Lukas 12:28

12:28 And if ¹  this is how God clothes the wild grass, ²  which is here ³  today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, ⁴  how much more ⁵  will he clothe you, you people of little faith!

Lukas 13:31

Going to Jerusalem

13:31 At that time, ⁶  some Pharisees ⁷  came up and said to Jesus, ⁸  “Get away from here, ⁹  because Herod ¹⁰  wants to kill you.”

Lukas 14:9

14:9 So ¹¹  the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, ¹²  you will begin to move to the least important ¹³  place.

Lukas 14:28

14:28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down ¹⁴  first and compute the cost ¹⁵  to see if he has enough money to complete it?

Lukas 17:10

17:10 So you too, when you have done everything you were commanded to do, should say, ‘We are slaves undeserving of special praise; ¹⁶  we have only done what was our duty.’” ¹⁷ 

[12:28]  ¹ tn This is a first class condition in the Greek text.

[12:28]  ² tn Grk “grass in the field.”

[12:28]  ³ tn Grk “which is in the field today.”

[12:28]  ⁴ tn Grk “into the oven.” The expanded translation “into the fire to heat the oven” has been used to avoid misunderstanding; most items put into modern ovens are put there to be baked, not burned.

[12:28]  sn The oven was most likely a rounded clay oven used for baking bread, which was heated by burning wood and dried grass.

[12:28]  ⁵ sn The phrase how much more is a typical form of rabbinic argumentation, from the lesser to the greater. If God cares for the little things, surely he will care for the more important things.

[13:31]  ⁶ tn Grk “At that very hour.”

[13:31]  ⁷ sn See the note on Pharisees in 5:17.

[13:31]  ⁸ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:31]  ⁹ tn Grk “Go away and leave from here,” which is redundant in English and has been shortened to “Get away from here.”

[13:31]  ¹⁰ sn Herod refers here to Herod Antipas. See the note on Herod Antipas in 3:1.

[14:9]  ¹¹ tn Grk “host, and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate this action is a result of the situation described in the previous verse. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[14:9]  ¹² tn Or “then in disgrace”; Grk “with shame.” In this culture avoiding shame was important.

[14:9]  ¹³ tn Grk “lowest place” (also in the repetition of the phrase in the next verse).

[14:28]  ¹⁴ tn The participle καθίσας (kaqisas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[14:28]  ¹⁵ tn The first illustration involves checking to see if enough funds exist to build a watchtower. Both ψηφίζω (yhfizw, “compute”) and δαπάνη (dapanh, “cost”) are economic terms.

[17:10]  ¹⁶ tn Some translations describe the slaves as “worthless” (NRSV) or “unworthy” (NASB, NIV) but that is not Jesus’ point. These disciples have not done anything deserving special commendation or praise (L&N 33.361), but only what would normally be expected of a slave in such a situation (thus the translation “we have only done what was our duty”).

[17:10]  ¹⁷ tn Or “we have only done what we were supposed to do.”