Luke 7:43

7:43 Simon answered, ¹  “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.” ²  Jesus ³  said to him, “You have judged rightly.”

Luke 12:18

12:18 Then ⁴  he said, ‘I ⁵  will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

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¹ tn Grk “answering, said.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified to “answered.”

² tn Grk “the one to whom he forgave more” (see v. 42).

³ tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁵ sn Note how often the first person pronoun is present in these verses. The farmer is totally self absorbed.