Luke Notes
Luke 1
a 1:1 Or are most surely believed
b 1:17 Malachi 4:5, 6
c 1:28 NU-Text omits blessed are you among women.
d 1:29 NU-Text omits when she saw him.
e 1:78 NU-Text reads shall visit.
Luke 2
a 2:5 NU-Text omits wife.
b 2:9 NU-Text omits behold.
c 2:14 NU-Text reads toward men of goodwill.
d 2:17 NU-Text omits widely.
e 2:21 NU-Text reads for His circumcision.
f 2:23 Exodus 13:2, 12, 15
g 2:24 Leviticus 12:8
h 2:33 NU-Text reads And His father and mother.
i 2:37 NU-Text reads a widow until she was eighty-four.
j 2:38 NU-Text reads to God.
k 2:40 NU-Text omits in spirit.
l 2:43 NU-Text reads And His parents.
Luke 3
a 3:2 NU-Text and M-Text read in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas.
b 3:6 Isaiah 40:3–5
c 3:19 NU-Text reads his brother’s wife.
d 3:24 This and several other names in the genealogy are spelled somewhat differently in the NU-Text. Since the New King James Version uses the Old Testament spelling for persons mentioned in the New Testament, these variations, which come from the Greek, have not been footnoted.
Luke 4
a 4:1 NU-Text reads in.
b 4:4 Deuteronomy 8:3
c 4:4 NU-Text omits but by every word of God.
d 4:5 NU-Text reads And taking Him up, he showed Him.
e 4:8 NU-Text omits Get behind Me, Satan.
f 4:8 NU-Text and M-Text omit For.
g 4:8 Deuteronomy 6:13
h 4:11 Psalm 91:11, 12
i 4:12 Deuteronomy 6:16
j 4:18 NU-Text omits to heal the brokenhearted.
k 4:19 Isaiah 61:1, 2
l 4:23 Here and elsewhere the NU-Text spelling is Capharnaum.
m 4:26 Greek Sarepta
n 4:41 NU-Text omits the Christ.
o 4:44 NU-Text reads Judea.
Luke 5
a 5:17 NU-Text reads present with Him to heal.
b 5:30 NU-Text reads But the Pharisees and their scribes.
c 5:33 NU-Text omits Why do, making the verse a statement.
d 5:36 NU-Text reads No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old one.
e 5:38 NU-Text omits and both are preserved.
f 5:39 NU-Text omits immediately.
g 5:39 NU-Text reads good.
Luke 6
a 6:1 NU-Text reads on a Sabbath.
b 6:9 M-Text reads to kill.
c 6:10 NU-Text and M-Text read to him.
d 6:10 NU-Text omits as whole as the other.
e 6:26 NU-Text and M-Text omit to you.
f 6:26 M-Text omits all.
g 6:45 NU-Text omits treasure of his heart.
h 6:48 NU-Text reads for it was well built.
i 6:49 NU-Text reads collapsed.
Luke 7
a 7:10 NU-Text omits who had been sick.
b 7:19 NU-Text reads the Lord.
c 7:27 Malachi 3:1
d 7:28 NU-Text reads there is none greater than John.
e 7:31 NU-Text and M-Text omit And the Lord said.
Luke 8
a 8:3 NU-Text and M-Text read them.
b 8:10 Isaiah 6:9
c 8:26 NU-Text reads Gerasenes.
d 8:27 NU-Text reads who had demons and for a long time wore no clothes.
e 8:37 NU-Text reads Gerasenes.
f 8:45 NU-Text omits and those with him.
g 8:45 NU-Text omits and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’
h 8:48 NU-Text omits be of good cheer.
i 8:49 NU-Text adds anymore.
j 8:51 NU-Text adds with Him.
k 8:51 NU-Text and M-Text read Peter, John, and James.
l 8:54 NU-Text omits put them all outside.
Luke 9
a 9:23 M-Text omits daily.
b 9:35 NU-Text reads This is My Son, the Chosen One.
c 9:50 NU-Text reads you.
d 9:50 NU-Text reads your.
e 9:54 NU-Text omits just as Elijah did.
f 9:55 NU-Text omits the rest of this verse.
g 9:56 NU-Text omits the first sentence of this verse.
Luke 10
a 10:1 NU-Text reads seventy-two others.
b 10:11 NU-Text reads our feet.
c 10:12 NU-Text and M-Text omit But.
d 10:15 NU-Text reads will you be exalted to heaven? You will be thrust down to Hades!
e 10:17 NU-Text reads seventy-two.
f 10:20 NU-Text and M-Text omit rather.
g 10:22 M-Text reads And turning to the disciples He said, “All …
h 10:27 Deuteronomy 6:5
i 10:27 Leviticus 19:18
j 10:35 NU-Text omits when he departed.
k 10:39 NU-Text reads the Lord’s.
l 10:41 NU-Text reads the Lord.
Luke 11
a 11:2 NU-Text omits Our and in heaven.
b 11:2 NU-Text omits the rest of this verse.
c 11:4 NU-Text omits But deliver us from the evil one.
d 11:11 NU-Text omits the words from bread through for in the next sentence.
e 11:15 NU-Text and M-Text read Beelzebul.
f 11:29 NU-Text omits the prophet.
g 11:44 NU-Text omits scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.
h 11:53 NU-Text reads And when He left there.
i 11:54 NU-Text omits and seeking and that they might accuse Him.
Luke 12
a 12:6 Greek assarion, a coin of very small value
b 12:15 NU-Text reads all covetousness.
c 12:31 NU-Text reads His kingdom, and these things.
d 12:39 NU-Text reads he would not have allowed.
Luke 13
a 13:9 NU-Text reads And if it bears fruit after that, well. But if not, you can cut it down.
b 13:15 NU-Text and M-Text read Hypocrites.
c 13:19 NU-Text omits large.
d 13:21 Greek sata, approximately two pecks in all
e 13:31 NU-Text reads In that very hour.
f 13:35 NU-Text and M-Text omit assuredly.
g 13:35 Psalm 118:26
Luke 14
Luke 15
a 15:8 Greek drachma, a valuable coin often worn in a ten-piece garland by married women
b 15:22 NU-Text reads Quickly bring.
Luke 16
a 16:6 Greek batos, eight or nine gallons each (Old Testament bath)
b 16:7 Greek koros, ten or twelve bushels each (Old Testament kor)
c 16:9 NU-Text reads it fails.
d 16:21 NU-Text reads with what fell.
Luke 17
a 17:3 NU-Text omits against you.
b 17:4 M-Text omits to you.
c 17:9 NU-Text ends verse with commanded; M-Text omits him.
d 17:21 NU-Text reverses here and there.
e 17:23 NU-Text reverses here and there.
Luke 18
a 18:20 Exodus 20:12–16; Deuteronomy 5:16–20
b 18:28 NU-Text reads our own.
Luke 19
a 19:5 NU-Text omits and saw him.
b 19:13 The mina (Greek mna, Hebrew minah) was worth about three months’ salary.
c 19:29 M-Text reads Bethsphage.
d 19:38 Psalm 118:26
e 19:45 NU-Text reads those who were selling.
f 19:46 NU-Text reads shall be.
g 19:46 Isaiah 56:7
h 19:46 Jeremiah 7:11
Luke 20
a 20:5 NU-Text and M-Text omit then.
b 20:17 Psalm 118:22
c 20:19 M-Text reads but they were afraid.
d 20:23 NU-Text omits Why do you test Me?
e 20:30 NU-Text ends verse 30 here.
f 20:31 NU-Text and M-Text read the seven also left no children.
g 20:37 Exodus 3:6, 15
h 20:43 Psalm 110:1
Luke 21
a 21:4 NU-Text omits for God.
b 21:8 NU-Text omits Therefore.
c 21:36 NU-Text reads may have strength.
Luke 22
a 22:14 NU-Text omits twelve.
b 22:18 NU-Text adds from now on.
c 22:31 NU-Text omits And the Lord said.
d 22:37 Isaiah 53:12
e 22:44 NU-Text brackets verses 43 and 44 as not in the original text.
f 22:57 NU-Text reads denied it.
g 22:60 NU-Text and M-Text read a rooster.
h 22:61 NU-Text adds today.
i 22:64 NU-Text reads And having blindfolded Him, they asked Him.
j 22:68 NU-Text omits also and Me or let Me go.
Luke 23
a 23:2 NU-Text reads our.
b 23:6 NU-Text omits of Galilee.
c 23:15 NU-Text reads for he sent Him back to us.
d 23:17 NU-Text omits verse 17.
e 23:23 NU-Text omits and of the chief priests.
f 23:25 NU-Text and M-Text omit to them.
g 23:30 Hosea 10:8
h 23:34 NU-Text brackets the first sentence as a later addition.
i 23:38 NU-Text omits written and in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.
j 23:39 NU-Text reads Are You not the Christ?
k 23:42 NU-Text reads And he said, “Jesus, remember me.
l 23:44 NU-Text adds already.
m 23:45 NU-Text reads obscured.
n 23:46 Psalm 31:5
o 23:51 NU-Text reads who was waiting.
Luke 24
a 24:1 NU-Text omits and certain other women with them.
b 24:4 NU-Text omits greatly.
c 24:12 NU-Text omits lying.
d 24:13 Literally sixty stadia
e 24:17 NU-Text reads as you walk? And they stood still, looking sad.
f 24:40 Some printed New Testaments omit this verse. It is found in nearly all Greek manuscripts.
g 24:42 NU-Text omits and some honeycomb.
h 24:46 NU-Text reads written, that the Christ should suffer and rise.
i 24:49 NU-Text omits of Jerusalem.
j 24:53 NU-Text omits praising and.
k 24:53 NU-Text omits Amen.