Luke 1:79

1:79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, ¹ 

to guide our feet into the way ²  of peace.”

Luke 18:35

Healing a Blind Man

18:35 As ³  Jesus ⁴  approached ⁵  Jericho, ⁶  a blind man was sitting by the road begging.

Luke 20:42

20:42 For David himself says in the book of Psalms,

‘The Lord said to my ⁷  lord,

“Sit at my right hand,

Luke 22:55

22:55 When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.

Luke 22:69

22:69 But from now on ⁸  the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand ⁹  of the power ¹⁰  of God.”

[1:79]  ¹ sn On the phrases who sit in darkness…and…death see Isa 9:1-2; 42:7; 49:9-10.

[1:79]  ² tn Or “the path.”

[18:35]  ³ tn Grk “Now it happened that as.” 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.

[18:35]  ⁴ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[18:35]  ⁵ tn The phrase is “he drew near to” (19:29; 24:28). It is also possible the term merely means “is in the vicinity of.” Also possible is a reversal in the timing of the healing and Zacchaeus events for literary reasons as the blind man “sees” where the rich man with everything did not.

[18:35]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[20:42]  ⁵ sn The Lord said to my Lord. With David being the speaker, this indicates his respect for his descendant (referred to as my Lord). Jesus was arguing, as the ancient exposition assumed, that the passage is about the Lord’s anointed. The passage looks at an enthronement of this figure and a declaration of honor for him as he takes his place at the side of God. In Jerusalem, the king’s palace was located to the right of the temple to indicate this kind of relationship. Jesus was pressing the language here to get his opponents to reflect on how great Messiah is.

[22:69]  ⁷ sn From now on. Jesus’ authority was taken up from this moment on. Ironically he is now the ultimate judge, who is himself being judged.

[22:69]  ⁸ sn Seated at the right hand is an allusion to Ps 110:1 (“Sit at my right hand…”) and is a claim that Jesus shares authority with God in heaven. Those present may have thought they were his judges, but, in fact, the reverse was true.

[22:69]  ⁹ sn The expression the right hand of the power of God is a circumlocution for referring to God. Such indirect references to God were common in 1st century Judaism out of reverence for the divine name.