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Luke 11:45
Then answered one of the lawyers and said unto Him, Master, thus saying Thou reproachest us also.
Then answered one of the lawyers and said unto Him, Master, thus saying Thou reproachest us also.
Verse 45. _THOU REPROACHEST AS_] He alone who searches the heart could unmask these hypocrites; and he did it so effectually that their own consciences acknowledged the guilt, and _re-echoed_ their ow...
LAWYERS - Men learned in the law; but it is not known in what way the lawyers differed from the “scribes,” or whether they were Pharisees or Sadducees. THUS SAYING, THOU ... - He felt that the remark...
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...
A scribe answered, "Teacher, when you talk like that you are insulting us." Jesus said, "Woe to you scribes too! because you bind burdens upon men that are hard to bear and you yourselves do not lay a...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
LAWYERS. teachers of the law. Greek. _nomikos._ Not the same as in Luke 5:17. MASTER. Teacher. App-98. THUS. these things. REPROACHEST. insultest....
_one of the lawyers_ See on Luke 7:30; Luke 10:25. This Scribe thought that Jesus could not possibly mean to reflect on the honoured class who copied and expounded the Law. _reproachest_ Literally, ...
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...
ΤΙΣ ΤΩ͂Ν ΝΟΜΙΚΩ͂Ν. See on Luke 7:30; Luke 10:25. This Scribe thought that Jesus could not possibly mean to reflect on the honoured class who copied and expounded the Law. ΚΑῚ ἩΜΑ͂Σ ὙΒΡΊΖΕΙΣ. ‘_Thou in...
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 45. Then answered one of the Lawyers, and said to him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also. 46. And he said, Woe to you also, you Lawyers! for you lade men with burdens grievous to be borne,...
_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...
ΆΠΟΚΡΙΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. (dep.) part., см._ Luke 11:7. ΥΒΡΊΖΕΙΣ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΎΒΡΊΖΩ (G5195) оскорблять, плохо обращаться, обижать (MNTW; TDNT)....
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...
THEN ANSWERED ONE OF THE LAWYERS. — See Note on Matthew 22:35 for the term “lawyer.” We note here the sense at once of distinctness and of class fellowship. Though something more than a scribe, he fee...
_Castigation of the scribes present_; severe, but justified by having been invited....
τις τῶν νομικῶν : a professional man, the Pharisees being laymen; the two classes kindred in spirit, hence the lawyer who speaks felt hit....
_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...
SEARCHING WORDS FOR HYPOCRITES Luke 11:45-54 The minute oral and written rules promulgated by the Hebrew religious leaders overlaid and almost buried under their weight the simple Mosaic code. They w...
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...
(14) Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also. (14) Hypocrites are very severe against other men, but think that all things are lawful for the...
Then one of the lawyers, &c. Correction, which turns to the advantage of the meek, appears always more intolerable to the wicked. Christ denounces woes against the Pharisees for deviating from the rig...
WOES PRONOUNCED ON THE PHARISEES & THEOLOGIANS Luke 11:42-54. _“But woe unto you Pharisees, because you tithe mint, anise, and every herb, and you pass by judgment and the love of God; it behooveth yo...
2 _d. To the Scribes: Luke 11:45-54_. A remark made by a scribe gives a new turn to the conversation. The Pharisees were only a religious party; but the scribes, the experts in the law, formed a profe...
Luke 11:45-46. _Literalism._ “ _Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also._ 46. _And He said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men wit...
(42) But, woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgement, and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. (43...
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....
THEN ANSWERED ONE OF THE LAWYERS,.... Or Scribes, as the Syriac and Persic versions read: and so the Ethiopic version calls him, "a Scribe of the city": the Scribes and lawyers were the same sort of p...
Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also. Ver. 45. _Thou reproachest us also_] Who meddled with them, but that their own consciences accused t...
_Then answered one of the lawyers_, &c. A doctor, or interpreter of the law. The Jewish _lawyers_ (as our translation not very properly terms them) were the most considerable species of scribes, who a...
REPROACHEST US; as being inwardly corrupt....
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 lawyer was a scribe of the law, LUKE 11:44. The work of these men was to interpret the law; the Pharisees strictly observed their decrees and interpretations. The lawyer therefore spake rightly i...
Luke 11:45 Then G1161 one G5100 lawyers G3544 answered G611 (G5679) said G3004 (G5719) Him G846 Teacher...
‘And one of the lawyers answering says to him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.” ' The Rabbis who were sitting there were quite happy to listen to His criticism of the Pharisees. They woul...
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 11:45. ONE OF THE LAWYERS (see on chap. Luke 10:25). THOU REPROACHEST US ALSO, who are in official, ecclesiastical position. The man was not a Sadducee, but a Pharisee, and probably felt that th...
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...
THOU REPROACHEST US ALSO (κα ημας υβριζεις). Because the lawyers (scribes) were usually Pharisees. The verb υβριζω is an old one and common for outrageous treatment, a positive insult (so Luke 18:32...
LAWYERS (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 22:35). _...
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...
_Thou reproachest us also_ DISPUTES REVIEWED I. WE MUST ALL EXPECT TO BE CALLED TO AN ACCOUNT BY THE LORD JESUS. 1. We are all now in “the way”--travellers--following Christ in consort. 2. There w...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:45 The second set of woes (vv. Luke 11:46) is directed at LAWYERS (experts in the law, another expression for “scribes of the Pharisees”; see note on...
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...
_Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto Him, Master, thus saying Thou reproachest us also_. _ύβζίζεις_, blamest or dishonourest. Thou accusest us, and that openly, of much wickedness. But Chr...
_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 Kings 22:8; Amos 7:10; Jeremiah 20:8; Jeremiah 6:10; John 7:48;...
Reproachest [υ β ρ ι ζ ε ι ς]. The lawyer converts Jesus ' reproach (see Mark 16:14, upbraided) into an insult; the word meaning to outrage or affront. Us also [κ α ι η μ α ς]. Or perhaps better, eve...
One of the lawyers — That is scribes; expounders of the law....
The former woes were denounced by our Saviour against the Pharisees, who had their names from an Hebrew word, which signifies TO SEPARATE, because they were persons separated and set apart for studyin...