WEB Bible Footnotes

Luke

Luke 2:26

1) "Christ" (Greek) and "Messiah" (Hebrew) both mean "Anointed One"

Luke 9:31

1) literally, "exodus"

Luke 10:15

1) Hades is the nether realm of the disembodied spirits.

Luke 12:6

1) An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour's wages for an agricultural laborer.

Luke 12:59

1) A lepton is a very small brass Jewish coins worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker's daily wages.

Luke 13:21

1) 3 sata is about 39 liters or a bit more than a bushel

Luke 15:8

1) A drachma coin was worth about 2 days wages for an agricultural laborer.

Luke 16:6

1) 100 batos is about 395 liters, 104 U. S. gallons, or 87 imperial gallons.

Luke 16:7

1) 100 cors = about 3,910 liters, 1,030 U. S. gallons, or 860 imperial gallons.

Luke 17:36

1) This empty verse is included to allow synchronization with other Bibles which include this verse.

Luke 19:13

1) 10 minas was more than 3 year's wages for an agricultural laborer.

Luke 21:2

1) 2 lepta was about 1% of a day's wages for an agricultural laborer.

Luke 23:44

1) Time was counted from sunrise, so the sixth hour was about noon.

Luke 24:13

1) 60 stadia = about 11 kilometers or about 7 miles.