Luke 17:9

9 numquid gratiam habet servo illi quia fecit quae sibi imperaverat non puto

Luke 17:9 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 17:9

Doth he thank that servant
As if he had done him a favour, and what he was not obliged to;

because he did the things that were commanded him?
for, as a servant, he ought to do them, and in so doing does but his duty: he may indeed be commended for it, but not thanked:

I trow not;
or "I think not"; it do not seem so to me, as if he would, or, as though it was proper and necessary he should. The Ethiopic version leaves out this last clause.

Luke 17:9 In-Context

7 quis autem vestrum habens servum arantem aut pascentem qui regresso de agro dicet illi statim transi recumbe

8 et non dicet ei para quod cenem et praecinge te et ministra mihi donec manducem et bibam et post haec tu manducabis et bibes

9 numquid gratiam habet servo illi quia fecit quae sibi imperaverat non puto

10 sic et vos cum feceritis omnia quae praecepta sunt vobis dicite servi inutiles sumus quod debuimus facere fecimus

11 et factum est dum iret in Hierusalem transiebat per mediam Samariam et Galilaeam