Luke 1:30

1:30 So ¹  the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, ²  Mary, for you have found favor ³  with God!

Luke 11:10

11:10 For everyone who asks ⁴  receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door ⁵  will be opened.

Luke 12:38

12:38 Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night ⁶  and finds them alert, ⁷  blessed are those slaves! ⁸ 

Luke 12:43

12:43 Blessed is that slave ⁹  whom his master finds at work ¹⁰  when he returns.

Luke 19:48

19:48 but ¹¹  they could not find a way to do it, ¹²  for all the people hung on his words. ¹³ 

Luke 22:45

22:45 When ¹⁴  he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, exhausted ¹⁵  from grief.

Luke 23:4

23:4 Then ¹⁶  Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no basis for an accusation ¹⁷  against this man.”

[1:30]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate that Gabriel’s statement is a response to Mary’s perplexity over the greeting.

[1:30]  ² sn Do not be afraid. See 1:13 for a similar statement to Zechariah.

[1:30]  ³ tn Or “grace.”

[11:10]  ⁴ sn The actions of asking, seeking, and knocking are repeated here from v. 9 with the encouragement that God does respond.

[11:10]  ⁵ tn Grk “it”; the referent (a door) is implied by the context and has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:38]  ⁷ sn The second or third watch of the night would be between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. on a Roman schedule and 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. on a Jewish schedule. Luke uses the four-watch schedule of the Romans in Acts 12:4, so that is more probable here. Regardless of the precise times of the watches, however, it is clear that the late-night watches when a person is least alert are in view here.

[12:38]  ⁸ tn Grk “finds (them) thus”; but this has been clarified in the translation by referring to the status (“alert”) mentioned in v. 37.

[12:38]  ⁹ tn Grk “blessed are they”; the referent (the watchful slaves, v. 37) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:43]  ¹⁰ tn See the note on the word “slave” in 7:2.

[12:43]  ¹¹ tn That is, doing his job, doing what he is supposed to be doing.

[19:48]  ¹³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[19:48]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “they did not find the thing that they might do.”

[19:48]  ¹⁵ sn All the people hung on his words is an idiom for intent, eager listening. Jesus’ popularity and support made it unwise for the leadership to seize him.

[22:45]  ¹⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[22:45]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “from grief.” The word “exhausted” is not in the Greek text, but is implied; the disciples have fallen asleep from mental and emotional exhaustion resulting from their distress (see L&N 25.273; cf. TEV, NIV, NLT).

[23:4]  ¹⁹ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[23:4]  ²⁰ tn Grk “find no cause.”