Lukas 3:12

3:12 Tax collectors ¹  also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what should we do?”

Lukas 12:13

The Parable of the Rich Landowner

12:13 Then ²  someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell ³  my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

Lukas 19:20

19:20 Then another ⁴  slave ⁵  came and said, ‘Sir, here is ⁶  your mina that I put away for safekeeping ⁷  in a piece of cloth. ⁸ 

[3:12]  ¹ sn The tax collectors would bid to collect taxes for the Roman government and then add a surcharge, which they kept. Since tax collectors worked for Rome, they were viewed as traitors to their own people and were not well liked. Yet even they were moved by John’s call.

[12:13]  ² tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[12:13]  ³ sn Tell my brother. In 1st century Jewish culture, a figure like a rabbi was often asked to mediate disputes, except that here mediation was not requested, but representation.

[19:20]  ⁴ sn Though ten were given minas, the story stops to focus on the one who did nothing with the opportunity given to him. Here is the parable’s warning about the one who does not trust the master. This figure is called “another,” marking him out as different than the first two.

[19:20]  ⁵ tn The word “slave” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied for stylistic reasons.

[19:20]  ⁶ tn Grk “behold.”

[19:20]  ⁷ tn Or “that I stored away.” L&N 85.53 defines ἀπόκειμαι (apokeimai) here as “to put something away for safekeeping – ‘to store, to put away in a safe place.’”

[19:20]  ⁸ tn The piece of cloth, called a σουδάριον (soudarion), could have been a towel, napkin, handkerchief, or face cloth (L&N 6.159).