Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Luke 13:16
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath-day?
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath-day?
A DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM - A descendant of Abraham. See the notes at Matthew 1:1. She was therefore a Jewess; and the ruler of the synagogue, professing a special regard for the Jewish people, considerin...
CHAPTER 13 __ 1. The Necessity of Repentance. (Luke 13:1 .) 2. The Barren Fig Tree. (Luke 13:6) 3. The Healing of a Daughter of Abraham. (Luke 13:10) 4. Parable of the Mustard Seed. ...
A WOMAN HEALED ON THE SABBATH. (Lk. only; _cf. Luke 6:1_). Loisy is too fanciful in connecting this section with what precedes by suggesting that as the barren tree stands for unrepentant Israel so th...
SUFFERING AND SIN (Luke 13:1-5)...
Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath; and--look you--there was a woman there who had a spirit of weakness for eighteen years. She was bent together and could not straighten up pr...
OUGHT. The same word as the ruler's, but as an Interrogative. The former was based on ceremonial law; the Lord's, on the necessity of Divine love. DAUGHTER. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of S...
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...
_ought not_ Our Saviour gives him back his own word _"ought_but the man's _ought_had been one of ceremonial obligation, and the _ought_of Jesus was founded on the divine necessity of love. _being a d...
ΘΥΓΑΤΈΡΑ ἈΒΡΑᾺΜ ΟΥ̓͂ΣΑΝ. See Luke 19:9. ἫΝ ἜΔΗΣΕΝ Ὁ ΣΑΤΑΝΑ͂Σ. Compare 2 Corinthians 12:7. ΔΈΚΑ ΚΑῚ ὈΚΤῺ ἜΤΗ. The _accus._ of duration. ΟΥ̓Κ ἜΔΕΙ. Our Saviour gives him back his own word “_ought_;”—b...
THE SABBATICAL HYPOCRITE AND THE SUFFERING WOMAN...
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 10. And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lif...
_A WOMAN WAS FREED FROM AN INFIRMITY -- LUKE 13:10-17:_ Jesus went into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day. He saw a woman who "had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and coul...
ΘΥΓΆΤΗΡ (G2364) дочь, ΘΥΓΑΤΈΡΑ 'ΑΒΡΑΆΜ (асс. _sing._) "дочь Авраама". Указывает, что она верила в то же, что и Авраам, и принадлежала к народу Божьему (_см._ 4 Мак. 11:28-29; мать семи мучеников назы...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Repentance in Doctrine (Luke 13:10-17) 10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11And there was a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity for eight...
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? AND OUGHT NOT THIS WOMAN, BEING A DAUGHTER OF AB...
57-59 Compare Mat_5:25-26; Pro_25:8. 1 There is a strong natural tendency to connect calamity with sin. Hardly any great disaster occurs but someone seeks to justify it on the ground that the victims...
THE GALILEANS KILLED BY PILATE. THE UNFRUITFUL FIG TREE. LAMENT OVER JERUSALEM 1-9. Three exhortations to repentance, of which the former two are based on recent events, and the third is a parable. A...
THE WOMAN WITH A SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY (peculiar to Lk). The story is told not so much for the sake of the miracle, as for the light it throws upon the question of sabbath observance. It is the only cas...
SATAN HATH BOUND] The Jews attributed such ills to Satan. It is not implied that the woman was of evil life....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 13 PEOPLE NEED TO TURN TO GOD 13:1-9 Two incidents and a *parable all teach that people need to turn to God. They must do this so that they avoid pun...
WHOM SATAN HATH BOUND. — The words imply the belief that there was another source than mere bodily disease for the infirmity — in part, at least, the belief that all disease — or very many forms of it...
DOTH NOT EACH ONE OF YOU ...? — The principle is the same as that in Matthew 12:11 (where see Note), but the case is put in even a stronger form. There the illustration is drawn from what might seem a...
The case of the woman described so as to suggest a parallel and contrast: a daughter of Abraham _versus_ an ox or ass; bound by _Satan_, not merely by a chain round the neck; for eighteen years, not f...
_Cure in a synagogue on a Sabbath day_, peculiar to Lk....
GOOD WORK FOR THE SABBATH Luke 13:10-17 There was in this woman a noble principle which led her to persevere in attending God's house, although there was much to discourage her. Probably she was anim...
Someone brought to our Lord an account of a happening which seemed to suggest that those who suffered catastrophe are proved to be "sinners above all." He directly contradicted that view, and in that...
THE RHEUMATISM OF EIGHTEEN YEARS HEALED Luke 13:10-17. “ _And He was teaching in one of their synagogues on the Sabbath. Behold_, _a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years_, _and was bent o...
11. _The Progress of the Kingdom: Luke 13:10-21_. During this journey, as throughout His whole ministry, Jesus did not fail to frequent the synagogues on the Sabbath days. The present narrative introd...
And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself...
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...
Now, at this moment they reminded Him of a terrible judgment that had fallen upon some among them. He declares to them that neither this case, nor another which He recalls to their minds, is exception...
AND OUGHT NOT THIS WOMAN, BEING A DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM,.... Not only a woman, or rational creature, and much preferable, as such, to an irrational one; but a descendant of Abraham, of whom the Jews glo...
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? Ver. 16. _Whom Satan hath bound_] So he held Job i...
_And the ruler of the synagogue_ Instead of joining in acknowledgments of the divine power and goodness, displayed in this gracious action of our Lord; _answered_ The woman's praises, _with indignatio...
A DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM; a descendant of Abraham and possessing his faith. WHOM SATAN HATH BOUND-LOOSED; the allusion is to the loosing of an animal from the stall, verse Luke 13:15. Satan has bound dow...
REPENT OR PERISH (vs.1-9) This chapter shows that righteousness by itself provides no hope for man, but presses upon us the solemn lesson of repentance. Thus it prepares the way for Chapter s 14 and...
10-17 Our Lord Jesus attended upon public worship on the sabbaths. Even bodily infirmities, unless very grievous, should not keep us from public worship on sabbath days. This woman came to Christ to...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 13:15...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II And not only in the case of this woman have the years of her infirmity (which they affirm to fit in with their figment) been mentioned, but, lo! another woman was al...
Luke 13:16 So G1161 ought G1163 (G5713) not G3756 woman G5026 being G5607 (G5752) daughter G2364 Abraham...
“And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound, lo, these eighteen years, to have been loosed from this bond on the day of the sabbath?” So if they were willing to loose...
THE WOMAN WHO WAS MADE STRAIGHT AND DELIVERED FROM SATAN (13:10-17). This story is central to this section of Luke, as is demonstrated by the chiasmus. We may ignore such literary methods, but we can...
TIME. It is generally agreed that this incident belongs to the later period of our Lord's ministry, about the time of His visit to Perea (Matthew 19:1-2; Mark 10:1). The reasons for this are (1.) that...
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...
Luke 13:16. AND OUGHT NOT. They were ‘hypocrites,' because they perceived the necessity in the case of the beast, but heartlessly denied it in the case of the poor woman. The contrast is marked. In th...
DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM (θυγατερα Αβρααμ). Triple argument, human being and not an ox or ass, woman, daughter of Abraham (Jewess), besides being old and ill.OUGHT NOT (ουκ εδε). Imperfect active. Of...
Luke 13:10 The Impotent Woman. I. This impotent woman may fairly be taken as a type of character to which we, or many of us, answer; and answer much more closely than, for example, to that of the pro...
Luke 13:11. _And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him,...
Luke 13:6. _He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none._ It was a fig tree, a fruit-bearing tree by profess...
Luke 13:10. And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lif...
Luke 13:10. _And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath, And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise li...
CONTENTS: Parable of barren fig tree. Woman loosed from her infirmity. Parable of mustard seed and leaven. Jesus teaching on way to Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Galileans, Pilate, infirm woman, rule...
Luke 13:1. _There were some present at that season_ of the passover, _that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their_ _sacrifices._ Though this might be blood for blood, yet...
A WOMAN WAS THERE. Only Luke tells this healing of the Crippled Woman. A similar healing on the Sabbath is given in Matthew 12:10-13; Mark 3:1-5. THAT HAD KEPT HER SICK FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS. A demon was...
_A woman, which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen yearn--_ TWO PULPITS I. Observe one thing at the outset: HOW MANY ANONYMOUS BELIEVERS THERE ARE IN THE BIBLE RECORD WHO GIVE HELP ALL ALONG THE AGES...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 13:15 YOU HYPOCRITES. Compare Luke 6:42; Luke 12:56....
CHAPTER 13 VER. 1. _Whose blood Pilate mingled._ That is, whom while they were sacrificing in Mount Gerizim in Samaria, Pilate slew. He slew them that their blood might be mingled with the blood of th...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 13:10. IN ONE OF THE SYNAGOGUES.—Time and place are indefinite; probably in Peræa. Luke 13:11 A SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY.—(Cf. Acts 16:6, “a spirit of Python”). _I.e._, an evil spiri...
EXPOSITION LUKE 13:1 _Signs of the times. The Lord continues his solemn warnings. Israel pictured in the parable of the barren fig tree._ LUKE 13:1 There were present at that season some that told...
Now there were present at that season (Luke 13:1) And, of course, now Luke may have gone on in a period of time. We don't know how much time elapsed between verse Luke 13:59 of chapter 12, and Luke 13...
2 Timothy 2:26; Acts 13:26; John 8:44; Luke 16:24; Luke 19:9;...
Satan. " True to its principle of contrast, this book gives Satan a prominent position (Abbot). See ch. Luke 4:13; Luke 10:18; Luke 22:3; Luke 22:31. See Introduction....
And ought not this woman? — Ought not any human creature, which is so far better than an ox or an ass? Much more, this daughter of Abraham — probably in a spiritual as well as natural sense, to be loo...