Luke 1:62

1:62 So ¹  they made signs to the baby’s ²  father, ³  inquiring what he wanted to name his son. ⁴ 

Luke 15:12

15:12 The ⁵  younger of them said to his ⁶  father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate ⁷  that will belong ⁸  to me.’ So ⁹  he divided his ¹⁰  assets between them. ¹¹ 

Luke 9:42

9:42 As ¹²  the boy ¹³  was approaching, the demon threw him to the ground ¹⁴  and shook him with convulsions. ¹⁵  But Jesus rebuked ¹⁶  the unclean ¹⁷  spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Luke 12:53

12:53 They will be divided, ¹⁸  father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

Luke 15:29

15:29 but he answered ¹⁹  his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave ²⁰  for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet ²¹  you never gave me even a goat ²²  so that I could celebrate with my friends!

[1:62]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the consequential nature of the action described.

[1:62]  ² tn Grk “his”; the referent (the baby) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:62]  ³ sn The crowd was sure there had been a mistake, so they appealed to the child’s father. But custom was not to be followed here, since God had spoken. The fact they needed to signal him (made signs) shows that he was deaf as well as unable to speak.

[1:62]  ⁴ tn Grk “what he might wish to call him.”

[15:12]  ⁵ tn Grk “And the.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[15:12]  ⁶ tn Grk “the”; in context the article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[15:12]  ⁷ tn L&N 57.19 notes that in nonbiblical contexts in which the word οὐσία (ousia) occurs, it refers to considerable possessions or wealth, thus “estate.”

[15:12]  ⁸ tn L&N 57.3, “to belong to or come to belong to, with the possible implication of by right or by inheritance.”

[15:12]  ⁹ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the father’s response to the younger son’s request.

[15:12]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the”; in context the article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[15:12]  ¹¹ sn He divided his assets between them. There was advice against doing this in the OT Apocrypha (Sir 33:20). The younger son would get half of what the older son received (Deut 21:17).

[9:42]  ⁹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[9:42]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the boy) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:42]  ¹¹ sn At this point the boy was thrown down in another convulsion by the demon. See L&N 23.168.

[9:42]  ¹² 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.”

[9:42]  ¹³ tn Or “commanded” (often with the implication of a threat, L&N 33.331).

[9:42]  ¹⁴ sn This is a reference to an evil spirit. See Luke 4:33.

[12:53]  ¹³ tn There is dispute whether this phrase belongs to the end of v. 52 or begins v. 53. Given the shift of object, a connection to v. 53 is slightly preferred.

[15:29]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “but answering, he said.” This is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified to “but he answered.”

[15:29]  ¹⁸ tn Or simply, “have served,” but in the emotional context of the older son’s outburst the translation given is closer to the point.

[15:29]  ¹⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “yet” to bring out the contrast indicated by the context.

[15:29]  ²⁰ sn You never gave me even a goat. The older son’s complaint was that the generous treatment of the younger son was not fair: “I can’t get even a little celebration with a basic food staple like a goat!”