Lukas 15:9

15:9 Then ¹  when she has found it, she calls together her ²  friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice ³  with me, for I have found the coin ⁴  that I had lost.’

Lukas 15:30

15:30 But when this son of yours ⁵  came back, who has devoured ⁶  your assets with prostitutes, ⁷  you killed the fattened calf ⁸  for him!’

Lukas 23:11

23:11 Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, ⁹  dressing him in elegant clothes, ¹⁰  Herod ¹¹  sent him back to Pilate.

[15:9]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[15:9]  ² tn Grk “the”; in context the article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[15:9]  ³ sn Rejoice. Besides the theme of pursuing the lost, the other theme of the parable is the joy of finding them.

[15:9]  ⁴ tn Grk “drachma.”

[15:30]  ⁵ sn Note the younger son is not “my brother” but this son of yours (an expression with a distinctly pejorative nuance).

[15:30]  ⁶ sn This is another graphic description. The younger son’s consumption had been like a glutton. He had both figuratively and literally devoured the assets which were given to him.

[15:30]  ⁷ sn The charge concerning the prostitutes is unproven, but essentially the older brother accuses the father of committing an injustice by rewarding his younger son’s unrighteous behavior.

[15:30]  ⁸ sn See note on the phrase “fattened calf” in v. 23.

[23:11]  ⁹ tn This is a continuation of the previous Greek sentence, but because of its length and complexity, a new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying “then” to indicate the sequence of events.

[23:11]  ¹⁰ sn This mockery involved putting elegant royal clothes on Jesus, either white or purple (the colors of royalty). This was no doubt a mockery of Jesus’ claim to be a king.

[23:11]  ¹¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Herod) has been specified in the translation for clarity.