Discovery BoxLuke 10:35 
Context10:35 The 1 next day he took out two silver coins 2 and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever else you spend, I will repay you when I come back this way.’ 3
Luke 12:3
Context12:3 So then 4 whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered 5 in private rooms 6 will be proclaimed from the housetops. 7
1 tn Grk “And the.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
2 tn Grk “two denarii.”
sn The two silver coins were denarii. A denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s pay for a laborer; this would be an amount worth about two days’ pay.
3 tn Grk “when I come back”; the words “this way” are part of an English idiom used to translate the phrase.
4 tn Or “because.” Understanding this verse as a result of v. 2 is a slightly better reading of the context. Knowing what is coming should impact our behavior now.
5 tn Grk “spoken in the ear,” an idiom. The contemporary expression is “whispered.”
6 sn The term translated private rooms refers to the inner room of a house, normally without any windows opening outside, the most private location possible (BDAG 988 s.v. ταμεῖον 2).
7 tn The expression “proclaimed from the housetops” is an idiom for proclaiming something publicly (L&N 7.51). Roofs of many first century Jewish houses in Judea and Galilee were flat and had access either from outside or from within the house. Something shouted from atop a house would be heard by everyone in the street below.
