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Luk 12:37. Παρελθὼν διακονήσει) The participle is pleonastic (παρέλκον), and often occurs in similar cases where a banquet is spoken of. See ch. Luk 17:7, παρελθὼν ἀνάπεσε.[123] Sir 29:23 (26), ΠΆΡΕΛΘΕ ΚΌΣΜΗΣΟΝ ΤΡΆΠΕΖΑΝ. This promise of Himself ministering to (serving) His servants is the most distinguishing and greatest of all marks of honour. It is thus that the Bridegroom receives and entertains His friends on the solemn day of the marriage feast.
[123] Go forward and sit to meat. Wahl, Clavis, under ἀνίστημι, ἀναστὰς, attributes this pleonastic junction of a participle with the finite verb to the simplicity of antiquity, which is wont “totum rei ambitum emetiri, nihilque cogitationum, quod eodem spectet, missum facere.”-ED. and TRANSL.