Luke 12:26

12:26 So if ¹  you cannot do such a very little thing as this, why do you worry about ²  the rest?

Luke 5:34

5:34 So ³  Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the wedding guests ⁴  fast while the bridegroom ⁵  is with them, can you? ⁶ 

Luke 16:13

16:13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate ⁷  the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise ⁸  the other. You cannot serve God and money.” ⁹ 

[12:26]  ¹ tn This is a first class condition in the Greek text.

[12:26]  ² tn Or “why are you anxious for.”

[5:34]  ³ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate that Jesus’ pronouncement is a result of their statements about his disciples.

[5:34]  ⁴ tn Grk “the sons of the wedding hall,” an idiom referring to guests at the wedding, or more specifically, friends of the bridegroom present at the wedding celebration (L&N 11.7).

[5:34]  ⁵ sn The expression while the bridegroom is with them is an allusion to messianic times (John 3:29; Isa 54:5-6; 62:4-5; 4 Ezra 2:15, 38).

[5:34]  ⁶ tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here it is “can you?”).

[16:13]  ⁵ sn The contrast between hate and love here is rhetorical. The point is that one will choose the favorite if a choice has to be made.

[16:13]  ⁶ tn Or “and treat [the other] with contempt.”

[16:13]  ⁷ tn Grk “God and mammon.” This is the same word (μαμωνᾶς, mamwnas; often merely transliterated as “mammon”) translated “worldly wealth” in vv. 9, 11.