Luke 18:30

Context
18:30 who will not receive many times more¹ in this age² – and in the age to come, eternal life.”³

Luke 20:28

Context
20:28 They asked him,⁴ “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man⁵ must marry⁶ the widow and father children⁷ for his brother.⁸

[18:30] ¹sn Jesus reassures his disciples with a promise that (1) much benefit in this life (many times more) and (2) eternal life in the age to come will be given.

[18:30] ²tn Grk “this time” (καιρός, kairos), but for stylistic reasons this has been translated “this age” here.

[18:30] ³sn Note that Luke (see also Matt 19:29; Mark 10:30; Luke 10:25) portrays eternal life as something one receives in the age to come, unlike John, who emphasizes the possibility of receiving eternal life in the present (John 5:24).

[20:28] ⁴tn Grk “asked him, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[20:28] ⁵tn Grk “his brother”; but this would be redundant in English with the same phrase “his brother” at the end of the verse, so most modern translations render this phrase “the man” (so NIV, NRSV).

[20:28] ⁶tn The use of ἵνα (Jina) with imperatival force is unusual (BDF §470.1).

[20:28] ⁷tn Grk “and raise up seed,” an idiom for procreating children (L&N 23.59).

[20:28] ⁸sn A quotation from Deut 25:5. Because the OT quotation does not include “a wife” as the object of the verb, it has been left as normal type. This practice is called levirate marriage (see also Ruth 4:1-12; Mishnah, m. Yevamot; Josephus, Ant. 4.8.23 [4.254-256]). The levirate law is described in Deut 25:5-10. The brother of a man who died without a son had an obligation to marry his brother’s widow. This served several purposes: It provided for the widow in a society where a widow with no children to care for her would be reduced to begging, and it preserved the name of the deceased, who would be regarded as the legal father of the first son produced from that marriage.