Lukas 1:2
Konteks1:2 like the accounts 1 passed on 2 to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word 3 from the beginning. 4
Lukas 1:14
Konteks1:14 Joy and gladness will come 5 to you, and many will rejoice at 6 his birth, 7
Lukas 23:19
Konteks23:19 (This 8 was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection 9 started in the city, and for murder.) 10
Lukas 23:31
Konteks23:31 For if such things are done 11 when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” 12
[1:2] 1 tn Grk “even as”; this compares the recorded tradition of 1:1 with the original eyewitness tradition of 1:2.
[1:2] 3 sn The phrase eyewitnesses and servants of the word refers to a single group of people who faithfully passed on the accounts about Jesus. The language about delivery (passed on) points to accounts faithfully passed on to the early church.
[1:2] 4 tn Grk “like the accounts those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word passed on to us.” The location of “in the beginning” in the Greek shows that the tradition is rooted in those who were with Jesus from the start.
[1:14] 5 tn Grk “This will be joy and gladness.”
[1:14] 7 tn “At his birth” is more precise as the grammatical subject (1:58), though “at his coming” is a possible force, since it is his mission, as the following verses note, that will really bring joy.
[23:19] 8 tn Grk “who” (a continuation of the previous sentence).
[23:19] 9 sn Ironically, what Jesus was alleged to have done, started an insurrection, this man really did.
[23:19] 10 sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.
[23:31] 11 tn Grk “if they do such things.” The plural subject here is indefinite, so the active voice has been translated as a passive (see ExSyn 402).
[23:31] 12 sn The figure of the green wood and the dry has been variously understood. Most likely the picture compares the judgment on Jesus as the green (living) wood to the worse judgment that will surely come for the dry (dead) wood of the nation.
