Luke 11:7

11:7 Then ¹  he will reply ²  from inside, ‘Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. ³  I cannot get up and give you anything.’ ⁴ 

Luke 16:3

16:3 Then ⁵  the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking my position ⁶  away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig, ⁷  and I’m too ashamed ⁸  to beg.

Luke 22:37

22:37 For I tell you that this scripture must be ⁹  fulfilled in me, ‘And he was counted with the transgressors.’ ¹⁰  For what is written about me is being fulfilled.” ¹¹ 

Luke 24:44

Jesus’ Final Commission

24:44 Then ¹²  he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me ¹³  in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms ¹⁴  must be fulfilled.”

[11:7]  ¹ tn Κἀκεῖνος (kakeino") has been translated “Then he.”

[11:7]  ² tn Grk “answering, he will say.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified to “he will reply.”

[11:7]  ³ tn Grk “my children are with me in the bed.” In Jewish homes in the time of Jesus, the beds were often all together in one room; thus the householder may be speaking of individual beds (using a collective singular) rather than a common bed.

[11:7]  ⁴ tn The syntax of vv. 6-7 is complex. In the Greek text Jesus’ words in v. 6 begin as a question. Some see Jesus’ question ending at v. 6, but the reply starting in v. 8 favors extending the question through the entire illustration. The translation breaks up the long sentence at the beginning of v. 7 and translates Jesus’ words as a statement for reasons of English style.

[16:3]  ⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events in the parable.

[16:3]  ⁶ tn Grk “the stewardship,” “the management.”

[16:3]  ⁷ tn Here “dig” could refer (1) to excavation (“dig ditches,” L&N 19.55) or (2) to agricultural labor (“work the soil,” L&N 43.3). In either case this was labor performed by the uneducated, so it would be an insult as a job for a manager.

[16:3]  ⁸ tn Grk “I do not have strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg.”

[22:37]  ⁹ sn This scripture must be fulfilled in me. The statement again reflects the divine necessity of God’s plan. See 4:43-44.

[22:37]  ¹⁰ tn Or “with the lawless.”

[22:37]  ¹¹ tn Grk “is having its fulfillment.”

[24:44]  ¹³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[24:44]  ¹⁴ sn Everything written about me. The divine plan, events, and scripture itself are seen here as being one.

[24:44]  ¹⁵ sn For a similar threefold division of the OT scriptures, see the prologue to Sirach, lines 8-10, and from Qumran, the epilogue to 4QMMT, line 10.