Luke 17:6

NETBible

So 1  the Lord replied, 2  “If 3  you had faith the size of 4  a mustard seed, you could say to this black mulberry 5  tree, ‘Be pulled out by the roots and planted in the sea,’ 6  and it would obey 7  you.

NIV ©

He replied, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.

NASB ©

And the Lord said, "If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’; and it would obey you.

NLT ©

"Even if you had faith as small as a mustard seed," the Lord answered, "you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May God uproot you and throw you into the sea,’ and it would obey you!

MSG ©

But the Master said, "You don't need more faith. There is no 'more' or 'less' in faith. If you have a bare kernel of faith, say the size of a poppy seed, you could say to this sycamore tree, 'Go jump in the lake,' and it would do it.

BBE ©

And the Lord said, If your faith was only as great as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this tree, Be rooted up and planted in the sea; and it would be done.

NRSV ©

The Lord replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

NKJV ©

So the Lord said, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

KJV
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NASB ©
And the Lord
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you had
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faith
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like
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a mustard
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seed
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to this
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tree
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, 'Be uprooted
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and be planted
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in the sea
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'; and it would obey
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you.
NET [draft] ITL
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, you could say
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, ‘Be pulled out by the roots
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and
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in
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,’ and
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it would obey
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you
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.
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NETBible

So 1  the Lord replied, 2  “If 3  you had faith the size of 4  a mustard seed, you could say to this black mulberry 5  tree, ‘Be pulled out by the roots and planted in the sea,’ 6  and it would obey 7  you.

NET Notes

1 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of previous action(s) in the narrative.

2 tn Grk “said.”

3 tn This is a mixed condition, with ἄν (an) in the apodosis.

4 tn Grk “faith as,” “faith like.”

5 sn A black mulberry tree is a deciduous fruit tree that grows about 20 ft (6 m) tall and has black juicy berries. This tree has an extensive root system, so to pull it up would be a major operation.

6 tn The passives here (ἐκριζώθητι and φυτεύθητι, ekrizwqhti and futeuqhti) are probably a circumlocution for God performing the action (the so-called divine passive, see ExSyn 437-38). The issue is not the amount of faith (which in the example is only very tiny), but its presence, which can accomplish impossible things. To cause a tree to be uprooted and planted in the sea is impossible. The expression is a rhetorical idiom. It is like saying a camel can go through the eye of a needle (Luke 18:25).

7 tn The verb is aorist, though it looks at a future event, another rhetorical touch to communicate certainty of the effect of faith.