Luke 7:41

7:41 “A certain creditor ¹  had two debtors; one owed him ²  five hundred silver coins, ³  and the other fifty.

Luke 10:42

10:42 but one thing ⁴  is needed. Mary has chosen the best ⁵  part; it will not be taken away from her.”

Luke 12:6

12:6 Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies? ⁶  Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.

Luke 15:10

15:10 In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels ⁷  over one sinner who repents.”

Luke 17:15

17:15 Then one of them, when he saw he was healed, turned back, praising ⁸  God with a loud voice.

Luke 17:35

17:35 There will be two women grinding grain together; ⁹  one will be taken and the other left.”

Luke 18:10

18:10 “Two men went up ¹⁰  to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee ¹¹  and the other a tax collector. ¹² 

Luke 18:19

18:19 Jesus ¹³  said to him, “Why do you call me good? ¹⁴  No one is good except God alone.

[7:41]  ¹ sn A creditor was a moneylender, whose business was to lend money to others at a fixed rate of interest.

[7:41]  ² tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.

[7:41]  ³ tn Grk “five hundred denarii.”

[10:42]  ⁴ tc Or, with some mss (̳ [א] B C² L 070^vid ˹ 33 [579] pc), “few things are needed – or only one” (as well as other variants). The textual problem here is a difficult one to decide. The shorter reading is normally preferred, but it is not altogether clear how the variants would arise from it. However, the reading followed in the translation has good support (with some internal variations) from a number of witnesses (Ì^45,75 A C* W Θ Ψ Ë¹³ Ï lat sa).

[10:42]  ⁵ tn Or “better”; Grk “good.” This is an instance of the positive adjective used in place of the superlative adjective. According to ExSyn 298, this could also be treated as a positive for comparative (“better”).

[12:6]  ⁷ sn The pennies refer to the assarion, a small Roman copper coin. One of them was worth one sixteenth of a denarius or less than a half hour’s average wage. Sparrows were the cheapest thing sold in the market. God knows about even the most financially insignificant things; see Isa 49:15.

[15:10]  ¹⁰ sn The whole of heaven is said to rejoice. Joy in the presence of God’s angels is a way of referring to God’s joy as well without having to name him explicitly. Contemporary Judaism tended to refer to God indirectly where possible out of reverence or respect for the divine name.

[17:15]  ¹³ tn Grk “glorifying God.”

[17:35]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “at the same place.” According to L&N 46.16, this refers to a hand mill normally operated by two women.

[18:10]  ¹⁹ sn The temple is on a hill in Jerusalem, so one would go up to enter its precincts.

[18:10]  ²⁰ sn See the note on Pharisees in 5:17.

[18:10]  ²¹ sn See the note on tax collectors in 3:12.

[18:19]  ²² tn Grk “And Jesus.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[18:19]  ²³ sn Jesus’ response, Why do you call me good?, was designed to cause the ruler to stop and think for a moment about who Jesus really was. The following statement No one is good except God alone seems to point the man in the direction of Jesus’ essential nature and the demands which logically follow on the man for having said it.