Lukas 9:10

The Feeding of the Five Thousand

9:10 When ¹  the apostles returned, ²  they told Jesus ³  everything they had done. Then ⁴  he took them with him and they withdrew privately to a town ⁵  called Bethsaida. ⁶ 

Lukas 12:37

12:37 Blessed are those slaves ⁷  whom their master finds alert ⁸  when he returns! I tell you the truth, ⁹  he will dress himself to serve, ¹⁰  have them take their place at the table, ¹¹  and will come ¹²  and wait on them! ¹³ 

Lukas 20:37

20:37 But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised ¹⁴  in the passage about the bush, ¹⁵  where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. ¹⁶ 

[9:10]  ¹ tn Grk “And when.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[9:10]  ² tn The participle ὑποστρέψαντες (Jupostreyante") has been taken temporally.

[9:10]  ³ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:10]  ⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[9:10]  ⁵ tc There is a seeming myriad of variants for this text. Many mss read εἰς τόπον ἔρημον (ei" topon erhmon, “to a deserted place”; א*^,2 [1241]) or εἰς τόπον ἔρημον πόλεως καλουμένης Βηθσαϊδά (ei" topon erhmon polew" kaloumenh" Bhqsai>da, “to a deserted place of a town called Bethsaida”; [A] C W Ξ^mg [Ë^1,13] [565] Ï) here, while others have εἰς κώμην λεγομένην Βηδσαϊδά (ei" kwmhn legomenhn Bhdsai>da, “to a village called Bedsaida”; D), εἰς κώμην καλουμένην Βηθσαϊδά εἰς τόπον ἔρημον (ei" kwmhn kaloumenhn Bhqsai>da ei" topon erhmon, “to a village called Bethsaida to a deserted place”; Θ), or εἰς τόπον καλουμένον Βηθσαϊδά (ei" topon kaloumenon Bhqsaida, “to a place called Bethsaida”; Ψ). The Greek behind the translation (εἰς πόλιν καλουμένην Βηθσαϊδά, ei" polin kaloumenhn Bhqsai>da) is supported by (Ì⁷⁵) א¹ B L Ξ* 33 2542 pc co. The variants can be grouped generally into those that speak of a “deserted place” and those that speak of a place/city/town called Bethsaida. The Byzantine reading is evidently a conflation of the earlier texts, and should be dismissed as secondary. The variants that speak of a deserted place are an assimilation to Mark 6:32, as well a harmonization with v. 12, and should also be regarded as secondary. The reading that best explains the rise of the others – both internally and externally – is the one that stands behind the translation and is found in the text of NA²⁷.

[9:10]  tn Or “city.”

[9:10]  ⁶ sn Bethsaida was a town on the northeast side of the Sea of Galilee. Probably this should be understood to mean a place in the vicinity of the town. It represents an attempt to reconcile the location with the place of the miraculous feeding that follows.

[12:37]  ⁷ tn See the note on the word “slave” in 7:2.

[12:37]  ⁸ tn Or “watching”; Grk “awake,” but in context this is not just being awake but alert and looking out.

[12:37]  ⁹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[12:37]  ¹⁰ tn See v. 35 (same verb).

[12:37]  ¹¹ tn Grk “have them recline at table,” as 1st century middle eastern meals were not eaten while sitting at a table, but while reclining on one’s side on the floor with the head closest to the low table and the feet farthest away.

[12:37]  ¹² tn The participle παρελθών (parelqwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[12:37]  ¹³ sn He…will come and wait on them is a reversal of expectation, but shows that what Jesus asks for he is willing to do as well; see John 13:5 and 15:18-27, although those instances merely foreshadow what is in view here.

[20:37]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “But that the dead are raised even Moses revealed.”

[20:37]  ¹⁵ sn See Exod 3:6. Jesus used a common form of rabbinic citation here to refer to the passage in question.

[20:37]  ¹⁶ sn A quotation from Exod 3:6.