Lukas 8:46

8:46 But Jesus said, “Someone touched me, for I know that power has gone out ¹  from me.”

Lukas 15:31

15:31 Then ²  the father ³  said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours.

Lukas 20:24

20:24 “Show me a denarius. ⁴  Whose image ⁵  and inscription are on it?” ⁶  They said, “Caesar’s.”

[8:46]  ¹ tn This is a consummative perfect. Jesus sensed that someone had approached him to be healed, as his reference to power makes clear. The perception underlies Jesus’ prophetic sense as well.

[15:31]  ² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events in the parable.

[15:31]  ³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the father) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:24]  ⁴ tn Here the specific name of the coin was retained in the translation, because not all coins in circulation in Palestine at the time carried the image of Caesar. In other places δηνάριον (dhnarion) has been translated simply as “silver coin” with an explanatory note.

[20:24]  sn A denarius was a silver coin worth approximately one day’s wage for a laborer. The fact that the leaders had such a coin showed that they already operated in the economic world of Rome. The denarius would have had a picture of Tiberius Caesar, the Roman emperor, on it.

[20:24]  ⁵ tn Or “whose likeness.”

[20:24]  sn In this passage Jesus points to the image (Grk εἰκών, eikwn) of Caesar on the coin. This same Greek word is used in Gen 1:26 (LXX) to state that humanity is made in the “image” of God. Jesus is making a subtle yet powerful contrast: Caesar’s image is on the denarius, so he can lay claim to money through taxation, but God’s image is on humanity, so he can lay claim to each individual life.

[20:24]  ⁶ tn Grk “whose likeness and inscription does it have?”