Luke 11:43

11:43 Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seats in the synagogues and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces!

Luke 14:13

14:13 But when you host an elaborate meal, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.

tn Or “seats of honor.” The term here is plural and is not a reference only to the lead “seat of Moses” in the synagogue, but includes the front seats near the ark.

sn See the note on synagogues in 4:15.

tn Grk “and the greetings.”

sn The later Jewish summary of oral tradition, the Talmud, notes elaborate greetings for rabbis. The rebuke here is for pride.

tn This term, δοχή (doch), is a third term for a meal (see v. 12) that could also be translated “banquet, feast.”

sn Normally the term means crippled as a result of being maimed or mutilated (L&N 23.177).

tn Here “and” has been supplied between the last two elements in the series in keeping with English style.

sn This list of needy is like Luke 7:22. See Deut 14:28-29; 16:11-14; 26:11-13.