Luke 2:21

2:21 At 1  the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel 2  before he was conceived in the womb.

Luke 4:2

4:2 where for forty days he endured temptations 3  from the devil. He 4  ate nothing 5  during those days, and when they were completed, 6  he was famished.

Luke 23:7

23:7 When 7  he learned that he was from Herod’s jurisdiction, 8  he sent him over to Herod, 9  who also happened to be in Jerusalem 10  at that time.

1 tn Grk “And when eight days were completed.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

2 sn Jesus’ parents obeyed the angel as Zechariah and Elizabeth had (1:57-66). These events are taking place very much under God’s direction.

3 tn Grk “in the desert, for forty days being tempted.” The participle πειραζόμενος (peirazomeno") has been translated as an adverbial clause in English to avoid a run-on sentence with a second “and.” Here the present participle suggests a period of forty days of testing. Three samples of the end of the testing are given in the following verses.

4 tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

5 sn The reference to Jesus eating nothing could well be an idiom meaning that he ate only what the desert provided; see Exod 34:28. A desert fast simply meant eating only what one could obtain in the desert. The parallel in Matt 4:2 speaks only of Jesus fasting.

6 tn The Greek word here is συντελεσθείσων (suntelesqeiswn) from the verb συντελέω (suntelew).

sn This verb and its cognate noun, sunteleia, usually implies not just the end of an event, but its completion or fulfillment. The noun is always used in the NT in eschatological contexts; the verb is often so used (cf. Matt 13:39, 40; 24:3; 28:20; Mark 13:4; Rom 9:28; Heb 8:8; 9:26). The idea here may be that the forty-day period of temptation was designed for a particular purpose in the life of Christ (the same verb is used in v. 13). The cognate verb teleiow is a key NT term for the completion of God’s plan: See Luke 12:50; 22:37; John 19:30; and (where it has the additional component of meaning “to perfect”) Heb 2:10; 5:8-9; 7:28.

7 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

8 sn Learning that Jesus was from Galilee and therefore part of Herod’s jurisdiction, Pilate decided to rid himself of the problem by sending him to Herod.

9 sn Herod was Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great. See the note on Herod in 3:1.

10 sn Herod would probably have come to Jerusalem for the feast, although his father was only half Jewish (Josephus, Ant. 14.15.2 [14.403]). Josephus does mention Herod’s presence in Jerusalem during a feast (Ant. 18.5.3 [18.122]).

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