Exegesis:

tis ek tou ochlou ‘somebody in the crowd,’ cf. on 11.27.

didaskale ‘master,’ cf. on 3.12.

merisasthai met’ emou tēn klēronomian ‘to share the inheritance with me,’ dependent upon eipe ‘tell.’ The infinitive merisasthai has obligatory force, i.e. ‘that he must share.’

merizomai ‘to share with,’ followed by meta with genitive.

klēronomia (also 20.14) ‘inheritance,’ ‘estate,’ i.e. what is left after the father’s death.

Translation:

Bid, or, ‘please, tell/say-to/order.’

Brother, see 6.14. If one has to choose between terms for different kinds of brothers, the decision must be made on the basis of the situation most likely to occur in the receptor culture; hence ‘son of my father,’ ‘elder-brother’ (many cultures), ‘youngest brother’ (as might be preferable in some parts of Bali, since there the youngest brother usually stays to live with the father after his brothers have gone off to live on their own), ‘brother-of-the-same-mother’ (in some matrilineal societies), and so on.

Divide … with me, or, ‘give me my part of’ (Tae’ 1933).

The inheritance may be described here, if necessary, ‘the property our (exclusive) father left (us) at his death.’

Quoted with permission from Reiling, J. and Swellengrebel, J.L. A Handbook on the Gospel of Luke. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1971. For this and other handbooks for translators see here . Make sure to also consult the Handbook on the Gospel of Mark for parallel or similar verses.