Luke 2:46

2:46 After 1  three days 2  they found him in the temple courts, 3  sitting among the teachers, 4  listening to them and asking them questions.

Luke 7:3

7:3 When the centurion 5  heard 6  about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders 7  to him, asking him to come 8  and heal his slave.

1 tn Grk “And it happened that after.” 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.

2 sn Three days means there was one day out, another day back, and a third day of looking in Jerusalem.

3 tn Grk “the temple.”

4 tn This is the only place in Luke’s Gospel where the term διδάσκαλος (didaskalo", “teacher”) is applied to Jews.

5 tn Grk “he”; the referent (the centurion) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

6 tn The participle ἀκούσας (akousas) has been taken temporally.

7 sn Why some Jewish elders are sent as emissaries is not entirely clear, but the centurion was probably respecting ethnic boundaries, which were important in ancient Greco-Roman and Jewish culture. The parallel account in Matt 8:5-13 does not mention the emissaries.

8 tn The participle ἐλθών (elqwn) has been translated as an infinitive in parallel with διασώσῃ (diaswsh) due to requirements of contemporary English style.