Luke 10:1,2
THE MISSION OF THE SEVENTY. The plenteous harvest:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MISSION OF THE SEVENTY. The plenteous harvest:... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED OTHER SEVENTY ALSO, AND SENT THEM TWO AND TWO BEFORE HIS FACE INTO EVERY CITY AND PLACE WHITHER HE HIMSELF WOULD COME.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE SAID HE UNTO THEM, THE HARVEST TRULY IS GREAT, BUT THE LABORERS ARE FEW; PRAY YE THEREFORE THE LORD OF THE HARVEST THAT HE WOULD SEND FORTH LABORERS INTO HIS HARVEST. The Lord was constantly seeking more disciples, as the last incidents plainly show; His word of invitation went out again a... [ Continue Reading ]
GO YOUR WAYS; BEHOLD, I SEND YOU FORTH AS LAMBS AMONG WOLVES.... [ Continue Reading ]
The first instructions:... [ Continue Reading ]
CARRY NEITHER PURSE, NOR SCRIP, NOR SHOES; AND SALUTE NO MAN BY THE WAY,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND INTO WHATSOEVER HOUSE YE ENTER, FIRST SAY, PEACE BE TO THIS HOUSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF. THE SON OF PEACE BE THERE, YOUR PEACE SHALL REST UPON IT; IF NOT, IT SHALL TURN TO YOU AGAIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THE SAME HOUSE REMAIN, EATING- AND DRINKING SUCH, THINGS AS THEY GIVE; FOR THE LABORER IS WORTHY OF HIS HIRE. GO NOT FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE. Throughout the instructions the note is sounded: It is the business of the King; and the business of the King requireth haste. In general, these marching o... [ Continue Reading ]
AND INTO WHATSOEVER CITY YE ENTER, AND THEY RECEIVE YOU, EAT SUCH THINGS AS ARE SET BEFORE YOU;... [ Continue Reading ]
Further instructions:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HEAL THE SICK THAT ARE THEREIN, AND SAY UNTO THEM, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS COME NIGH UNTO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT INTO WHATSOEVER CITY YE ENTER, AND THEY RECEIVE YOU NOT, GO YOUR WAYS OUT INTO THE STREETS OF THE SAME AND SAY,... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN THE VERY DUST OF YOUR CITY WHICH CLEAVETH ON US WE DO WIPE OFF AGAINST YOU; NOTWITHSTANDING BE YE SURE OF THIS, THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS COME NIGH UNTO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I SAY UNTO YOU THAT IT SHALL BE MORE TOLERABLE IN THAT DAY FOR SODOM THAN FOR THAT CITY. What was said of individual houses is now repeated with respect to entire cities. wherever the reception was kind and in accordance with the dignity of their calling, there they should remain, eating the thi... [ Continue Reading ]
WOE UNTO THEE, CHORAZIN! WOE UNTO THEE, BETHSAIDA! FOR IF THE MIGHTY WORKS HAD BEEN DONE IN TYRE AND SIDON WHICH HAVE BEEN DONE IN YOU, THEY HAD A GREAT WHILE AGO REPENTED, SITTING IN SACKCLOTH AND ASHES.... [ Continue Reading ]
Woes upon several cities of Galilee:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IT SHALL BE MORE TOLERABLE FOR TYRE AND SIDON AT THE JUDGMENT THAN FOR YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THOU, CAPERNAUM, WHICH ART EXALTED TO HEAVEN, SHALT BE THRUST DOWN TO HELL.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT HEARETH YOU HEARETH ME; AND HE THAT DESPISETH YOU DESPISETH ME; AND HE THAT DESPISETH ME DESPISETH HIM THAT SENT ME. See Matthew 11:21. The question of the guilt of those that reject the Gospel calls to the mind of Jesus the behavior of the cities of Galilee in whose neighborhood some of His... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SEVENTY RETURNED AGAIN WITH JOY, SAYING, LORD, EVEN THE DEVILS ARE SUBJECT UNTO US THROUGH THY NAME.... [ Continue Reading ]
The return and report of the seventy:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, I BEHELD SATAN AS LIGHTNING FALL FROM HEAVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, I GIVE UNTO YOU POWER TO TREAD ON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS, AND OVER ALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY; AND NOTHING SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOTWITHSTANDING IN THIS REJOICE NOT, THAT THE SPIRITS ARE SUBJECT UNTO YOU, BUT RATHER REJOICE BECAUSE YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN. The mission of the seventy was attended with great success, as Luke here reports at once, and they returned with joy. They were especially elated over the fact tha... [ Continue Reading ]
The exultation of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THAT HOUR JESUS REJOICED IN SPIRIT AND SAID, I THANK THEE, O FATHER, LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, THAT THOU HAST HID THESE THINGS FROM THE WISE AND PRUDENT, AND HAST REVEALED THEM UNTO BABES. EVEN SO, FATHER; FOR SO IT SEEMED GOOD IN THY SIGHT.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THINGS ARE DELIVERED TO ME OF MY RATHER; AND NO MAN KNOWETH WHO THE SON IS BUT THE FATHER; AND WHO THE FATHER IS BUT THE SON, AND HE TO WHOM THE SON WILL REVEAL HIM. There is a note of triumph in these words of Jesus, that the salvation of men is going on in spite of all efforts of the enemy to... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TURNED HIM UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, AND SAID PRIVATELY, BLESSED ARE THE EYES WHICH SEE THE THINGS THAT YE SEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GOOD SAMARITAN. The blessedness of Christ's disciples:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I TELL YOU THAT MANY PROPHETS AND KINGS HAVE DESIRED TO SEE THOSE THINGS WHICH YE SEE, AND HAVE NOT SEEN THEM; AND TO HEAR THOSE THINGS WHICH YE HEAR, AND HAVE NOT HEARD THEM. The disciples were not conscious of their great privilege, nor did they value it as highly as they should have. Jesus, t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, A CERTAIN LAWYER STOOD, UP AND TEMPTED HIM, SAYING, MASTER, WHAT SHALL I DO TO INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE?... [ Continue Reading ]
The question of the lawyer:... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SAID, UNTO HIM, WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW? HOW READEST THOU?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE, ANSWERING, SAID, THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD, THY GOD, WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL THY MIND; AND THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, THOU HAST ANSWERED RIGHT; THIS DO, AND THOU SHALT LIVE. A lawyer, a man versed in the Law and the traditions of the Jews, one of those that belonged to the wise and prudent of the world, stood up before or against Jesus, as His opponent. His purpose was deliberately to tempt Je... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE, WILLING TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF, SAID UNTO JESUS, AND WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus teaches who our neighbor is:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, ANSWERING, SAID, A CERTAIN MAN WENT DOWN FROM JERUSALEM TO JERICHO, AND FELL AMONG THIEVES, WHICH STRIPPED HIM OF HIS RAIMENT, AND WOUNDED HIM, AND DEPARTED, LEAVING HIM HALF DEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BY CHANCE THERE CAME DOWN A CERTAIN PRIEST THAT WAY; AND WHEN HE SAW HIM, HE PASSED BY ON THE OTHER SIDE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND LIKEWISE A LEVITE, WHEN HE WAS AT THE PLACE, CAME AND LOOKED ON HIM, AND PASSED BY ON THE OTHER SIDE. The lawyer was somewhat taken aback at the answer of Jesus, and especially by the pointed: This do! It was his boast that he had always kept the commandments of the Lord, and the implication of... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT A CERTAIN SAMARITAN, AS HE JOURNEYED, CAME WHERE HE WAS; AND WHEN LIE SAW HIM, HE HAD COMPASSION ON HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
The story concluded:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WENT TO HIM, AND BOUND UP HIS WOUNDS, POURING IN OIL AND WINE, AND SET HIM ON HIS OWN BEAST, AND BROUGHT HIM TO AN INN, AND TOOK CARE OF HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ON THE MORROW, WHEN HE DEPARTED, HE TOOK OUT TWO PENCE, AND GAVE THEM TO THE HOST, AND SAID UNTO HIM, TAKE CARE OF HIM; AND WHATSOEVER THOU SPENDEST MORE, WHEN I COME AGAIN, I WILL REPAY THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH NOW OF THESE THREE, THINKEST THOU, WAS NEIGHBOR UNTO HIM THAT FELL AMONG THE THIEVES?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, HE THAT SHOWED MERCY ON HIM. THEN SAID JESUS UNTO HIM, GO; AND DO THOU LIKEWISE. The first two travelers had been Jews, and men of influence in the Jewish nation at that. This man that came last was a Samaritan, of whom the average Jew, as, for instance, this lawyer, believed anything b... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW IT CAME TO PASS, AS THEY WENT, THAT HE ENTERED INTO A CERTAIN VILLAGE; AND A CERTAIN WOMAN NAMED MARTHA RECEIVED HIM INTO HER HOUSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
MARY AND MARTHA.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHE HAD A SISTER CALLED MARY, WHICH ALSO SAT AT JESUS' FEET AND HEARD HIS WORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT MARTHA WAS CUMBERED ABOUT MUCH SERVING, AND CAME TO HIM AND SAID, LORD, DOST THOU NOT CARE THAT MY SISTER HATH LEFT ME TO SERVE ALONE? BID HER THEREFORE THAT SHE HELP ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HER, MARTHA, MARTHA, THOU ART CAREFUL AND TROUBLED ABOUT MANY THINGS; PLAIN... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT ONE THING IS NEEDFUL; AND MARY HATH CHOSEN THAT GOOD PART, WHICH SHALL NOT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HER. It is interesting to see that Luke here again brings a story of women that were disciples of Jesus. As they went, in the continuation of their journey, they came to a certain village. In the opinio... [ Continue Reading ]