Luke 12:35

Call to Faithful Stewardship

12:35 “Get dressed for service 1  and keep your lamps burning; 2 

Luke 1:23

1:23 When his time of service was over, 3  he went to his home.

1 tn Grk “Let your loins be girded,” an idiom referring to the practice of tucking the ends of the long cloak (outer garment) into the belt to shorten it in preparation for activities like running, etc.

2 sn Keep your lamps burning means to be ready at all times.

3 tn Grk “And it happened that as the days of his service were ended.” 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.