

[21:4]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “out of what abounded to them.”

[21:4]  ¹⁷ tn Or “put in her entire livelihood.”