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Luke 17:20
And when He was demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, He answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation;
And when He was demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, He answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation;
Verse Luke 17:20. _COMETH NOT WITH OBSERVATION_] _With scrupulous_ _observation_. That this is the proper meaning of the original, μετα παρατηρησεως, KYPKE and others have amply proved from the best...
WAS DEMANDED - Was asked. OF THE PHARISEES - This was a matter of much importance to them, and they had taught that it would come with parade and pomp. It is not unlikely that they asked this merely...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Concerning Offenses and Forgiveness. (Luke 17:1)_ 2. Increase of Faith and Lowly Service. (Luke 17:5) 3. The Ten Lepers. (Luke 17:11) 4. Concerning the Kingdom and His Second Coming...
LUKE 17. The chapter illustrates the difficulty experienced by Lk. in using the material at his disposal. He here brings together without any clear connexion of thought a selection of sayings of Chris...
When Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them, "The kingdom of God does not come with signs that you can watch for; nor will they say, 'Look here!' or 'Loo...
LAWS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Luke 17:1-10)...
WHEN HE WAS DEMANDED. having been asked. OF. by. Greek. _hupo._ App-104. THE PHARISEES. Who were watching Him with hostile intent (Luke 6:7; Luke 14:1; Luke 20:20;...
20-37. The -When?" and -Where?" of the Kingdom of God. 16. _And when he was demanded of the Pharisees_ Literally, "_But being further questioned by the Pharisees_." _should come_ Literally, _"is com...
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...
ἘΠΕΡΩΤΗΘΕῚΣ ΔΈ. ‘_But being further questioned by the Pharisees_.’ ἜΡΧΕΤΑΙ. Literally, ‘_is coming_.’ They seem to have asked with impatient irony, ‘When is all this preparation and preaching to end,...
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 ‘WHEN?’ AND ‘WHERE?’ OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD...
VER 20. AND WHEN HE WAS DEMANDED OF THE PHARISEES WHEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD SHOULD COME, HE ANSWERED THEM AND SAID, THE KINGDOM OF GOD COMES NOT WITH OBSERVATION: 21. NEITHER SHALL THEY SAY, LO HERE! OR...
ΈΠΕΡΩΤΗΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΠΕΡΩΤΆΩ (G1905) задавать вопрос, адресовать вопрос кому-л. ΆΠΕΚΡΊΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.), см._ Luke 17:17. ΠΑΡΑΤΉΡΗΣΙΣ (G3907) замечание, внимательное н...
THE KINGDOM OF GOD COMETH NOT, &C.— While Jesus was in Ephraim, (John 11:54.) the Pharisees asked him, when the _kingdom of God,_ by which they meant the Messiah's kingdom, _was to commence?_ They had...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Guarded (Luke 17:20-37) 20 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming he answered them, The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Coming of the Kingdom Scripture_ Luke 17:20-30 And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God cometh, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not wi...
And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: AND WHEN HE WAS DEMANDED OF THE PHARISEES,...
1 The Lord is through with the unbelievers and now addresses His own disciples. He anticipates the fact that, even among themselves, there would be much to cause them to stumble and fall. He seeks to...
OCCASIONS OF OFFENCE. THE TEN LEPERS. THE SECOND ADVENT 1, 2. On causing others to sin. See on Matthew 18:6; Matthew 18:7. 2, ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES] An affectionate designation of the disciples, e...
COMETH NOT WITH OBSERVATION] i.e. cannot be observed by the senses, is not manifested by outward signs or political changes....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 17 THE DANGER IF YOU CAUSE OTHER PEOPLE TO *SIN 17:1-2 V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘Things will certainly happen that turn people away from God....
WHEN HE WAS DEMANDED OF THE PHARISEES. — The question may have been asked in a different tone, by different classes of those who bore the common name of Pharisee. There were some who were really looki...
_Concerning the coming of the Kingdom and the advent of the Son of Man_. In this section the words of Jesus are distributed between Pharisees and disciples, possibly according to the evangelist's impr...
μετὰ παρατηρήσεως : there is considerable diversity of opinion in the interpretation of this important expression. The prevailing view is that Jesus meant thereby to deny a coming that could be observ...
THE MAN WHO WAS GRATEFUL Luke 17:11-21 Their common misery drew these poor outcasts together and made them forget the fierce national antipathies of Jew and Samaritan. When bidden to go to the priest...
The thinking of the Master for His disciples is always that they should live in love. He knew, however, that offenses must come. In that connection He uttered the solemn word of warning, "Woe unto him...
(7) And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with (b) observation: (7) The kingdom of God is not discer...
When the kingdom of God should come? or when is it to come? when will the Messias come? The Pharisees might say this in a mocking and an insulting manner, to signify that he could not be their true Me...
THE KINGDOM OF GOD UNOBSERVABLE Luke 17:20-21. _“And being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God is coming, He responded to them and said, The kingdom of God comes not wit observation; neithe...
1 _st. Luke 17:20-21_. _The Spirituality of the Kingdom._ “ _And when He was demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, He answered them, and said, The kingdom of God cometh not wi...
THIRD CYCLE: THE LAST SCENES OF THE JOURNEY, LUKE 17:11 TO LUKE 19:27. This third section brings us to Bethany, to the gates of Jerusalem, and to the morning of Palm Day. It seems to me evident that L...
(20) And when he was demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them, and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: (21) Neither shall they say, Lo, here; o...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
_THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM_ ‘And when He was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, He answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall t...
20._And being interrogated by the Pharisees _This question was undoubtedly put in mockery; for, since Christ was continually speaking of the kingdom of God as at hand, while no change was taking place...
Grace is the spring of the Christian's walk, and furnishes directions for it. He cannot with impunity (chapter 17) despise the weak. He must not be weary of pardoning his brother. If he have faith but...
AND WHEN HE WAS DEMANDED OF THE PHARISEES,.... Or "asked" by them; who expected the Messiah, and that when he was come he would set up a temporal kingdom, and deliver them from the Roman yoke; when th...
And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Ver. 20. _When the kingdom of God, &c._] Thi...
Luke 17:20. "And when he was demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, he answered and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation." This clears up any difficulties that...
_When he was demanded of the Pharisees_ It is uncertain whether what is here mentioned took place while our Lord was on his journey, or after he came to Jerusalem; _when the kingdom of God should come...
KINGDOM OF GOD; the reign of the Messiah. Matthew 3:2. NOT WITH OBSERVATION; not with outward pomp and display, so that you can mark its progress, as you would that of an army, and say of it, "Lo her...
GRACE IN VIEW OF OFFENSES (vs.1-4) We have seen the grace of God clearly and beautifully declared, yet the world rejecting it. The Lord Jesus then spoke to His disciples. What should be their attitud...
WITH OBSERVATION: Or, with outward shew...
20-37 The kingdom of God was among the Jews, or rather within some of them. It was a spiritual kingdom, set up in the heart by the power of Divine grace. Observe how it had been with sinners formerly...
OLBGrk; Whether the Pharisees spake this deriding him, who in his discourses had been often mentioning a kingdom of God to come, or in simple seriousness, for they generally expected the coming of a M...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV "The kingdom of God," He says, "cometh not with observation; neither do they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."[1419] Orige...
Luke 17:20 Now G1161 asked G1905 (G5685) by G5259 Pharisees G5330 when G4219 kingdom G932 God G2316
‘And being asked by the Pharisees, when the Kingly Rule of God is coming, he answered them and said, “The Kingly Rule of God is not coming with observation, nor will they say, Lo, here! or, There! for...
CHRONOLOGY. We connect this discourse with that ending in Luke 17:10, placing the whole in Perea, just before the final departure for Jericho and Jerusalem. Chap, Luke 18:15-34, contains incidents to...
Luke 17:20. ASKED BY THE PHARISEES. To entangle Him, for they were seeking occasion to kill Him. Even in Perea, their enmity had been lately increased (see the last discourse, chaps. 15, 16). Possibly...
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...
WITH OBSERVATION (μετα παρατησεως). Late Greek word from παρατηρεω, to watch closely. Only here in the N.T. Medical writers use it of watching the symptoms of disease. It is used also of close astr...
OBSERVATION Or, outward show....
Luke 17:20 God's Kingdom Invisible. The true character of God's kingdom is ghostly and inward. It has its seat in the hearts of men, in their moral habits, in their thoughts, actings, and affections,...
Luke 17:20 Secrecy and Suddenness of Divine Visitations. I. It is impossible that the visitations of God should be other than secret and sudden, considering how the world goes on in every age. Men wh...
Luke 17:11. _And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers whi...
CONTENTS: Instruction in forgiveness. Parable of service. Ten lepers healed. Second coming of Jesus foretold. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, ten lepers, Pharisees, Noah, Lot, Lot's wife. CONCLUSION:...
Luke 17:1. _It is impossible but that offences will come._ Such as the disciples had just seen, the contempt and derision evinced by the pharisees; but woe to the man, and woe to the nation which shal...
WHEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD WOULD COME. These Pharisees, and the Jewish people, expected a political kingdom with the power and glory of David's kingdom restored to Israel. Compare note on Acts 1:6. IN SU...
_The kingdom of God is within you_ THE KINGDOM OF GOD It is a kingdom of the mind, the will, the feeling, and the conduct. “My kingdom is not of this world,” formed in a material fashion, resting on...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 17:20 The PHARISEES apparently want to know what cosmic signs will precede the coming of the KINGDOM so that they can be sure not to miss it. Jesus replies that the kingdom will not...
CHAPTER 17 VER. 5. _And the Apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith._ The Apostles said this, when, from their little faith, they had been unable to cast out the devil from the lunatic. They the...
_And when He was demanded of the Pharisees._ The Kingdom of Israel, which had now indeed fallen, but which was to be raised up again by the Messiah. _The kingdom of God cometh not with observation._ ...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 17:20. DEMANDED OF THE PHARISEES.—We can scarcely think that they had any good end in view in asking this question; it is probable they expected to get some answer which might be...
EXPOSITION LUKE 17:1 _The_ _Master_'_s teaching on the subject of the injury worked on the souls of others by our sins. The disciples pray for an increase of faith that they may be kept from such sin...
Now He turns again to His disciples. Then said he unto his disciples, It is impossible but that offenses will come (Luke 17:1): You cannot help if you're living in this world, you're going to have of...
Acts 1:6; Acts 1:7; Daniel 2:44; John 18:36; Luke 10:11;...
With observation [μ ε τ α π α ρ α τ η ρ η σ ε ω ς]. Only here in New Testament. The progress of the kingdom cannot be defined by visible marks like that of an earthly kingdom. Its growth in the world...
The kingdom of God cometh not with observation — With such outward pomp as draws the observation of every one....
The generality of the Jews, and particularly the Pharisees, expected that the promised Messiah should be. temporal prince, and deliver them from the Roman yoke, under which they groaned. Accordingly t...