Lukas 5:9

5:9 For ¹  Peter ²  and all who were with him were astonished ³  at the catch of fish that they had taken,

Lukas 11:23

11:23 Whoever is not with me is against me, ⁴  and whoever does not gather with me scatters. ⁵ 

Lukas 12:17

12:17 so ⁶  he thought to himself, ⁷  ‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ ⁸ 

[5:9]  ¹ sn An explanatory conjunction (For) makes it clear that Peter’s exclamation is the result of a surprising set of events. He speaks, but the others feel similarly.

[5:9]  ² tn Grk “he”; the referent (Peter) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:9]  ³ sn In the Greek text, this term is in an emphatic position.

[11:23]  ⁴ sn Whoever is not with me is against me. The call here is to join the victor. Failure to do so means that one is being destructive. Responding to Jesus is the issue.

[11:23]  ⁵ sn For the image of scattering, see Pss. Sol. 17:18.

[12:17]  ⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate that this is a result of the preceding statement.

[12:17]  ⁷ tn Grk “to himself, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated here.

[12:17]  ⁸ sn I have nowhere to store my crops. The thinking here is prudent in terms of recognizing the problem. The issue in the parable will be the rich man’s solution, particularly the arrogance reflected in v. 19.