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Luke 11:37
And as He spake, a certain Pharisee besought Him to dine with him; and He went in and. sat down to meat.
And as He spake, a certain Pharisee besought Him to dine with him; and He went in and. sat down to meat.
Verse 37. _TO DINE_] οπως αριστηση. The word αριστειν dignifies the _first_ eating of the day. The Jews made but _two_ meals in the day; their αριστον may be called their _breakfast_ or their _dinner...
AND AS HE SPAKE - While he was addressing the people, and particularly while he was reproving that generation and declaring its crimes. A CERTAIN PHARISEE - The Pharisees had been particularly referre...
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Prayer Given to the Disciples (Luke 11:1 .)_ 2. The Friend at Midnight. (Luke 11:5) 3. Encouragement to Pray. (Luke 11:11) 4. A Demon Cast Out and the Blasphemous Accusation. ...
CONDEMNATION OF PHARISEES AND SCRIBES._ Cf._ (though the arrangement is different) Matthew 23*, where the Jerusalem setting is more suitable (perhaps Lk. wishes to make the Jerusalem discourses end wi...
After Jesus had spoken a Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He came in and reclined at the table. The Pharisee was surprised when he saw that he did not dip his hands in water before he ate. The Lor...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
AS HE SPAKE. literal in (Greek. _en._ App-104.) His speaking. BESOUGHT. asked. App-134. TO DINE. that he would dine, DINE. take breakfast. Greek. _aristao,_ not _deipneo._ The morning meal after ret...
37-54. The Invitation of the Pharisee and the open Rupture. 37. _besought_ Rather, asked. _to dine with him_ The meal was not dinner (_deipnon_), but an earlier, lighter, and more informal meal (_ar...
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...
ἘΡΩΤΑ͂Ι. ‘Asked’ (A. V[244] “_besought_”). [244] A. V. Authorised Version. ὍΠΩΣ�' ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι. The meal was not dinner (δεῖπνον), but an earlier, lighter, and more informal meal (ἄριστον). ΕἸΣΕΛΘῺΝ ΔῈ�....
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...
THE INVITATION OF THE PHARISEE AND THE OPEN RUPTURE...
Ver 37. And as he spoke, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him, and he went in, and sat down to meat. 38. And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed before dinne...
_JESUS REBUKED THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES -- LUKE 11:37-54:_ Jesus condemned the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses. As Jesus ate with a Pharisee he was shocked that Jesus did not keep thei...
ΛΑΛΉΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf., см._ Luke 11:14. _Inf._ с _предл._ ΈΝ (G1722) выражает одновременность действия: "пока Он говорил..." ΈΡΩ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΩΤΆΩ (G2065) спрашивать, задавать вопросы. Hi...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Pharisaism (Luke 11:37-54) 37 While he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in and sat at table. 38The Pharisee was astonished to see, that he...
And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. AND AS HE SPAKE, A CERTAIN PHARISEE BESOUGHT HIM TO DINE WITH HIM: AND HE WENT IN, AND SAT...
27 This is a delicate yet decisive thrust at the slightest tendency toward Mariolatry. Mary was indeed most blessed to be chosen to bear such a Son, but it was a physical relationship, such as He sust...
CHRIST IS ENTERTAINED BY A PHARISEE. HE DENOUNCES PHARISAIC FORMALISM AND HYPOCRISY. For the relation of this discourse to Matthew 23:1, see on Matthew 23:1....
THE LORD'S PRAYER. THE SIGN OF JONAH 1-4. The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9). See on Mt. If the Lord's Prayer was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion. His version, however (as...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT PRAYER 11:1-13 1 THE PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT 11:1-4 V1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of...
A CERTAIN PHARISEE BESOUGHT HIM TO DINE WITH HIM. — On the act, and the feeling which it implied, see Note on Luke 7:36. The word translated “dine” implies a morning or noon-tide meal, as distinct fro...
_In the house of a Pharisee; criticism of the religion of Pharisees and scribes_ (Matthew 23). This section contains a selection of the hard sayings of Jesus on the “righteousness of the scribes and P...
ἐν τῷ λαλῆσαι, while He was speaking, as if it had been ἐ. τ. λαλεῖν. ἐν goes most naturally with the present infinitive, but Lk., who uses ἐν with infinitive much more frequently than any other N.T....
DARK AND FOUL WITHIN Luke 11:33-44 “The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,” Proverbs 20:27. How many unlit candles there are! Will you not ask whether Christ has ever kindled you with His divi...
Watching the Master at prayer, His disciples were inspired with a desire to pray, and requested that they be taught. He responded to them in a fourfold statement. First, He gave them a model. Then He...
(10) And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. (10) The service of God consists not in outward cleanliness and planned rites or ceremoni...
BAPTIZO NOT ALWAYS A TOTAL SUBMERSION, BUT A PURIFICATION Luke 11:37-42. _“But while He was speaking, a Pharisee asked Him that He may dine with him; having come in, lie sat down at the table; and the...
1 _st. To the Pharisees: Luke 11:37-44_. VERS. 37 AND 38. _The Occasion._ This Pharisee had probably been one of the hearers of the previous discourse; perhaps one of the authors of the accusation ra...
(37) And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him. And he went in, and sat down to meat. (38) And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner...
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...
This narrative agrees in some respects, but not entirely, with the doctrine laid down by Matthew, (Matthew 10:1,) that Christ, in order to correct the superstition of the people, and particularly of t...
The prayer which He taught His disciples (chapter 11) has respect also to the position into which they came before the gift of the Holy Ghost. [32] Jesus Himself prayed, as the dependent man on earth....
AND AS HE SPAKE,.... Either the above words, or others at another time: A CERTAIN PHARISEE BESOUGHT HIM TO DINE WITH HIM: as one of the same sect had before, in Luke 7:36 and who either was better af...
And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. Ver. 37. _Sat down to meat_] And yet, at their own tables, he sets the Pharisees forth in thei...
_And as he spake, a Pharisee besought him to dine with him_ Our Lord having proved the truth of his mission, against the malicious cavils of his enemies, in the manner above stated, when he had made a...
VALUABLE INSTRUCTION AS TO PRAYER (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended in Mary). His...
37-54 We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God ha...
This is the second time we meet with our Saviour at a Pharisee's house. He saith of himself, that he _came eating and drinking_, that is, allowing himself a free, though innocent, converse with all so...
Luke 11:37 And G1161 as G1722 spoke G2980 (G5658) certain G5100 Pharisee G5330 asked G2065 (G5707) Him...
‘Now when he had spoken a Pharisee asks him to dine with him, and he went in, and sat down to meat, and when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first drenched (baptizo) himself before d...
THE WOEFUL STATE OF THOSE WHOSE LIGHT IS DARKNESS, AND WHO THEREFORE COME UNDER HIS WOES (11:37-52). But sadly there are those whose eyes turn away from the light. Instead of their eyes being fixed on...
THIS discourse closely resembles the great denunciation of the Pharisees (Matthew 23); but the circumstances of the two are entirely different; the one was uttered just before our Lord departed solemn...
Luke 11:37. HOW AS HE SPAKE. While he had been speaking, _i.e.,_ the foregoing. A reference to some other time is barely possible, certainly not natural. ASKETH HIM. ‘Besought' is too strong; it was...
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...
NOW AS HE SPAKE (εν δε τω λαλησα). Luke's common idiom, εν with the articular infinitive (aorist active infinitive) but it does not mean "after he had spoken" as Plummer argues, but simply "in the...
Luke 11:14. _And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils thr...
CONTENTS: Jesus' doctrine of prayer. Jesus charged with casting out demons by Beelzebub, and His answer. Woes denounced upon the Pharisees and lawyers. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Jonah, Sol...
Luke 11:1. _Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples._ The disciples of John were eminent for fasting and prayer; and though the prayers of the jews were good, yet they were not exact...
A PHARISEE INVITED HIM TO EAT WITH HIM. Jesus did not hesitate to mix with all classes of people. WAS SURPRISED WHEN HE NOTICED. The Jews had a special ritual for washing their hands. Jesus had not fo...
_A certain Pharisee besought Him to dine with him._ THE PHARISEES REPROVED I. THE INVITATION. 1. The prominence with which the Pharisees figure in our Lord’s life is noticeable. (1) In view of the...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:37 RECLINED AT TABLE. The usual posture at a banquet or Sabbath meal (see note on Matt. 26:20). ⇐
CHAPTER 11 VER. 2. _When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name_. S. Matthew adds this prayer to the sermon on the mount, whilst S. Luke places it at a later period. Either...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 11:37. BESOUGHT.—Simply, “asked” (R.V.). TO DINE.—Rather, “that He would _breakfast_ with him.” The word used means a noon-day meal = our late breakfast or luncheon. Luke 11:38....
EXPOSITION LUKE 11:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the_ _subject of prayer. _Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of _time _or _place _enables us to fix the scene or date with any...
Tonight, chapter 11 in the gospel according to Luke. Again, as Luke is pointing out the human side of Jesus, though He was God, He became man. He is the God-man. He is divine, and yet, He is human. Th...
1 Corinthians 9:19; Luke 14:1; Luke 7:36...
Besought [ε ρ ω τ α]. Too strong. Better, as Rev., asketh. The present tense. Dine [α ρ ι σ τ η σ η]. See on dinner, Matthew 22:4. The morning meal, immediately after the return from morning prayers...
Observe here, 1. The free conversation of our blessed Saviour, how readily he complies with the Pharisees' invitation to dine with him.. do not find that, when Christ was invited to any table, that ev...