Lukas 11:11

11:11 What father among you, if your ¹  son asks for ²  a fish, will give him a snake ³  instead of a fish?

Lukas 13:2

13:2 He ⁴  answered them, “Do you think these Galileans were worse sinners ⁵  than all the other Galileans, because they suffered these things?

[11:11]  ¹ tn Grk “the”; in context the article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[11:11]  ² tc Most mss (א A C D L W Θ Ψ Ë^1,13 33 Ï lat sy^c,p,h bo) have “bread, does not give him a stone instead, or” before “a fish”; the longer reading, however, looks like a harmonization to Matt 7:9. The shorter reading is thus preferred, attested by Ì^45,75 B 1241 pc sy^s sa.

[11:11]  ³ sn The snake probably refers to a water snake.

[13:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

[13:2]  ⁵ sn Jesus did not want his hearers to think that tragedy was necessarily a judgment on these people because they were worse sinners.