Luke 10:5-8

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. 10:8 Whenever ⁹  you enter a town ¹⁰  and the people ¹¹  welcome you, eat what is set before you.

Matthew 10:11

10:11 Whenever ¹²  you enter a town or village, ¹³  find out who is worthy there ¹⁴  and stay with them ¹⁵  until you leave.

Mark 6:10

6:10 He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there ¹⁶  until you leave the area.

Acts 16:15

16:15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, ¹⁷  “If ¹⁸  you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, ¹⁹  come and stay in my house.” And she persuaded ²⁰  us.

[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]  ⁶ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

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

[10:7]  ⁸ sn On the phrase the worker deserves his pay see 1 Tim 5:18 and 1 Cor 9:14.

[10:8]  ⁹ tn Grk “And whatever town you enter,” but this is more often expressed in English as “whenever you enter a town.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[10:8]  ¹⁰ tn Or “city.” Jesus now speaks of the town as a whole, as he will in vv. 10-12.

[10:8]  ¹¹ tn Grk “and they”; the referent (the people who live in the town) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:11]  ¹² tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[10:11]  ¹³ tn Grk “Into whatever town or village you enter.” This acts as a distributive, meaning every town or village they enter; this is expressed more naturally in English as “whenever you enter a town or village.”

[10:11]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “in it” (referring to the city or village).

[10:11]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “there.” This was translated as “with them” to avoid redundancy in English and to clarify where the disciples were to stay.

[6:10]  ¹⁶ sn Jesus telling his disciples to stay there in one house contrasts with the practice of religious philosophers in the ancient world who went from house to house begging.

[16:15]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “urged us, saying.” The participle λέγουσα (legousa) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[16:15]  ¹⁸ tn This is a first class condition in Greek, with the statement presented as real or true for the sake of the argument.

[16:15]  ¹⁹ tn Or “faithful to the Lord.” BDAG 821 s.v. πίστος 2 states concerning this verse, “Of one who confesses the Christian faith believing or a believer in the Lord, in Christ, in God πιστ. τῷ κυρίῳ Ac 16:15.” L&N 11.17 has “one who is included among the faithful followers of Christ – ‘believer, Christian, follower.’”

[16:15]  ²⁰ tn Although BDAG 759 s.v. παραβιάζομαι has “urge strongly, prevail upon,” in contemporary English “persuade” is a more frequently used synonym for “prevail upon.”