Luke 8:18

8:18 So listen carefully, ¹  for whoever has will be given more, but ²  whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has ³  will be taken from him.”

Luke 9:62

9:62 Jesus ⁴  said to him, “No one who puts his ⁵  hand to the plow and looks back ⁶  is fit for the kingdom of God.” ⁷ 

Luke 10:24

10:24 For I tell you that many prophets and kings longed to see ⁸  what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”

Luke 21:8

21:8 He ⁹  said, “Watch out ¹⁰  that you are not misled. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ ¹¹  and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them!

Luke 24:12

24:12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. ¹²  He bent down ¹³  and saw only the strips of linen cloth; ¹⁴  then he went home, ¹⁵  wondering ¹⁶  what had happened. ¹⁷ 

[8:18]  ¹ tn Or “Therefore pay close attention”; Grk “Take heed therefore how you hear.”

[8:18]  ² tn Grk “and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[8:18]  ³ sn The phrase what he thinks he has is important, because it is not what a person thinks he has that is important but whether he actually has something or not. Jesus describes the person who does not heed his word as having nothing. The person who has nothing loses even that which he thought was something but was not. In other words, he has absolutely nothing at all. Jesus’ teaching must be taken seriously.

[9:62]  ⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[9:62]  ⁵ tn Grk “the”; in context the article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[9:62]  ⁶ sn Jesus warns that excessive concern for family ties (looks back) will make the kingdom a lesser priority, which is not appropriate for discipleship. The image is graphic, for who can plow straight ahead toward a goal while looking back? Discipleship cannot be double-minded.

[9:62]  ⁷ sn The kingdom of God is a major theme of Jesus. It is a realm in which Jesus rules and to which those who trust him belong. See Luke 6:20; 11:20; 17:20-21.

[10:24]  ⁷ sn This is what past prophets and kings had wanted very much to see, yet the fulfillment had come to the disciples. This remark is like 1 Pet 1:10-12 or Heb 1:1-2.

[21:8]  ¹⁰ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[21:8]  ¹¹ tn Or “Be on guard.”

[21:8]  ¹² tn That is, “I am the Messiah.”

[24:12]  ¹³ sn While the others dismissed the report of the women, Peter got up and ran to the tomb, for he had learned to believe in what the Lord had said.

[24:12]  ¹⁴ sn In most instances the entrance to such tombs was less than 3 ft (1 m) high, so that an adult would have to bend down and practically crawl inside.

[24:12]  ¹⁵ tn In the NT this term is used only for strips of cloth used to wrap a body for burial (LN 6.154; BDAG 693 s.v. ὀθόνιον).

[24:12]  ¹⁶ tn Or “went away, wondering to himself.” The prepositional phrase πρὸς ἑαυτόν (pros Jeauton) can be understood with the preceding verb ἀπῆλθεν (aphlqen) or with the following participle θαυμάζων (qaumazwn), but it more likely belongs with the former (cf. John 20:10, where the phrase can only refer to the verb).

[24:12]  ¹⁷ sn Peter’s wondering was not a lack of faith, but struggling in an attempt to understand what could have happened.

[24:12]  ¹⁸ tc Some Western mss (D it) lack 24:12. The verse has been called a Western noninterpolation, meaning that it reflects a shorter authentic reading in D and other Western witnesses. Many regard all such shorter readings as original (the verse is omitted in the RSV), but the ms evidence for omission is far too slight for the verse to be rejected as secondary. It is included in Ì⁷⁵ and the rest of the ms tradition.