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Luke 19:11
And as they heard these things, He added and spake a parable, because He was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
And as they heard these things, He added and spake a parable, because He was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
Verse Luke 19:11. _AND AS THEY HEARD THESE THINGS_] I believe the _participle_ of the _present_ tense, here, is used for the participle of the _past_, or rather that the participle of the present con...
HE SPAKE A PARABLE - This parable has in some respects a resemblance to the parable of the “talents” in Matthew 25:14, but it is not the same. They differ in the following respects: That was spoken “a...
CHAPTER 19 CHAPTER 19:1-27 _ 1. The Salvation of Zacchaeus. (Luke 19:1)_ 2. The Parable of the Ten Pounds. (Luke 19:11 .) Luke 19:1 When He drew near to Jericho the Lord healed the blind beggar. T...
PARABLE OF THE TALENTS (Matthew 25:14 *). There are some differences in the two versions. In Lk. the man of Mt. becomes a prince who (like the sons of Herod the Great) journeys (to Rome) to have his t...
THE GUEST OF THE MAN WHOM ALL MEN DESPISED (Luke 19:1-10)...
As they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell them a parable because he was near Jerusalem, and they were thinking that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately. So he said,...
ADDED AND SPAKE. went on to speak. BECAUSE. on account of (Greek. _dia._ App-104.Luke 19:2; Luke 19:2) [the fact] that. Not the same word as in Luke 19:44. THAT. Greek. hoti, same as "because" in ver...
11-27. The Parable of the Pounds. 11. _because he was nigh to Jerusalem_ Probably therefore the parable was spoken on the journey. _should immediately appear_ Literally, _"be manifested to view."_The...
THE PARABLE OF THE POUNDS...
ΠΡΟΣΘΕῚΣ ΕἾΠΕΝ ΠΑΡΑΒΟΛΉΝ. A Hebraism. Genesis 38:5. ΔΙᾺ ΤῸ ἘΓΓῪΣ ΕἾΝΑΙ. Probably therefore the parable was spoken on the journey. Jericho was 150 stades from Jerusalem. Jos. _B. J._ IV. 8, § 3. ἈΝΑΦΑ...
Ver 11. And as they heard these things, he added and spoke a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. 12. He said therefor...
ΆΚΟΥΌΝΤΩΝ _praes. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать, слушать. _Gen. abs._ ΠΡΟΣΘΕΊΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΠΡΟΣΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G4369) добавлять. Здесь используется в еврейском значении, как наречие: с...
HE—SPAKE A PARABLE, &C.— Because his followers were accompanying him to the royal city, in expectation that the _kingdom of God would immediately appear,_ and with a resolution to assist him in erecti...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Persistence (Luke 19:11-27) 11 As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of...
And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. AND AS THEY HEARD - or we...
1 Compare Jos_6:26; 1Ki_16:34. 2 The case of Zaccheus meant much more to a patriotic Jew than we can possibly imagine. The most hated and unpopular class in the whole nation were the tax farmers, who...
PARABLE OF THE POUNDS (peculiar to Lk, but similar to the Parable of the Talents, Matthew 25:14, q.v.). It differs from that parable, (1) in the introduction of the rebellious citizens, Luke 19:14; Lu...
ZACCELEUS. THE POUNDS. CHRIST'S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM. HE CLEANSES THE TEMPLE 1-10. Zacchaeus (peculiar to Lk). The narrative shows that our Lord's familiar intercourse with publicans and si...
BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT] The multitudes thought that Jesus was going to Jerusalem to set up the Messianic kingdom at once. Jesus therefore explained by a parable that the kingdom would not be established...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 19 JESUS AND ZACCHAEUS 19:1-10 V1 Jesus was walking through the city of Jericho. V2 The chief *tax-collector there was Zacchaeus. He was very rich. V...
HE ADDED AND SPAKE A PARABLE. — As in Luke 18:1; Luke 18:9, so here, it is characteristic of St. Luke that he states, more fully than is common in the other Gospels, the occasion and the purpose of th...
CHAPTER 23 THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE GOSPEL. COIFI, in his parable to the thanes and nobles of the North Humber country, likened the present life of man to the flight of a sparrow through one of their...
_Parable of the pounds, or of the nobleman who goes to find a kingdom_ (_cf._ Matthew 25:14-30). Into the vexed question of the connection between this parable and that of the talents in Mt. I cannot...
_The introduction_. ταῦτα naturally suggests the words spoken to Zacchaeus by Jesus about salvation, as what was heard. προσθεὶς εἶπε imitates the Hebrew construction = He added and said, _cf._ Genesi...
DOING BUSINESS FOR GOD Luke 19:11-27 In many respects this parable differs from that of the ten talents. In that, the servants are entrusted with different amounts; in this, the same amount is allott...
Zacchaeus was the last convert but one in the ministry of Jesus. Our Lord's method with him is very revealing. He asked for his hospitality, and after receiving it held an unrecorded conversation with...
(4) And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. (4) We must patiently w...
That the kingdom of God should immediately be manifested. The disciples were full of the expectation of the temporal kingdom of the Messias, though he had divers times told them he was to suffer and d...
THE RETURN OF JESUS WITH HIS GLORIOUS KINGDOM Luke 19:11-27. This wonderful, inspiring, conclusive, unmistakable, glorious parable was delivered to the multitude by our Savior, in front of the house o...
9. _The Parable of the Pounds: Luke 19:11-27_. Luke 19:11. _The Introduction._ We have already observed in the multitudes (Luke 14:25; Luke 18:38
And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. He said therefore, A certain...
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...
Luke 19:11._While they were hearing these things. _It was next to a prodigy that the disciples, after having been so frequently warned as to the approaching death of Christ, flew aside from it to thin...
The history of His last approach to Jerusalem and intercourse with it now commences (Luke 19:35). Here then He presents Himself anew as the Son of David, and for the last time; laying on the conscienc...
AND AS THEY HEARD THESE THINGS,.... What Zacchaeus said to Christ, and what Christ said to Zacchaeus; particularly, that salvation, or the Saviour was then come to his house, and that he was come to s...
And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. Ver. 11. _That the kingdom...
_And as they heard these things_ Namely, that salvation was come to Zaccheus's family; _he added, and spake a parable_ From this we gather, that he spake the parable in Zaccheus's house; _because he w...
THE KINGDON OF GOD SHOULD IMMEDIATELY APPEAR; they thought that when Christ should enter Jerusalem he would proclaim himself king, deliver them from the Romans, and raise them to great earthly renown....
ZACCHAEUS RECEIVING THE LORD JESUS (vs.1-10) There was yet another man to be rescued from Jericho, the city of the curse (Joshua 6:26). The Lord, in faithful grace, passed through that city, an avail...
11-27 This parable is like that of the talents, Luke 19:25. Those that are called to Christ, he furnishes with gifts needful for their business; and from those to whom he gives power, he expects serv...
We noted before, that Jericho was but a hundred and fifty furlongs from Jerusalem, (which were not twenty miles), and probably this discourse was upon the way when he was come nearer to it. But the pr...
Luke 19:11 Now G1161 they G846 heard G191 (G5723) things G5023 spoke G2036 (G5627) another G4369 ...
THE PARABLE OF THE RECEIVING OF THE KINGDOM, THE TESTING OUT OF THE SERVANTS AS TO THEIR SUITABILITY FOR HIGH POSITION, AND THE FATE OF REBELS (19:11-27). . We come now to the end of this sixth sectio...
‘And as they heard these things, he added and spoke a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the Kingly Rule of God was immediately to appear.' The loose connection...
THE PARABLE OF THE TEN POUNDS. Probably spoken in the house of Zaccheus. The parable resembles that of the ‘talents' (Matthew 25:14-30) sufficiently to make the careless reader confound the two, but t...
Luke 19:11. HEARD THESE THINGS, _i.e.,_ the conversation with Zaccheus. The parable was spoken in the house, probably from the open room looking into the court, where a good part of the multitude that...
HE ADDED AND SPAKE (προσθεις ειπεν). Second aorist active participle of προστιθημ with ειπεν. It is a Hebrew idiom seen also in Luke 20:1 he added to send (προσεθετο πεμψα) and in Acts 12:3 "he adde...
Luke 19:1. And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. And he sought to see Jesus who he was;...
Luke 19:1. _And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich._ Many of those tax-gatherers were ric...
CONTENTS: Conversion of Zaccheus. Parable of the pounds. Triumphal entry. Jesus weeps over Jerusalem. Purification of the temple. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Zacchaeus, Abraham, disciples. CONCLUSION: Th...
Luke 19:11. _He spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem,_ to correct the fond error of those who thought he would reign on earth. This parable therefore differs from that of the talents, in...
HE WAS NOW ALMOST AT JERUSALEM. Not over twenty miles from there. Since the crowd expected him to set up an earthly kingdom like David's as soon as he arrived at Jerusalem, he tells this parable....
_A certain nobleman went into a far country_ PARABLE OF THE POUNDS I. CHRIST’S ABSENCE IS A PERIOD OF PROBATION. II. THE NATURE OF THE PROBATION IS TWOFOLD. 1. The obligation to loyalty involved i...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 19:11 This parable concludes Luke’s account of Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem (begun in Luke 9:51). It is different from the parable of the talents in...
CHAPTER 19 VER. 1. _And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho._ S. Luke continues the account of the journey to Jerusalem. I have spoken of this in the preceding chapter, verse 35....
_And as they heard these things._ Christ had made frequent mention of His kingdom, and had promised it to His followers. The Apostles hoped, therefore, that it would be brought to pass now, as He was...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 19:11. HE ADDED.—This parable is thus distinctly connected with the words spoken in the house of Zacchæus. It is, therefore, not to be confused with the parable of the Talents,...
EXPOSITION LUKE 19:1 _Jesus lodges in the house of Zacchaeus, _"_the_ _chief among the publicans_"_ at Jericho. _This episode, which took place at Jericho just before the Lord's entry into Jerusalem...
Now Jesus has entered into Jericho (Luke 19:1). And as He is passing through the city, Behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans (Luke 19:2), The city of Jeric...
2 Thessalonians 2:1; Acts 1:6; Luke 17:20...
Appear [α ν α φ α ι ν ε σ θ α ι]. Only here and Acts 21:3. It means to be brought to light; shown forth. The common phrase show up [α ν α] represents it....
They thought the kingdom of God — A glorious temporal kingdom, would immediately appear....
For the better understanding of this parable, we must, 1. Consider the occasion of it. 2. The design and scope of it. 3. The lessons of instruction which our Saviour intended us by it. As to the fo...