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Luke 17:2

1 sn See the note on tax collectors in 3:12.

2 tn Grk “were drawing near.”

Luke 17:3

3 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

4 sn See the note on Pharisees in 5:17.

5 tn Or “and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 5:21.

6 tn Or “grumbling”; Grk “were complaining, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

7 tn Or “accepts,” “receives.” This is not the first time this issue has been raised: Luke 5:27-32; 7:37-50.

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8 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate that Jesus’ telling of the parable is in response to the complaints of the Pharisees and experts in the law.

9 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

10 sn Them means at the minimum the parable is for the leadership, but probably also for those people Jesus accepted, but the leaders regarded as outcasts.

11 tn Grk “parable, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

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Luke 17:7

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Luke 17:35

1 tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

2 tn These are not formal legal charges, but reports from friends, acquaintances, etc.; Grk “A certain man was rich who had a manager, and this one was reported to him as wasting his property.”

3 sn His manager was the steward in charge of managing the house. He could have been a slave trained for the role.

4 tn Or “squandering.” This verb is graphic; it means to scatter (L&N 57.151).

Luke 17:36

5 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the result of the reports the man received about his manager.

6 tn Grk “him”; the referent (the manager) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

7 sn Although phrased as a question, the charges were believed by the owner, as his dismissal of the manager implies.

8 tn Or “stewardship”; the Greek word οἰκονομία (oikonomia) is cognate with the noun for the manager (οἰκονόμος, oikonomo").

Luke 17:37

9 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events in the parable.

10 tn Grk “the stewardship,” “the management.”

11 tn Here “dig” could refer (1) to excavation (“dig ditches,” L&N 19.55) or (2) to agricultural labor (“work the soil,” L&N 43.3). In either case this was labor performed by the uneducated, so it would be an insult as a job for a manager.

12 tn Grk “I do not have strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg.”

sn To beg would represent a real lowering of status for the manager, because many of those whom he had formerly collected debts from, he would now be forced to beg from.