Lukas 12:24

12:24 Consider the ravens: ¹  They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds ²  them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

Lukas 19:22

19:22 The king ³  said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, ⁴  you wicked slave! ⁵  So you knew, did you, that I was a severe ⁶  man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?

[12:24]  ¹ tn Or “crows.” Crows and ravens belong to the same family of birds. English uses “crow” as a general word for the family. Palestine has several indigenous members of the crow family.

[12:24]  ² tn Or “God gives them food to eat.” L&N 23.6 has both “to provide food for” and “to give food to someone to eat.”

[19:22]  ³ tn Grk “He”; the referent (the nobleman of v. 12, now a king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:22]  ⁴ tn Grk “out of your own mouth” (an idiom).

[19:22]  ⁵ tn Note the contrast between this slave, described as “wicked,” and the slave in v. 17, described as “good.”

[19:22]  ⁶ tn Or “exacting,” “harsh,” “hard.”