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Luke 19:17-19
New English Translation

17 And the king[a] said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful[b] in a very small matter, you will have authority[c] over ten cities.’ 18 Then[d] the second one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’ 19 So[e] the king[f] said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 19:17 tn Grk “he”; the referent (the nobleman of v. 12, now a king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. Luke 19:17 tn See Luke 16:10.
  3. Luke 19:17 sn The faithful slave received expanded responsibility (authority over ten cities) as a result of his faithfulness; this in turn is an exhortation to faithfulness for the reader.
  4. Luke 19:18 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
  5. Luke 19:19 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the second slave’s report.
  6. Luke 19:19 tn Grk “he”; the referent (the nobleman of v. 12, now a king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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