Luke 6:6

Healing a Withered Hand

6:6 On ¹  another Sabbath, Jesus ²  entered the synagogue ³  and was teaching. Now ⁴  a man was there whose right hand was withered. ⁵ 

Luke 7:45

7:45 You gave me no kiss of greeting, ⁶  but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet.

Luke 8:30

8:30 Jesus then ⁷  asked him, “What is your name?” He ⁸  said, “Legion,” ⁹  because many demons had entered him.

Luke 9:34

9:34 As ¹⁰  he was saying this, a cloud ¹¹  came ¹²  and overshadowed ¹³  them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.

Luke 19:45

Cleansing the Temple

19:45 Then ¹⁴  Jesus ¹⁵  entered the temple courts ¹⁶  and began to drive out those who were selling things there, ¹⁷ 

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¹ tn Grk “Now it happened that on.” 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.

² tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ sn See the note on synagogues in 4:15.

⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic. In addition, because the Greek sentence is rather long and complex, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

⁵ tn Grk “a man was there and his right hand was withered.”

sn Withered means the man’s hand was shrunken and paralyzed.

⁶ tn Grk “no kiss.” This refers to a formalized kiss of greeting, standard in that culture. To convey this to the modern reader, the words “of greeting” have been supplied to qualify what kind of kiss is meant.

⁷ tn Grk “And Jesus.” Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to pick up the sequence of the narrative prior to the parenthetical note by the author.

⁸ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁹ sn The name Legion means “thousands,” a word taken from a Latin term for a large group of soldiers. The term not only suggests a multiple possession, but also adds a military feel to the account. This is a true battle.

¹⁰ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

¹¹ sn This cloud is the cloud of God’s presence and the voice is his as well.

¹² tn Or “appeared.”

¹³ tn Or “surrounded.”

¹⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

¹⁵ tn Grk “he.”

¹⁶ tn Grk “the temple” (also in v. 47).

sn The merchants (those who were selling things there) would have been located in the Court of the Gentiles.

¹⁷ sn Matthew (21:12-27), Mark (11:15-19) and Luke (here, 19:45-46) record this incident of the temple cleansing at the end of Jesus’ ministry. John (2:13-16) records a cleansing of the temple at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. See the note on the word temple courts in John 2:14 for a discussion of the relationship of these accounts to one another.