Exegesis:
kai periblepsamenos pantas autous ‘after looking around at them all,’ i.e. “after looking at each of them in turn” (The Four Gospels – a New Translation).
eipen autō ‘he said to him,’ i.e. the man with the withered hand.
ekteinon tēn cheira sou ‘stretch out your hand,’ i.e. the hand which was withered. The act is best understood as a preparation for the subsequent healing.
ho de epoiēsen ‘and he did (so),’ i.e. as he had been told.
kai apekatestathē hē cheir autou ‘and his hand was restored.’ The use of the verb apokathistēmi ‘to restore’ implies that the hand had been sound once and become withered afterwards (cf. e.g. The Four Gospels – a New Translation, “his hand was made sound once more”).
Translation:
He looked around on them all, or, shifting ‘around’ so as to qualify the object, ‘he looked in the face of the people that sat-around’ (Tae,’ similarly Balinese).
Stretch out your hand, or, ‘make your hand/arm long’ (as idiom requires in Marathi). There is a difference with the identical phrase in 5.13, in that here the reference is to the act and attitude of stretching in itself, whereas the act in 5.13 is done with a certain aim and the specific attitude is less in focus. This may lead to differentiation, cf. ‘to cause-to-be-astretch’ (Bahasa Indonesia), ‘to hold-up’ (Toraja-Sa’dan), here, but ‘to put-out’ (same languages) in 5.13.
He did so, or, ‘he/the man stretched-(it-)out’ (Trukese, similarly several Indonesian languages).
Was restored, or ‘became well again’ (Sranan Tongo, similarly Trukese), ‘was sound as originally’ (Balinese); or simply ‘was healed,’ if the verb in question includes also the cure of non-congenital ailments.
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.
