Luke 6:24

6:24 “But woe ¹  to you who are rich, for you have received ²  your comfort ³  already.

Luke 12:16

12:16 He then ⁴  told them a parable: ⁵  “The land of a certain rich man produced ⁶  an abundant crop,

Luke 18:23

18:23 But when the man ⁷  heard this he became very sad, ⁸  for he was extremely wealthy.

Luke 21:1

The Widow’s Offering

21:1 Jesus ⁹  looked up ¹⁰  and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box. ¹¹ 

[6:24]  ¹ sn Jesus promises condemnation (woe) to those who are callous of others, looking only to their own comforts. On Luke and the rich see 1:53; 12:16; 14:12; 16:1, 21-22; 18:23; 19:2; 21:1. These woes are unique to Luke.

[6:24]  ² sn Ironically the language of reward shows that what the rich have received is all they will get. This result looks at a current situation, just as the start of the beatitudes did. The rest of the conclusions to the woes look to the future at the time of judgment.

[6:24]  ³ tn Grk “your consolation.”

[12:16]  ⁴ tn Grk “And he.” Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the connection to the preceding statement.

[12:16]  ⁵ tn Grk “a parable, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated here.

[12:16]  ⁶ tn Or “yielded a plentiful harvest.”

[18:23]  ⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:23]  ⁸ tn Or “very distressed” (L&N 25.277).

[21:1]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “He”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[21:1]  ¹¹ tn Grk “looking up, he saw.” The participle ἀναβλέψας (anableya") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[21:1]  ¹² tn On the term γαζοφυλάκιον (gazofulakion), often translated “treasury,” see BDAG 186 s.v., which states, “For Mk 12:41, 43; Lk 21:1 the mng. contribution box or receptacle is attractive. Acc. to Mishnah, Shekalim 6, 5 there were in the temple 13 such receptacles in the form of trumpets. But even in these passages the general sense of ‘treasury’ is prob., for the contributions would go [into] the treasury via the receptacles.” Based upon the extra-biblical evidence (see sn following), however, the translation opts to refer to the actual receptacles and not the treasury itself.