Luke 7:33

7:33 For John the Baptist has come ¹  eating no bread and drinking no wine, ²  and you say, ‘He has a demon!’ ³ 

Luke 19:31

19:31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ just say, ‘The Lord needs ⁴  it.’”

Luke 20:24

20:24 “Show me a denarius. ⁵  Whose image ⁶  and inscription are on it?” ⁷  They said, “Caesar’s.”

[7:33]  ¹ tn The perfect tenses in both this verse and the next do more than mere aorists would. They not only summarize, but suggest the characteristics of each ministry were still in existence at the time of speaking.

[7:33]  ² tn Grk “neither eating bread nor drinking wine,” but this is somewhat awkward in contemporary English.

[7:33]  ³ sn John the Baptist was too separatist and ascetic for some, and so he was accused of not being directed by God, but by a demon.

[19:31]  ⁴ sn The custom called angaria allowed the impressment of animals for service to a significant figure.

[20:24]  ⁷ tn Here the specific name of the coin was retained in the translation, because not all coins in circulation in Palestine at the time carried the image of Caesar. In other places δηνάριον (dhnarion) has been translated simply as “silver coin” with an explanatory note.

[20:24]  ⁸ tn Or “whose likeness.”

[20:24]  ⁹ tn Grk “whose likeness and inscription does it have?”