Luke 2:46

2:46 After ¹  three days ²  they found him in the temple courts, ³  sitting among the teachers, ⁴  listening to them and asking them questions.

Luke 24:21

24:21 But we had hoped ⁵  that he was the one who was going to redeem ⁶  Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.

Luke 9:22

9:22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer ⁷  many things and be rejected by the elders, ⁸  chief priests, and experts in the law, ⁹  and be killed, and on the third day be raised.” ¹⁰ 

[2:46]  ¹ tn Grk “And it happened that after.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[2:46]  ² sn Three days means there was one day out, another day back, and a third day of looking in Jerusalem.

[2:46]  ³ tn Grk “the temple.”

[2:46]  ⁴ tn This is the only place in Luke’s Gospel where the term διδάσκαλος (didaskalo", “teacher”) is applied to Jews.

[24:21]  ⁵ tn The imperfect verb looks back to the view that they held during Jesus’ past ministry.

[24:21]  ⁶ sn Their messianic hope concerning Jesus is expressed by the phrase who was going to redeem Israel.

[9:22]  ⁹ sn The necessity that the Son of Man suffer is the particular point that needed emphasis, since for many 1st century Jews the Messiah was a glorious and powerful figure, not a suffering one.

[9:22]  ¹⁰ sn Rejection in Luke is especially by the Jewish leadership (here elders, chief priests, and experts in the law), though in Luke 23 almost all will join in.

[9:22]  ¹¹ tn Or “and scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 5:21.

[9:22]  ¹² sn The description of the Son of Man being rejected…killed, and…raised is the first of six passion summaries in Luke: 9:44; 17:25; 18:31-33; 24:7; 24:46-47.