Lukas 4:38

4:38 After Jesus left ¹  the synagogue, he entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus ²  to help her. ³ 

Lukas 4:42

4:42 The next morning ⁴  Jesus ⁵  departed and went to a deserted place. Yet ⁶  the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

Lukas 10:35

10:35 The ⁷  next day he took out two silver coins ⁸  and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever else you spend, I will repay you when I come back this way.’ ⁹ 

Lukas 23:26

The Crucifixion

23:26 As ¹⁰  they led him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene, ¹¹  who was coming in from the country. ¹²  They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus. ¹³ 

[4:38]  ¹ tn Grk “Arising from the synagogue, he entered.” The participle ἀναστάς (anastas) has been taken temporally here, and the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:38]  ² tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:38]  ³ tn Grk “they asked him about her.” It is clear from the context that they were concerned about her physical condition. The verb “to help” in the translation makes this explicit.

[4:42]  ⁴ tn Grk “When it became day.”

[4:42]  ⁵ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:42]  ⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “yet” to indicate that the crowds still sought Jesus in spite of his withdrawal.

[10:35]  ⁷ tn Grk “And the.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[10:35]  ⁸ tn Grk “two denarii.”

[10:35]  sn The two silver coins were denarii. A denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s pay for a laborer; this would be an amount worth about two days’ pay.

[10:35]  ⁹ tn Grk “when I come back”; the words “this way” are part of an English idiom used to translate the phrase.

[23:26]  ¹⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[23:26]  ¹¹ sn Jesus was beaten severely with a whip before this (the prelude to crucifixion, known to the Romans as verberatio, mentioned in Matt 27:26; Mark 15:15; John 19:1), so he would have been weak from trauma and loss of blood. Apparently he was unable to bear the cross himself, so Simon was conscripted to help. Cyrene was located in North Africa where Tripoli is today. Nothing more is known about this Simon. Mark 15:21 names him as father of two people apparently known to Mark’s audience.

[23:26]  ¹² tn Or perhaps, “was coming in from his field” outside the city (BDAG 15-16 s.v. ἀγρός 1).

[23:26]  ¹³ tn Grk “they placed the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.”