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Luke 11:49
Therefore also said the Wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute;
Therefore also said the Wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute;
Verse 49. _THE WISDOM OF GOD_] These seem to be Luke's words, and to mean that Jesus, _the wisdom of God_, (as he is called, 1 Corinthians 1:24,) added the words which follow here, on that occasion:...
See the notes at Matthew 23:29. Luke 11:49 THE WISDOM OF GOD - By the “wisdom of God,” here, is undoubtedly meant the Saviour himself. What he immediately says is not written in the Old Testament. Je...
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...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
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...
THE WISDOM OF GOD. This is Christ Himself; for in Matthew 23:34 this is exactly what He did say. It is not. quotation from the O.T., or any apocryphal book.. will send, &c. This He did, in and during...
_the wisdom of God_ There is an allusion to 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 (comp, 2 Chronicles 36:14-21), but as the exact passage nowhere occurs in the O. T. some suppose that our Lord quotes (1) from a _lost...
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...
49–51. These verses were arbitrarily omitted by Marcion....
Ἡ ΣΟΦΊΑ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂. Comp. Luke 7:35. There is an allusion to 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 (comp. 2 Chronicles 36:14-21), or perhaps to...
THE INVITATION OF THE PHARISEE AND THE OPEN RUPTURE...
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...
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...
ΆΠΟΣΤΕΛΏ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ (G649) посылать, посылать в качестве авторитетного официального представителя. _Fut._ подобен_евр._ пророческому perf., который описывает будущее с такой же увер...
THEREFORE ALSO SAID THE WISDOM OF GOD,— If, as some suppose, Christ himself here spoke of that divine perfection which we call the _wisdom of God,_ it is difficult to make any tolerable sense of this...
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...
46 Compare Mat_23:4. 47 Compare Mat_23:29-36. 51 Compare Gen_4:8; 2Ch_24:20-21. 51 Men are to be judged by what they know as well as by what they do. To do that which you condemn in others convicts...
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....
THEREFORE ALSO SAID THE WISDOM OF GOD] In Matthew 23:34 the words are an utterance of Christ Himself. Christ's knowledge of the divine counsels is so complete that His utterances are also utterances o...
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...
(49-51) THEREFORE ALSO SAID THE WISDOM OF GOD. — The words that follow are in the main the same as those of Matthew 23:34, where see Notes. There are, however, some remarkable variations, each of whic...
_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...
_Castigation of the scribes present_; severe, but justified by having been invited....
ἡ σοφία τ. Θ.: _vide_ notes on Matthew 23:34. ἀποστόλους, apostles, instead of wise men and scribes in Mt. ἐκδιώξουσιν, they shall drive out (of the land), in place of Mt.'s σταυρώσετε....
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...
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and [some] of them they shall slay and (l) persecute: (l) They will so vex them and trouble them, that at length they wi...
_The wisdom of God said. In St. Matthew it is, Behold I send to you prophets and wise men; and in this passage of St. Luke, the wisdom of God saith, I will send, &c.: thus is Christ truly the wisdom o...
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...
_Persecuting Orthodoxy._ “ _Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them._ 48. _Truly ye are witnesses that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they inde...
(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....
THEREFORE ALSO SAID THE WISDOM OF GOD,..... The Syriac version only reads "wisdom"; by which seems to be meant not the perfection of God's wisdom: though it is usual with the Jews to represent the div...
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and _some_ of them they shall slay and persecute: Ver. 49. _Therefore also said the wisdom of God_] That is, Christ hims...
Sin and doom of the Pharisees. Matthew 23:4; Matthew 23:29-36....
THE WISDOM OF GOD; as manifested in the words and works of Christ....
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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“Therefore also said the wisdom of God, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute', that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundati...
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 11:49. THEREFORE ALSO SAID THE WISDOM OF GOD. Comp. Matthew 23:34, where ‘I' is used; so that Christ represents Himself as ‘the wisdom of God.' This seems to be a quotation, but there is no passa...
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...
THE WISDOM OF GOD (η σοφια του θεου). In Matthew 23:34 Jesus uses "I send" (εγω αποστελλω) without this phrase "the wisdom of God." There is no book to which it can refer. Jesus is the wisdom of God...
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 11:47 The unusual expression WISDOM OF GOD probably means “God in his wisdom” or “God, speaking to express his wisdom.” FROM THE BLOOD OF ABEL ...
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 1:30; 2 Corinthians 11:24; 2 Corinthians 11:25; Acts 1:8;...
The wisdom of God, agreeably to this, hath said — In many places of Scripture, though not in these very words, I will send them prophets — Chiefly under the Old Testament: and apostles — Under the New...