Luke 19:10-12

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Luke 19:10 sn The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost is Jesus’ mission succinctly defined. See Luke 15:1-32.
2. Luke 19:11 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3. Luke 19:11 tn The present active infinitive δοκεῖν (dokein) has been translated as causal.
4. Luke 19:11 sn Luke means here the appearance of the full kingdom of God in power with the Son of Man as judge as Luke 17:22-37 describes.
5. Luke 19:11 tn Or perhaps, “the kingdom of God must appear immediately (see L&N 71.36).
6. Luke 19:12 tn Grk “a man of noble birth” or “a man of noble status” (L&N 87.27).
7. Luke 19:12 sn Note that the receiving of the kingdom takes place in the far country. This suggests that those in the far country recognize and acknowledge the king when his own citizens did not want him as king (v. 14; cf. John 1:11-12).
8. Luke 19:12 sn The background to this story about the nobleman who went…to receive for himself a kingdom had some parallels in the area’s recent history: Archelaus was appointed ethnarch of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea in 4 b.c., but the people did not like him. Herod the Great also made a similar journey to Rome where he was crowned King of Judea in 40 b.c., although he was not able to claim his kingdom until 37 b.c.