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Luke 11:40
Ye fools, did not He that made that which is without make that which is within also?
Ye fools, did not He that made that which is without make that which is within also?
Verse 40. _DID NOT HE THAT MADE THAT WHICH IS WITHOUT_] Did not the maker of the dish form it so, both outwardly and inwardly, as to answer the purpose for which it was made? And can it answer this p...
YE FOOLS - How unwise and wicked is your conduct! The word denotes not only “want of wisdom,” but also wickedness. Compare Psalms 14:1; Proverbs 13:19; Proverbs 14:9. Your conduct is not merely “fooli
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)...
YE FOOLS. FOOLS. senseless ones. Greek. _aphron._ The first of eleven occurances....
_that which is within also_ See Mark 7:18-19, which contains our Lord's distinctest utterance in abrogation of the Levitic Law "This He said _...making all meats clean._...
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...
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...
ΚΑῚ ΤῸ ἜΣΩΘΕΝ. See Mark 7:18-19, which contains our Lord’s distinctest utterance in abrogation of the Levitic Law—“This He said … _making all meats clean_.” (Revised Version.)...
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...
ΆΦΡΟΝΕΣ _voc. pl. от_ ΆΦΡΩΝ (G878) глупый, невежественный, неразумный, в особенности в практических вопросах (LN, 1:387). ΟΎΧ (G3756), отр. _part._ используется в вопросе, на который ожидается утверд...
YE FOOLS, &C.— "What a silly as well as hypocritical part do you herein act, as if you could impose upon the all-seeing and heart-searching God, who desires truth in the inward parts? Did not he creat...
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 the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, NOW DO YE PH...
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...
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...
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....
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...
YE FOOLS, DID NOT HE THAT MADE THAT WHICH IS WITHOUT..? — The question is peculiar to St. Luke, and implies a latent parabolic application of the previous words. Outward, positive ceremonial law, orde...
ἄφρονες, stupid men! not so strong a word as μωροὶ (Matthew 23:17). οὐχ ὁ ποιήσας, etc.: either a question or an assertion. As an assertion = he that makes the outside (as it should be) does not there...
_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...
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...
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...
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....
YE FOOLS, DID NOT HE THAT MADE THAT WHICH IS WITHOUT,.... That is, made clean that which is without, or the outside of the cup and platter; MAKE THAT WHICH IS WITHIN ALSO? does not he make the inside...
_Ye_ fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? Ver. 40. _Did not he that made, &c._] Ought he not, therefore, to be served with both? It is the hidden man of t...
FOOLS; they who mock God with outward forms merely, while inwardly full of impurity, are not only wicked, but most foolish. MADE THAT WHICH IS WITHOUT-THAT WHICH IS WITHIN; the argument is, that sinc...
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...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II If, then, the Son was not ashamed to ascribe the knowledge of that day to the Father only, but declared what was true regarding the matter, neither let us be ashamed...
Luke 11:40 ones G878 not G3756 made G4160 (G5660) outside G3588 G1855 make G4160 (G5656) inside...
“You foolish ones, did not he who made the outside make the inside also?” Then He gives a gentle rebuke. Such an attitude is foolish for God created all things. To be concerned about the outside and n...
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...
Luke 11:40. YE FOOLS, etc. The folly of such a contradiction is shown. Such a partial cleansing is no cleansing: all such religious acts are supposed to have reference to God, to holiness before Him;...
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...
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...
HOWBEIT (πλην). See Luke 6:24. Instead of devoting so much attention to the outside.THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE WITHIN (τα ενοντα). Articular neuter plural participle from ενειμ, to be in, common verb....
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...
SO THE LORD SAID TO HIM. Jesus may have said this more than once. See notes on a similar lesson in Matthew 23:1-36; Luke 11:41 is only given by Luke. The Jewish leaders hated everybody who was not a p...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:39 INSIDE... FULL OF GREED AND WICKEDNESS. See note on Matt. 23:26. For “greed,” see Luke 16:14....
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 15:36; Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7; Hebrews 12:9; Je