Luke 14:28

14:28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down ¹  first and compute the cost ²  to see if he has enough money to complete it?

Luke 16:5

16:5 So ³  he contacted ⁴  his master’s debtors one by one. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

[14:28]  ¹ tn The participle καθίσας (kaqisas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[14:28]  ² tn The first illustration involves checking to see if enough funds exist to build a watchtower. Both ψηφίζω (yhfizw, “compute”) and δαπάνη (dapanh, “cost”) are economic terms.

[16:5]  ³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the result of the manager’s decision.

[16:5]  ⁴ tn Grk “summoning.” The participle προσκαλεσάμενος (proskalesameno") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.