Lukas 4:5
Konteks4:5 Then 1 the devil 2 led him up 3 to a high place 4 and showed him in a flash all the kingdoms of the world.
Lukas 18:18
Konteks18:18 Now 5 a certain ruler 6 asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 7
Lukas 18:24
Konteks18:24 When Jesus noticed this, 8 he said, “How hard 9 it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! 10
Lukas 19:43
Konteks19:43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build 11 an embankment 12 against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.
[4:5] 1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
[4:5] sn The order of Luke’s temptations differs from Matthew’s at this point as numbers two and three are reversed. It is slightly more likely that Luke has made the change to put the Jerusalem temptation last, as Jerusalem is so important to Luke’s later account. The temporal markers in Matthew’s account are also slightly more specific.
[4:5] 3 tc Most
[4:5] 4 tn “A high place” is not in the Greek text but has been supplied for clarity.
[18:18] 5 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.
[18:18] 6 sn Only Luke states this man is a ruler (cf. the parallels in Matt 19:16-22 and Mark 10:17-22, where the questioner is described only as “someone”). He is probably a civic leader of some kind, a leader in the society.
[18:18] 7 sn The rich man wanted to know what he must do to inherit eternal life, but Jesus had just finished teaching that eternal life was not earned but simply received (18:17). See the similar question about inheriting eternal life in Luke 10:25.
[18:24] 8 tc ‡ The phrase περίλυπον γενόμενον (perilupon genomenon, “[When Jesus saw him] becoming sad”) is found in the majority of
[18:24] tn Grk “him.”
[18:24] 9 sn For the rich it is hard for wealth not to be the point of focus, as the contrast in vv. 28-30 will show, and for rich people to trust God. Wealth was not an automatic sign of blessing as far as Jesus was concerned.
[18:24] 10 sn The kingdom of God is a major theme of Jesus. It is a realm in which Jesus rules and to which those who trust him belong. See Luke 6:20; 11:20; 17:20-21.
[19:43] 11 sn Jesus now predicted the events that would be fulfilled in the fall of Jerusalem in
[19:43] 12 sn An embankment refers to either wooden barricades or earthworks, or a combination of the two.