Lukas 9:10

The Feeding of the Five Thousand

9:10 When ¹  the apostles returned, ²  they told Jesus ³  everything they had done. Then ⁴  he took them with him and they withdrew privately to a town ⁵  called Bethsaida. ⁶ 

Lukas 9:18

Peter’s Confession

9:18 Once ⁷  when Jesus ⁸  was praying ⁹  by himself, and his disciples were nearby, he asked them, ¹⁰  “Who do the crowds say that I am?” ¹¹ 

Lukas 11:48

11:48 So you testify that you approve of ¹²  the deeds of your ancestors, ¹³  because they killed the prophets ¹⁴  and you build their ¹⁵  tombs! ¹⁶ 

Lukas 19:3

19:3 He ¹⁷  was trying to get a look at Jesus, ¹⁸  but being a short man he could not see over the crowd. ¹⁹ 

[9:10]  ¹ tn Grk “And when.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[9:10]  ² tn The participle ὑποστρέψαντες (Jupostreyante") has been taken temporally.

[9:10]  ³ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:10]  ⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[9:10]  ⁵ tc There is a seeming myriad of variants for this text. Many mss read εἰς τόπον ἔρημον (ei" topon erhmon, “to a deserted place”; א*^,2 [1241]) or εἰς τόπον ἔρημον πόλεως καλουμένης Βηθσαϊδά (ei" topon erhmon polew" kaloumenh" Bhqsai>da, “to a deserted place of a town called Bethsaida”; [A] C W Ξ^mg [Ë^1,13] [565] Ï) here, while others have εἰς κώμην λεγομένην Βηδσαϊδά (ei" kwmhn legomenhn Bhdsai>da, “to a village called Bedsaida”; D), εἰς κώμην καλουμένην Βηθσαϊδά εἰς τόπον ἔρημον (ei" kwmhn kaloumenhn Bhqsai>da ei" topon erhmon, “to a village called Bethsaida to a deserted place”; Θ), or εἰς τόπον καλουμένον Βηθσαϊδά (ei" topon kaloumenon Bhqsaida, “to a place called Bethsaida”; Ψ). The Greek behind the translation (εἰς πόλιν καλουμένην Βηθσαϊδά, ei" polin kaloumenhn Bhqsai>da) is supported by (Ì⁷⁵) א¹ B L Ξ* 33 2542 pc co. The variants can be grouped generally into those that speak of a “deserted place” and those that speak of a place/city/town called Bethsaida. The Byzantine reading is evidently a conflation of the earlier texts, and should be dismissed as secondary. The variants that speak of a deserted place are an assimilation to Mark 6:32, as well a harmonization with v. 12, and should also be regarded as secondary. The reading that best explains the rise of the others – both internally and externally – is the one that stands behind the translation and is found in the text of NA²⁷.

[9:10]  tn Or “city.”

[9:10]  ⁶ sn Bethsaida was a town on the northeast side of the Sea of Galilee. Probably this should be understood to mean a place in the vicinity of the town. It represents an attempt to reconcile the location with the place of the miraculous feeding that follows.

[9:18]  ⁷ tn Grk “And it happened that.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[9:18]  ⁸ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:18]  ⁹ sn Prayer is a favorite theme of Luke and he is the only one of the gospel authors to mention it in the following texts (with the exception of 22:41): Luke 3:21; 5:16; 6:12; 9:28-29; 11:1; 22:41; 23:34, 46.

[9:18]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the disciples were with him, and he asked them, saying.”

[9:18]  ¹¹ sn “Who do the crowds say that I am?” The question of who Jesus is occurs frequently in this section of Luke: 7:49; 8:25; 9:9. The answer resolves a major theme of Luke’s Gospel.

[11:48]  ¹² tn Grk “you are witnesses and approve of.”

[11:48]  ¹³ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

[11:48]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “them”; the referent (the prophets) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:48]  ¹⁵ tn “Their,” i.e., the prophets.

[11:48]  ¹⁶ tc The majority of mss list a specific object (“their tombs”), filling out the sentence (although there are two different words for “tombs” among the mss, as well as different word orders: αὐτῶν τὰ μνημεῖα (autwn ta mnhmeia; found in A C W Θ Ψ 33 Ï) and τοὺς τάφους αὐτῶν (tou" tafou" autwn; found in Ë^1,[13] 2542 pc). This suggests that early copyists had no term in front of them but felt the verb needed an object. But since a wide distribution of early Alexandrian and Western mss lack these words (Ì⁷⁵ א B D L 579 1241 it sa), it is likely that they were not part of the original text of Luke. Nevertheless, the words “their tombs” are inserted in the translation because of requirements of English style.

[19:3]  ¹⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[19:3]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “He was trying to see who Jesus was.”

[19:3]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “and he was not able to because of the crowd, for he was short in stature.”