Lukas 1:42

1:42 She ¹  exclaimed with a loud voice, ²  “Blessed are you among women, ³  and blessed is the child ⁴  in your womb!

Lukas 7:50

7:50 He ⁵  said to the woman, “Your faith ⁶  has saved you; ⁷  go in peace.”

Lukas 13:21

13:21 It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with ⁸  three measures ⁹  of flour until all the dough had risen.” ¹⁰ 

[1:42]  ¹ tn Grk “and she.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was begun here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[1:42]  ² tn Grk “and she exclaimed with a great cry and said.” The verb εἶπεν (eipen, “said”) has not been included in the translation since it is redundant in contemporary English.

[1:42]  ³ sn The commendation Blessed are you among women means that Mary has a unique privilege to be the mother of the promised one of God.

[1:42]  ⁴ tn Grk “fruit,” which is figurative here for the child she would give birth to.

[7:50]  ⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[7:50]  ⁶ sn On faith see Luke 5:20; 7:9; 8:25; 12:28; 17:6; 18:8; 22:32.

[7:50]  ⁷ sn The questioning did not stop Jesus. He declared authoritatively that the woman was forgiven by God (your faith has saved you). This event is a concrete example of Luke 5:31-32.

[13:21]  ⁸ tn Grk “hid in.”

[13:21]  ⁹ sn This measure was a saton, the Greek name for the Hebrew term “seah.” Three of these was a very large quantity of flour, since a saton is a little over 16 lbs (7 kg) of dry measure (or 13.13 liters). So this was over 47 lbs (21 kg) of flour total, enough to feed over a hundred people.

[13:21]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “it was all leavened.”

[13:21]  sn The parable of the yeast and the dough teaches that the kingdom of God will start small but eventually grow to permeate everything. Jesus’ point was not to be deceived by its seemingly small start, the same point made in the parable of the mustard seed, which preceded this one.