Luke 7:8

7:8 For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me. ¹  I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, ²  and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” ³ 

Luke 15:29

15:29 but he answered ⁴  his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave ⁵  for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet ⁶  you never gave me even a goat ⁷  so that I could celebrate with my friends!

Luke 16:3

16:3 Then ⁸  the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking my position ⁹  away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig, ¹⁰  and I’m too ashamed ¹¹  to beg.

Luke 19:22

19:22 The king ¹²  said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, ¹³  you wicked slave! ¹⁴  So you knew, did you, that I was a severe ¹⁵  man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?

[7:8]  ¹ tn Grk “having soldiers under me.”

[7:8]  ² sn I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes. The illustrations highlight the view of authority the soldier sees in the word of one who has authority. Since the centurion was a commander of a hundred soldiers, he understood what it was both to command others and to be obeyed.

[7:8]  ³ tn The word “it” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[15:29]  ⁴ tn Grk “but answering, he said.” This is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified to “but he answered.”

[15:29]  ⁵ tn Or simply, “have served,” but in the emotional context of the older son’s outburst the translation given is closer to the point.

[15:29]  ⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “yet” to bring out the contrast indicated by the context.

[15:29]  ⁷ sn You never gave me even a goat. The older son’s complaint was that the generous treatment of the younger son was not fair: “I can’t get even a little celebration with a basic food staple like a goat!”

[16:3]  ⁷ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events in the parable.

[16:3]  ⁸ tn Grk “the stewardship,” “the management.”

[16:3]  ⁹ tn Here “dig” could refer (1) to excavation (“dig ditches,” L&N 19.55) or (2) to agricultural labor (“work the soil,” L&N 43.3). In either case this was labor performed by the uneducated, so it would be an insult as a job for a manager.

[16:3]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “I do not have strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg.”

[19:22]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “He”; the referent (the nobleman of v. 12, now a king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:22]  ¹¹ tn Grk “out of your own mouth” (an idiom).

[19:22]  ¹² tn Note the contrast between this slave, described as “wicked,” and the slave in v. 17, described as “good.”

[19:22]  ¹³ tn Or “exacting,” “harsh,” “hard.”