Luke 10:5-7

10:5 Whenever ¹  you enter a house, ²  first say, ‘May peace ³  be on this house!’ 10:6 And if a peace-loving person ⁴  is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you. ⁵  10:7 Stay ⁶  in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, ⁷  for the worker deserves his pay. ⁸  Do not move around from house to house.

[10:5]  ¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[10:5]  ² tn Grk “Into whatever house you enter.” This acts as a distributive, meaning every house they enter; this is expressed more naturally in English as “whenever you enter a house.”

[10:5]  ³ sn The statement ‘May peace be on this house!’ is really a benediction, asking for God’s blessing. The requested shalom (peace) is understood as coming from God.

[10:6]  ⁴ tn Grk “a son of peace,” a Hebrew idiom for a person of a certain class or kind, as specified by the following genitive construction (in this case, “of peace”). Such constructions are discussed further in L&N 9.4. Here the expression refers to someone who responds positively to the disciples’ message, like “wisdom’s child” in Luke 7:30.

[10:6]  ⁵ sn The response to these messengers determines how God’s blessing is bestowed – if they are not welcomed with peace, their blessing will return to them. Jesus shows just how important their mission is by this remark.

[10:7]  ⁷ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[10:7]  ⁸ tn Grk “eating and drinking the things from them” (an idiom for what the people in the house provide the guests).

[10:7]  ⁹ sn On the phrase the worker deserves his pay see 1 Tim 5:18 and 1 Cor 9:14.