Lukas 9:25

9:25 For what does it benefit a person ¹  if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

Lukas 16:11-12

16:11 If then you haven’t been trustworthy ²  in handling worldly wealth, ³  who will entrust you with the true riches? ⁴  16:12 And if you haven’t been trustworthy ⁵  with someone else’s property, ⁶  who will give you your own ⁷ ?

Lukas 19:40

19:40 He answered, ⁸  “I tell you, if they ⁹  keep silent, the very stones ¹⁰  will cry out!”

Lukas 23:31

23:31 For if such things are done ¹¹  when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” ¹² 

[9:25]  ¹ tn Grk “a man,” but ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used in a generic sense here to refer to both men and women.

[16:11]  ² tn Or “faithful.”

[16:11]  ³ tn Grk “the unrighteous mammon.” See the note on the phrase “worldly wealth” in v. 9.

[16:11]  ⁴ sn Entrust you with the true riches is a reference to future service for God. The idea is like 1 Cor 9:11, except there the imagery is reversed.

[16:12]  ⁵ tn Or “faithful.”

[16:12]  ⁶ tn Grk “have not been faithful with what is another’s.”

[16:12]  ⁷ tn Grk “what is your own.”

[19:40]  ⁸ tn Grk “and answering, he said.” This has been simplified in the translation to “He answered.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[19:40]  ⁹ tn Grk “these.”

[19:40]  ¹⁰ sn This statement amounts to a rebuke. The idiom of creation speaking means that even creation knows what is taking place, yet the Pharisees miss it. On this idiom, see Gen 4:10 and Hab 2:11.

[23:31]  ¹¹ tn Grk “if they do such things.” The plural subject here is indefinite, so the active voice has been translated as a passive (see ExSyn 402).

[23:31]  ¹² sn The figure of the green wood and the dry has been variously understood. Most likely the picture compares the judgment on Jesus as the green (living) wood to the worse judgment that will surely come for the dry (dead) wood of the nation.