Luke 4:3

4:3 The devil said to him, “If ¹  you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” ² 

Luke 10:20

10:20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice that ³  the spirits submit to you, but rejoice ⁴  that your names stand written ⁵  in heaven.”

Luke 14:9

14:9 So ⁶  the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, ⁷  you will begin to move to the least important ⁸  place.

Luke 18:30

18:30 who will not receive many times more ⁹  in this age ¹⁰  – and in the age to come, eternal life.” ¹¹ 

Luke 19:9

19:9 Then ¹²  Jesus said to him, “Today salvation ¹³  has come to this household, ¹⁴  because he too is a son of Abraham! ¹⁵ 

Luke 21:23

21:23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress ¹⁶  on the earth and wrath against this people.

[4:3]  ¹ tn This is a first class condition: “If (and let’s assume that you are) the Son of God…”

[4:3]  ² tn Grk “say to this stone that it should become bread.”

[10:20]  ³ tn Grk “do not rejoice in this, that.” This is awkward in contemporary English and has been simplified to “do not rejoice that.”

[10:20]  ⁴ tn The verb here is a present imperative, so the call is to an attitude of rejoicing.

[10:20]  ⁵ tn The verb here, a perfect tense, stresses a present reality of that which was a completed action, that is, their names were etched in the heavenly stone, as it were.

[14:9]  ⁵ tn Grk “host, and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate this action is a result of the situation described in the previous verse. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[14:9]  ⁶ tn Or “then in disgrace”; Grk “with shame.” In this culture avoiding shame was important.

[14:9]  ⁷ tn Grk “lowest place” (also in the repetition of the phrase in the next verse).

[18:30]  ⁷ sn 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]  ⁸ tn Grk “this time” (καιρός, kairos), but for stylistic reasons this has been translated “this age” here.

[18:30]  ⁹ sn 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).

[19:9]  ⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative

[19:9]  ¹⁰ sn This is one of the few uses of the specific term salvation in Luke (1:69, 71, 77), though the concept runs throughout the Gospel.

[19:9]  ¹¹ sn The household is not a reference to the building, but to the people who lived within it (L&N 10.8).

[19:9]  ¹² sn Zacchaeus was personally affirmed by Jesus as a descendant (son) of Abraham and a member of God’s family.

[21:23]  ¹¹ sn Great distress means that this is a period of great judgment.