Luke 12:18-19

12:18 Then ¹  he said, ‘I ²  will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 12:19 And I will say to myself, ³  “You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’

Luke 11:13

11:13 If you then, although you are ⁴  evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit ⁵  to those who ask him!”

Luke 16:25

16:25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, ⁶  remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish. ⁷ 

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

² sn Note how often the first person pronoun is present in these verses. The farmer is totally self absorbed.

³ tn Grk “to my soul,” which is repeated as a vocative in the following statement, but is left untranslated as redundant.

⁵ tn The participle ὑπάρχοντες (Juparconte") has been translated as a concessive participle.

⁶ sn The provision of the Holy Spirit is probably a reference to the wisdom and guidance supplied in response to repeated requests. Some apply it to the general provision of the Spirit, but this would seem to look only at one request in a context that speaks of repeated asking. The teaching as a whole stresses not that God gives everything his children want, but that God gives the good that they need. The parallel account in Matthew (7:11) refers to good things where Luke mentions the Holy Spirit.

⁷ tn The Greek term here is τέκνον (teknon), which could be understood as a term of endearment.

⁸ tn Or “in terrible pain” (L&N 24.92). Here is the reversal Jesus mentioned in Luke 6:20-26.