Discovery BoxLuke 9:61 
Context9:61 Yet 1 another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to my family.” 2
Luke 12:6
Context12:6 Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies? 3 Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.
Luke 18:33
Context18:33 They will flog him severely 4 and kill him. Yet 5 on the third day he will rise again.”
Luke 22:42
Context22:42 “Father, if you are willing, take 6 this cup 7 away from me. Yet not my will but yours 8 be done.”
1 tn Grk “And another also said.”
2 tn Grk “to those in my house.”
3 sn The pennies refer to the assarion, a small Roman copper coin. One of them was worth one sixteenth of a denarius or less than a half hour’s average wage. Sparrows were the cheapest thing sold in the market. God knows about even the most financially insignificant things; see Isa 49:15.
4 tn Traditionally, “scourge” (the term means to beat severely with a whip, L&N 19.9). BDAG 620 s.v. μαστιγόω 1. states, “Of the beating (Lat. verberatio) given those condemned to death…J 19:1; cf. Mt 20:19; Mk 10:34; Lk 18:33.” Here the term has been translated “flog…severely” to distinguish it from the term φραγελλόω (fragellow) used in Matt 27:26; Mark 15:15.
5 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “yet” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
6 tn Luke’s term παρένεγκε is not as exact as the one in Matt 26:39. Luke’s means “take away” (BDAG 772 s.v. παρένεγκε 2.c) while Matthew’s means “take away without touching,” suggesting an alteration (if possible) in God’s plan. For further discussion see D. L. Bock, Luke (BECNT), 2:1759-60.
7 sn This cup alludes to the wrath of God that Jesus would experience (in the form of suffering and death) for us. See Ps 11:6; 75:8-9; Isa 51:17, 19, 22 for this figure.
8 sn With the statement “Not my will but yours be done” Jesus submitted fully to God’s will.
