<TITLE>Luke</TITLE>
11:1 - "Jesus" - Greek he
11:3 - "our daily bread" - Or our bread for tomorrow
11:8 - "impudence" - Or persistence
11:11 - "his son asks for" - Some manuscripts insert bread, will give him a stone; or if he asks for
11:37 - "Jesus" - Greek he

12:5 - "hell" - Greek Gehenna
12:6 - "two pennies" - Greek two assaria; an assarion was a Roman copper coin worth about 1/16 of a denarius (which was a day's wage for a laborer)
12:25 - "a single hour to his span of life?" - Or a single cubit to his stature; a cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
12:27 - "Consider... spin" - Some manuscripts Consider the lilies; they neither spin nor weave
12:31 - "his" - Some manuscripts God's
12:35 - "Stay dressed for action" - Greek Let your loins stay girded; compare Exodus 12:11
12:37 - "servants" - Greek bondservants
12:39 - "coming, he" - Some manuscripts add would have stayed awake and
12:43 - "servant" - Greek bondservant; also verses 45, 46, 47
12:59 - "penny" - Greek lepton, a Jewish bronze or copper coin worth about 1/128 of a denarius (which was a day's wage for a laborer)

14:5 - "a son" - Some manuscripts a donkey
14:12 - "brothers" - Or your brothers and sisters. The plural Greek word adelphoi (translated "brothers") refers to siblings in a family. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, adelphoi may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters
14:17 - "servant" - Greek bondservant; also verses 21, 22, 23
14:24 - "you" - The Greek word for you here is plural

15:8 - "ten silver coins" - Greek ten drachmas; a drachma was a Greek coin approximately equal in value to a Roman denarius, worth about a day's wage for a laborer
15:15 - "hired himself out to" - Greek joined himself to
15:21 - "called your son" - Some manuscripts add treat me as one of your hired servants
15:22 - "servants" - Greek bondservants

16:6 - "hundred measures" - About 875 gallons
16:7 - "hundred measures" - Between 1,000 and 1,200 bushels
16:8 - "world" - Greek age
16:9 - "wealth" - Greek mammon, a Semitic word for money or possessions; also verse 11; rendered money in verse 13
16:16 - "everyone... into it" - Or everyone is forcefully urged into it
16:22 - "side" - Greek bosom; also verse 23
16:28 - "brothers" - Or brothers and sisters

17:1 - "Temptations to sin" - Greek Stumbling blocks
17:2 - "sin" - Greek stumble
17:7 - "servant" - Greek bondservant; also verse 9
17:8 - "dress properly" - Greek gird yourself
17:10 - "servants" - Greek bondservants
17:12 - "lepers" - Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
17:19 - "has made you well" - Or has saved you
17:21 - "in the midst of you" - Or within you, or within your grasp
17:24 - Some manuscripts omit in his day
17:35 - Some manuscripts add verse 36: Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left
17:37 - "corpse" - Greek body
17:37 - "vultures" - Or eagles

18:11 - "standing by himself, prayed" - Or standing, prayed to himself
18:29 - "wife or brothers" - Or wife or brothers and sisters

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