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Luke 16:14
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things; and they derided Him.
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things; and they derided Him.
Verse Luke 16:14. _THEY DERIDED HIM_] Or rather, _They treated him with the_ _utmost contempt_. So we may translate the original words εξεμυκτηριζον αυτον, which literally signifies, _in illum_ _emun...
THEY DERIDED HIM - The fact that they were “covetous” is here stated as the reason why they derided him, or, as it is literally, “they turned up the nose at him.” They contemned or despised the doctri...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The Unjust Steward. (Luke 16:1)_ 2. The Impossible Service. (Luke 16:13) 3. The Deriding Pharisees Answered. (Luke 16:14) 4. Concerning Divorce. ...
WORDS TO PHARISEES. Luke 16:14 f. Lk. only. The verses seem introduced by Lk. to indicate that the preceding and succeeding parables were directed against Pharisees. They also illustrate his antipathy...
When the Pharisees, who were characteristically fond of money, heard these things, they derided Jesus. So he said to them, "You are those who make yourselves look righteous before men, but God knows y...
A BAD MAN'S GOOD EXAMPLE (Luke 16:1-13)...
THE PHARISEES. See App-120. WERE. being then. Greek. _huparcho,_ as in Luke 16:23, and see on Luke 7:25. COVETOUS. money-lovers (referring to _mammon, verses:_ 11, 13); Occurs only here, and 2 Timoth...
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...
14-31. DIVES AND LAZARUS, A PARABLE TO THE COVETOUS, PRECEDED BY REBUKES TO THE PHARISEES. 14. _who were covetous_ Rather, lovers OF money, 2 Timothy 3:2. The charge is amply borne out by the referen...
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...
ΦΙΛΆΡΓΥΡΟΙ. ‘Lovers of money,’ 2 Timothy 3:2. The charge is amply borne out by the references in the Talmud to the rapacity shewn by the Rabbis and Priests of the period. See Matthew 23:13. ἘΞΕΜΥΚΤΉΡΙ...
DIVES AND LAZARUS: A PARABLE TO THE COVETOUS, PRECEDED BY REBUKES TO THE PHARISEES...
Ver 14. And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15. And he said to them, you are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: f...
_THE PHARISEES RIDICULED JESUS -- LUKE 16:14-18:_ The Pharisees who had been listening to Jesus professed to trust God. Sadly, these Pharisees really loved money. When they heard the things that Jesus...
ΉΚΟΥΟΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΑΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать, слушать. _Impf._ изображает длительное действие: "они слушали" ΦΙΛΆΡΓΎΡΟΣ (G5366) любящий деньги (TLNT). О жадности фарисеев _см._ SB, 1:222; 4:1, 33...
AND THEY DERIDED HIM.— The original word is very emphatical; εξεμυκτηριζον : "They mocked him by a scornful motion of the mouth and nose,"—as well as by what they spake to him. The word might be rende...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Parable of the Unrighteous Steward Scripture_ Luke 16:1-18 And he said unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Be Sanctified (Luke 16:14-18) 14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they scoffed at him. 15But he said to them, You are those who justify yours...
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. AND THE PHARISEES ALSO, WHO WERE COVETOUS, HEARD ALL THESE THINGS: AND THEY DERIDED HIM. [ exeemukteerizon...
16:14 mocked (e-13) The word translated 'mocked' only occurs here and at ch. 23.35, where it is rendered 'sneered.'...
THE PHARISEES MOCK JESUS. HIS REPLY. The connexion of Luke 16:16; Luke 16:18 is difficult, and it may be that they do not properly belong here, but it is also possible that our Lord's discourse is abr...
COVETOUS] RV 'lovers of money'; see on Mark 12:40. 15, 16. See on Matthew 11:12; Matthew 11:13. The connexion (if such is to be sought) is this: Before Christ began to preach, it was comparatively eas...
THE UNJUST STEWARD. THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS 1-13. Parable of the Unjust Steward (peculiar to Lk). The details of this somewhat difficult parable are probably not significant. It is intended to illust...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 16 THE *PARABLE OF THE UNJUST MANAGER 16:1-8 V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘A rich man had a servant who managed his property. The rich man heard...
AND THE PHARISEES ALSO, WHO WERE COVETOUS. — The words are important as showing that they had been listening during the previous parable, and that the words, though addressed to the disciples, had bee...
Luke 16:14-18 form a “somewhat heavily built bridge” (H. C.) between the two parables, which set forth the right and the wrong use of riches....
φιλάργυροι · an interesting and very credible bit of information concerning the Pharisees (2 Timothy 3:2). ἐξεμυκτήριζον (ἐκ and μύκτηρ, the nose), turned up the nose at, in contempt, again in Luke 23...
A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE Luke 16:14-31 Here was a flagrant case of heartless indifference, amid luxuries of every kind, to the daily spectacle of abject need. Most of us have at least one Lazarus at t...
The Master had a lesson to teach His disciples on the subject of earthly wealth, and He made use of this unjust steward for purposes of illustration only. The element in the action of the steward whic...
Now the Pharisees, &c. Christ had admonished the Scribes and Pharisees not to presume too much on their own sanctity, but to receive repenting sinners, and to redeem their own sins with alms. But they...
PRIDE Luke 16:14-15. _“And the Pharisees, being money lovers, were hearing all these things, and murmuring against Him.”_ If you preach holiness like lightning, as Jesus did, money-loving Church membe...
VERS. 14 AND 15. “ _The Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things; and they derided Him._ 15. _And He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth y...
This piece contains: 1 _st._ The parable of the unjust steward, with accompanying reflections (Luke 16:1-13); 2 _d._ Reflections forming an introduction to the parable of the wicked rich man, and the...
2 _d. Luke 16:14-31_. _The Wicked Rich Man._ The introduction (Luke 16:14-18) is composed of a series of sayings which at first sight appear to have no connection with one another. Holtzmann thinks th...
(14) And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him. (15) And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts;...
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...
_GODS WAYS AND MEN’S WAYS_ ‘And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided Him. And He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God kn...
14._And the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things. They _who imagine that Christ was _ridiculed by the Pharisees, _because he chose to employ a plain and familiar style, and made no use...
In chapter 16, the effect of grace on conduct is presented, and the contrast that exists (the dispensation being changed) between the conduct that Christianity requires with regard to the things of th...
AND THE PHARISEES ALSO WHO WERE COVETOUS,.... Or lovers of money, the love of which is the root of all evil; and that they were, is evident from their devouring widows' houses, under a pretence of mak...
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. Ver. 14. _And they derided him_] Gr. εξεμυκτηριζον, they blew their noses at him in scorn and derision. They f...
_The Pharisees, who were covetous_ Of a very worldly spirit; _heard all these things_ Namely, concerning the true use of riches, and the impossibility of men's serving God and mammon at the same time;...
DERIDED HIM; because of the doctrine contained in the preceding discourse, in which he taught that all our wealth belongs to God, and that to obtain heaven, we must faithfully use it in his service, a...
A PARABLE AS TO THE USE OF THE MASTER'S GOODS (vs.1-13) Now the Lord turned to address His disciples. For though it is pure grace that saves and finds deep delight in the repentance of a sinner, yet...
13-18 To this parable our Lord added a solemn warning. Ye cannot serve God and the world, so divided are the two interests. When our Lord spoke thus, the covetous Pharisees treated his instructions w...
Concerning the Pharisees covetousness we have often heard before; and indeed they were so from this principle, that none but the rich were happy and blessed, and that all poor people were cursed, 1 TH...
Cyprian Treatise VIII On Works and Alms For when in the Gospel the Lord was discoursing concerning almsgiving, and faithfully and wholesomely warned us to make to ourselves friends of our earthly luc...
‘And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.' The Pharisees scoffed at His ideas (literally ‘turned up their noses at Him'). When Luke says that it wa...
JESUS REPLIES TO THE MOCKERY OF THE PHARISEES DIRECTED AT HIS IDEAS ABOUT WEALTH (16:14-18). The Pharisees had been listening in to his advice to His disciples and they derided Him. For in their eyes...
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 16:14. AND THE PHARISEES ALSO. The preceding parable was addressed to the disciples (Luke 16:1), but the Pharisees HEARD ALL THESE THINGS. A continued act is meant, here and in what follows : AND...
The response of the Pharisees (Luke 16:14) called forth another parable, in which another phase, of the same great truth is brought out, namely, that _neglect_ of the proper application of wealth beco...
WHO WERE LOVERS OF MONEY (φιλαργυρο υπαρχοντες). Literally, being lovers of money. Φιλαργυρο is an old word, but in the N.T. only here and 2 Timothy 3:2. It is from φιλος and αργυρος.HEARD (ηκουον...
Luke 16:14 Consider the conduct of the Pharisees, whose weak point had been touched by our Lord's teaching; they adopted the fool's course of mocking at that which they could not deny to be true, but...
CONTENTS: Parable of the unjust steward. Jesus answers Pharisees. Rich man and Lazarus in the spirit world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, John the Baptist, rich man, Lazarus, Abraham, five broth...
Luke 16:1. _A certain rich man had a steward accused that he had wasted his goods._ After the parable of the prodigal son, we have a second, of a prodigal steward, who had wasted his lord's property....
AND THEY MADE FUN OF JESUS. They understood Jesus to be attacking _greed,_ and they thought this _foolish,_ because they measured everything in terms of money....
_The Pharisees also, who were covetous_ LOVERS OF MONEY Those “lovers of money” heard what things? As rulers of the people they heard the parable of the “unjust steward,” and their own doom as men...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 16:14 For the Pharisees as LOVERS OF MONEY, see Luke 11:39; Luke 20:46....
CHAPTER 16 VER. 1. _And He said also unto His disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods._ Having rebuked in three par...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 16:14. In this section, the connection of which with the preceding and following parables is not at first sight apparent, we have evidently the heads of a discourse addressed to...
EXPOSITION LUKE 16:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the right use of earthly possessions with regard to the prospect of another world, in the form of the two parables of the unjust steward, and Dives and...
Jesus speaks on two unpleasant subjects, to a lot of people. Not unpleasant to me, but to a lot of people. Talks about hell. That's not unpleasant to me, not worried about it at all. Now Jesus is at a...
Ezekiel 22:25; Ezekiel 33:31; Hebrews 11:36; Hebrews 12:2; Hebre
Covetous [φ ι λ α ρ γ υ ρ ο ι]. Rev. renders literally, according to the composition of the word, lovers of money. Only here and 2 Timothy 3:2. Compare the kindred noun, 1 Timothy 6:10. The usual word...
The Pharisees were notoriously addicted to the sin of covetousness, accounting no man happy but them that were rich: and because the promises made to the Jews were generally, (though not only) of temp...