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Luke 10:29
But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
Verse 29. _WILLING TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF_] Wishing to make it appear that he was a _righteous_ man, and that consequently he was in the straight road to the kingdom of God, said, _Who is my neighbour_?...
TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF - Desirous to appear blameless, or to vindicate himself, and show that he had kept the law. Jesus wished to lead him to a proper view of his own sinfulness, and his real departure f...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Seventy Appointed. (Luke 10:1)_ 2. The Return of the Seventy and the True Rejoicing. (Luke 10:17) 3. Jesus Rejoiced in Spirit. (Luke 10:21) 4. The Question of the Lawyer. ...
THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT (Mark 12:28 *, Matthew 22:34 *), and the PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN (Lk. only). The inquirer puts his question in a different form, but the meaning is the same. And in Lk....
Look you--an expert in the law stood up and asked Jesus a test question. "Teacher, he said, "What is it I am to do to become the possessor of eternal life?" He said to him, "What stands written in the...
LABOURERS FOR THE HARVEST (Luke 10:1-16)...
BUT HE, &c. Verses 29-37 peculiar to Luke. WILLING. desiring, as in Luke 10:24. NEIGHBOUR. Compare Matthew 5:43.Leviticus 19:18....
_willing to justify himself_ "before men" a thing which the Pharisees were ever prone to do, Luke 16:15. _who is my neighbour?_ He wants his moral duties to be labelled and defined with the Talmudic...
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
ΘΈΛΩΝ ΔΙΚΑΙΩ͂ΣΑΙ ἙΑΥΤΌΝ. _Desiring to justify himself_ “before men”—a thing which the Pharisees were ever prone to do, Luke 16:15. He felt that Christ’s answer involved a censure and therefore wished...
Ver 29. But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor? 30. And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripp...
_THE GOOD SAMARITAN -- LUKE 10:25-37:_ A lawyer asked Jesus "Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus asked this man what the Scriptures said about eternal life. He said, "Love the Lord...
ΘΈΛΩΝ _praes. act. part., см._ Luke 10:24. Part, может быть причинным, ΔΙΚΑΙΏΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΔΙΚΑΙΌΩ (G1344) объявлять праведным, оправдывать, освобождать от обвинений. Законник хочет оправда...
BUT HE, WILLING TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF, &C.— Interpreters are not agreed in the meaning of these words; for it does not appear what occasion he had for any justification of himself: no accusation had been...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Promoting Kindness (Luke 10:25-37) 25 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 26He said to him, Wh...
But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? BUT HE, WILLING - or 'wishing' [ theloon (G2309)]. TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF, SAID UNTO JESUS, AND WHO IS MY NEIGHBOUR? - to...
25 A lawyer, or one versed in the law of Moses, especially in making it a burden for others than themselves (Luk_11:46), would naturally be interested in the Lord's opinion as to what deeds would meri...
10:29 justifying (e-5) Aorist tense; difficult to express in English. It gives the sense that he wanted to make out that he was in that state, not that he was obtaining it. see ch. 9.60,61, where 'suf...
WHO IS MY NEIGHBOUR?] The 'lawyer' intended to justify himself by showing that, even upon a liberal interpretation of the word 'neighbour,' he had done his duty. He expected Christ to say that a neigh...
PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN (peculiar to Lk). This lawyer is not to be identified with that of Matthew 22:3; Mark 12:28 25-28. See on Matthew 22:35....
THE SEVENTY. THE GOOD SAMARITAN. MARTHA AND MARY 1-16. Choice and mission of the Seventy (peculiar to Lk). Another step in the organisation of the Church. The Seventy receive a subordinate commission,...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS SENDS OUT MORE *DISCIPLES 10:1-12 V1 After this, the *Lord chose 72 other *disciples and sent them out in pairs. He told them to go ahead of...
BUT HE, WILLING TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF... — The question implied a conscience half-awakened and uneasy. It is characteristic that no doubt seems to cross his mind as to his love of God. There he felt that...
CHAPTER 19 THE GOOD SAMARITAN. Luke 10:25 IT would scarcely have accorded with the traditions of human nature had the teachers of religion looked favorably upon Jesus. Stepping, as He did, within th...
δικαιῶσαι ἑ., to keep up his character as a righteous man, concerned in all things to do his duty. Hence his desire for a definition of “neighbour,” which was an elastic term. Whether Lk. thinks of hi...
_The lawyer's question, and the parable of the good Samaritan_. Many critics (even Weiss, Mk.-Evang., p. 400) think that Lk. or his source has got the theme of this section from Matthew 22:35 ff., Mar...
THE MAN WHO LOVED HIS NEIGHBOR Luke 10:25-37 This parable was probably suggested by the journey up to Jerusalem. It may be founded on an actual occurrence. Notice how the Master answered the inquiry,...
The mission of the seventy is recorded only by Luke. They went forth, sent by Jesus. They returned glad in the victories they had wrought in His name. He received them, and declared to them the whole...
(9) But he, willing (k) to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? (9) The law defines our neighbour as anyone at all that we may help. (k) That is, to vouch his righteousness, or...
_Neighbour? It appears this was a celebrated controversy among the doctors of the law; some probably affirming, that the Jews only were so; while others maintained that their friends alone were their...
THE GOOD SAMARITAN Luke 10:29-37. “And he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor? And Jesus, responding, said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell a...
_The Priest and the Levite._ Lightfoot has proved that the Rabbins did not, in general, regard as their neighbours those who were not members of the Jewish nation. Perhaps the subject afforded matter...
_The good Samaritan._ How is such love to be attained? This would have been the question put by the scribe, had be been in the state of soul which Paul describes Romans 7, and which is the normal pre...
(25) And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? (26) He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? (27) And he...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
_THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHARACTER_ ‘Who is my neighbour?’ Luke 10:29 The turning-point in the development of a character has an interest of its own. Whether these words represented the actual turning-p...
_SELF JUSTIFICATION_ ‘But he, willing to justify himself, said …’ Luke 10:29 The lawyer said—then comes his own particular plea or excuse, to which we need pay little or no attention now, it was so...
29._But he wishing to justify himself. _This question might appear to be of no importance for _justifying _a man. But if we recollect what was formerly stated, that the hypocrisy of men is elderly det...
The mission of the seventy follows in chapter 10, a mission important in its character for the development of the ways of God. This character is, in fact, different in some respects from that of the b...
BUT HE WILLING TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF,.... Upon the foot of his own righteousness, and to make himself appear to be righteous to others; for this the Jews thought themselves able to do, both to justify th...
But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? Ver. 29. _Who is my neighbour?_] They counted no man their neighbour but their near friends....
_But he, willing to justify himself_ That is, to show he had done this, and was blameless, even with respect to the duties which are least liable to be counterfeited, namely, the social and relative d...
JUSTIFY HIMSELF; maintain that he could not be condemned for having broken the divine law. WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR? who is the person whom I am to love as myself?...
THE SENDING OF SEVENTY OTHERS (vs.1-16) As we progress in this Gospel, earthly things tend to recede and heaven comes gradually more into view, specially following the transfiguration (ch.9:8-36) an...
25-37 If we speak of eternal life, and the way to it, in a careless manner, we take the name of God in vain. No one will ever love God and his neighbour with any measure of pure, spiritual love, who...
This lawyer's desire to justify himself spake him a hypocrite. The reason of that question, WHO IS MY NEIGHBOUR? was the notion of the neighbour (mentioned in the law) which the scribes and Pharisees...
Clement of Alexandria Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved? consequently God above thyself. And on His interlocutor inquiring, "Who is my neighbour? "[39]...
Luke 10:29 But G1161 wanting G2309 (G5723) justify G1344 (G5721) himself G1438 said G2036 (G5627) to...
THE TESTING OF JESUS AND THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN (10:25-37). We should note that this passage, and the parable it contains, follows directly on the idea of the previous self-revelation of Je...
‘But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbour?” ' But the Scribe wanted to justify his coming to Jesus so he asked a crunch question, “And who is my neighbour?” ' He q...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
THIS incident, peculiar to Luke, must be distinguished from a later one, mentioned by Matthew, Mark, and Luke, namely, that of the rich young ruler whom Jesus loved. A similar question was put in that...
Luke 10:29. BUT HE, WISHING TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF, to declare himself righteous, over against the implied charge. He would defend himself by claiming that he had fulfilled the command in the sense which...
DESIRING TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF (θελων δικαιωσα εαυτον). The lawyer saw at once that he had convicted himself of asking a question that he already knew. In his embarrassment he asks another question to...
Luke 10:25 The Good Samaritan. I. It is clear that the kindness of this man was of the spirit, and not merely of the letter. Here was one main point of difference between him and the priest and Levi...
Luke 10:25. _And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy hear...
Luke 10:25. _And, behold a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?_ That was...
CONTENTS: The 70 sent out. Jesus denounces Judgment on cities. Parable of the good Samaritan. Martha and Mary entertain Jesus. CHARACTERS: Jesus, 70 witnesses, Satan, lawyer, Martha, Mary. CONCLUSION...
Luke 10:1. _The Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two._ This was after the twelve had returned, and brought reports of the eager cries of the people for the word of life. Some o...
25-29. A certain teacher OF THE Law. Only Luke tells the Parable of the Good Samaritan, the Lost Son, and the Rich Man and Lazarus. Tried to TRAP Jesus. His motive was not right. WHAT MUST I DO? Jesus...
_And who is my neighbour?_ SELF-JUSTIFICATION The lawyer said--“Then comes his own particular plea or excuse, to which I intend to pay little or no attention now, it was so completely and triumphant...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 10:25 The parable of the good Samaritan is an example of how the “wise and understanding” (v. Luke 10:21) do not understand even the simplest commands of Scripture (compare v....
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 10:29 WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR? A deceitful question, because the lawyer was trying to eliminate responsibility for others by making some people “non-neighbors” (see note on v. 36)....
CHAPTER 10 VER. 1. _After these things the Lord also._ Seventy-two. Vulgate. Dorotheus and others profess to give their names, but Eusebius declares that he knew of no written list of these seventy di...
_But he, willing to justify himself._ To justify himself, _i.e_. to show himself to be more just than others. "Show me any one who comes nigh me in righteousness, who is as just and upright as I am. S...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 10:25. A CERTAIN LAWYER.—One whose business it was to teach the law. It was probably in Judæa that this conversation was held; as we read (Luke 10:38) that Jesus was on His way t...
EXPOSITION LUKE 10:1 _The mission of the seventy. The Lord_'_s words to them of instruction and direction and warning._ LUKE 10:1 AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED OTHER SEVENTY ALSO. That is...
Now in chapter 10, we read of this commissioning in the sending forth of the seventy, in the contrast to the twelve of chapter 9. After these things (Luke 10:1) Now He is on His way towards Jerusale...
Galatians 3:11; James 2:24; Job 32:2; Leviticus 19:34; Luke 16:15;...
Willing [θ ε λ ω ν]. Rev., desiring. See on Matthew 1:19. I think this is stronger than desiring; rather, determined. Neighbor [π λ η σ ι ο ν]. See on Matthew 5:43....
THE MESSAGE OF THE JERICHO ROAD Luke 10:25 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. THE MAN WHO MADE HIS BOAST OF THE LAW A certain lawyer tempted Christ, asking Him what he should do to inherit eternal life. The Lor...
To justify himself — That is, to show he had done this. Leviticus 18:5....
The design of our Saviour in this parable is to convince the lawyer, who put that question to him, WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR? (verse 29) that every one is, and ought to be, accounted our neighbor, to whom Go...