Discovery BoxLuke 4:40 
Context4:40 As the sun was setting, all those who had any relatives 1 sick with various diseases brought them to Jesus. 2 He placed 3 his hands on every one of them and healed them.
Luke 23:26
Context23:26 As 4 they led him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene, 5 who was coming in from the country. 6 They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus. 7
Luke 23:53
Context23:53 Then 8 he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, 9 and placed it 10 in a tomb cut out of the rock, 11 where no one had yet been buried. 12
1 tn Grk “everyone, as many as had those being sick.” The use of εἶχον (eicon, “had”) suggests that the subject of the accusative participle ἀσθενοῦντας (asqenountas, “those being sick”) is not simply acquaintances, but rather relatives, perhaps immediate family, and certainly close friends.
2 tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Or “laid.” The participle ἐπιτεθείς (epiteqei") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
4 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
5 sn Jesus was beaten severely with a whip before this (the prelude to crucifixion, known to the Romans as verberatio, mentioned in Matt 27:26; Mark 15:15; John 19:1), so he would have been weak from trauma and loss of blood. Apparently he was unable to bear the cross himself, so Simon was conscripted to help. Cyrene was located in North Africa where Tripoli is today. Nothing more is known about this Simon. Mark 15:21 names him as father of two people apparently known to Mark’s audience.
6 tn Or perhaps, “was coming in from his field” outside the city (BDAG 15-16 s.v. ἀγρός 1).
7 tn Grk “they placed the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.”
8 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
9 tn The term σινδών (sindwn) can refer to a linen cloth used either for clothing or for burial.
10 tn In the Greek text this pronoun (αὐτόν, auton) is masculine, while the previous one (αὐτό, auto) is neuter, referring to the body.
11 tn That is, cut or carved into an outcropping of natural rock, resulting in a cave-like structure (see L&N 19.26).
12 tc Codex Bezae (D), with some support from 070, one Itala ms, and the Sahidic version, adds the words, “And after he [Jesus] was laid [in the tomb], he [Joseph of Arimathea] put a stone over the tomb which scarcely twenty men could roll.” Although this addition is certainly not part of the original text of Luke, it does show how interested the early scribes were in the details of the burial and may even reflect a very primitive tradition. Matt 27:60 and Mark 15:46 record the positioning of a large stone at the door of the tomb.
tn Or “laid to rest.”
