Discovery BoxLuke 7:43 
Context7:43 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
Context12:18 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.
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.
