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Luke 6:44
For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble-bush gather they grapes.
For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble-bush gather they grapes.
See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luke 6:21 THAT HUNGER NOW - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more full...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Son of Man the Lord of the Sabbath. (Luke 6:1)_ 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed. (Luke 6:6) 3. The Twelve Apostles Chosen. (Luke 6:12) 4. Blessing and Woe. ...
TREES AND FRUIT. THE TREASURE OF THE HEART (Matthew 7:16 *, Matthew 12:33 *). Better than judging others is to examine oneself; the true test of a true disciple is his life. Right speech and action sh...
THE SERMON ON THE LEVEL PLACE. This is much briefer than Matthew 5-7. The sections in Mt. that illustrate the fulfilment of the Law are omitted; more stress is laid on love and mercy. Other parallels...
Jesus spoke a parable to them: "Surely a blind man cannot lead a blind man? If he tries to do so will not both fall into the ditch? The disciple cannot advance beyond his teacher, but every disciple w...
THE INCREASING OPPOSITION (Luke 6:1-5)...
IS KNOWN. gets to be known. Greek _ginosko._ App-132. by. Greek. _ek._ App-104. HIS. its. OF. from. Greek. _ek._ App-104. BRAMBLE BUSH. Greek. _batos._ Occurs outside Lake and Acts only in Mark 12:...
_do not gather figs_ The simile might have been illustrated by pointing to one of the common Eastern gardens or orchards with its festooning vines and fig-trees just beyond the rough hedges of prickly...
ἝΚΑΣΤΟΝ ΔΈΝΔΡΟΝ. ‘_Each tree_’ (not as in A.V[142] _every tree_, which would be πᾶν δένδρον). [142] A.V. Authorised Version. ΟΥ̓ … ΣΥΛΛΈΓΟΥΣΙΝ ΣΥ͂ΚΑ. The simile might have been illustrated by pointi...
SINCERITY. FOUR COMPARISONS...
VER 43. FOR A GOOD TREE BRINGS NOT FORTH CORRUPT FRUIT; NEITHER DOES A CORRUPT TREE BRING FORTH GOOD FRUIT. 44. FOR EVERY TREE IS KNOWN BY HIS OWN FRUIT. FOR OF THORNS MEN DO NOT GATHER FIGS, NOR OF A...
ΓΙΝΏΣΚΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать, признавать. Гномич. _praes._ ΑΚΑΝΘΏΝ _gen. pl. от_ ΆΚΑΝΘΑ (G173) колючий куст, ΣΥΛΛΈΓΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΛΛΈΓΩ (G4816) собирать. Гн...
DISCOURSE: 1497 THE TREE KNOWN BY ITS FRUITS Luke 6:43. A good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Four Concise Statements Scripture_ Luke 6:39-45 And he spake also a parable unto them, Can the blind guide the blind? shall they not both fall into a pit? 40 The disciple is not...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Magnanimous (Luke 6:27-45) 27 But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 29T...
32-36 Compare Mat_5:44-48. 35 We have here the substance of the new covenant which the Lord will make with Israel when He restores them to their land and to His favor (Jer_31:27-34). After those days,...
6:44 gathered (b-14) Lit. 'they shall give.' in ver. 44, 'they gather not' and 'they vintage not.' An example of Luke's use of the third person active of a verb impersonally with a passive sense. Also...
GREAT SERMON TO THE DISCIPLES AND IN PART TO THE MULTITUDES. It forms here the ordination address of the Twelve. In what sense it is identical with the Sermon on the Mount is explained on Matthew 5:1....
Exhortation to stringent self-examination on the part of religious guides. 41, 42. See on Matthew 7:3. 43-45. See on Matthew 7:16, and Matthew 12:33;...
CHOICE OF THE TWELVE. SERMON IN THE PLAIN 1-5. Plucking the ears of corn (Matthew 12:1; Mark 2:23). See on Mt and Mk....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 HOW TO USE THE *SABBATH 6:1-11 1. THE *DISCIPLES IN THE FIELDS OF CORN 6:1-5 V1 Jesus was walking through some fields of wheat on a *Sabbath. His...
(43-46) FOR A GOOD TREE BRINGETH NOT FORTH... — See Notes on Matthew 7:16. Here again, judging by what we find in St. Matthew, there may have been missing links; but even without them the conjunction...
OF THORNS MEN DO NOT GATHER FIGS. — The form of the illustration differs slightly from that in St. Matthew, where the thorns are connected with grapes, and the figs with thistles. The word for “brambl...
CHAPTER 15 THE KINGDOM OF GOD. IN considering the words of Jesus, if we may not be able to measure their depth or to scale their height, we can with absolute certainty discover their drift, and see i...
_The Sermon_ (Matthew 5-7). That it is the same sermon as Mt. reports in Chapter s 5 7 may be regarded as beyond discussion. How, while the same, they came to be so different, is a question not quite...
_Proverbial lore_....
In Mt. these parabolic sayings are connected with a warning against false prophets (Matthew 7:15-19). Here the connection is not obvious, though the thread is probably to be found in the word ὑποκριτά...
For τριβόλοι in Mt., Lk. puts βάτος = thorn bush, _rubus_, and for συλλέγουσιν applied to both thorns and thistles in Mt., Lk. uses in connection with βάτου τρυγῶσιν, the proper word for grape-gatheri...
THE TEST THAT REVEALS CHARACTER Luke 6:39-49 Yes, it is true! Some day we shall be perfected. The long discipline will be over, and we shall be able to close our lesson books and go home. We shall t...
In a synagogue our Lord healed the man with a withered hand, and the religious watchers were filled with anger because, according to their view, our Lord had desecrated the Sabbath. Surely, there is n...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
5 _th. Love, the principle of all beneficent moral action on the world: Luke 6:37-45_. The disciples of Jesus are not only called to practise what is good themselves; they are charged to make it preva...
THIRD CYCLE: FROM THE ELECTION OF THE TWELVE TO THEIR FIRST MISSION, LUKE 6:12 TO LUKE 8:56. In the following section we shall see the Galilean ministry reach its zenith; it begins with the institutio...
2 _d. Luke 6:20-49_. _The Sermon._ The aim, prevailing thought, and plan of this discourse have been understood in many different ways. The solution of these questions is rendered more difficult by th...
In VERS. 43-45, the idea of _teaching_, which is perceptible in Luke 6:40, takes the place altogether of the idea of _judging_, with which it is closely connected. VERS. 43-45. “ _For a good tree brin...
(20) And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor; for your's is the kingdom of God. (21) Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep n...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
The circumstances related in Luke 6:1-10 have reference to the same truth, and in an important aspect. The sabbath was the sign of the covenant between Israel and God rest after finished works. The Ph...
FOR EVERY TREE IS KNOWN BY ITS OWN FRUIT,.... Good and bad preachers are known by their doctrines, the one being agreeable, the other disagreeable to the word of God; and good and bad men are known by...
For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. Ver. 44. See Matthew 12:33,35 ....
_For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit_, &c. See notes on Matthew 7:16; Matthew 12:33. _For of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh_ The meaning of this whole passage is, as a tree...
BLESSED BE YE POOR; for the meaning of these beatitudes and their opposite woes, ver Luke 6:20-26, see notes on the beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-12. See sermon on mount. Matthew 5:39-48;...
LORD OF THE SABBATH (vs.1-11) "The second Sabbath after the first" is literally translated the "second-first Sabbath" (JND trans.), an unusual expression. The first Sabbath was that following the Pas...
37-49 All these sayings Christ often used; it was easy to apply them. We ought to be very careful when we blame others; for we need allowance ourselves. If we are of a giving and a forgiving spirit,...
SEE POOLE ON "MARK 1:16...
The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity " For virginity of such a kind is impure, and disowned by all good works. For "every tree whatsoever is known from its fruits."[19]...
Luke 6:44 For G1063 every G1538 tree G1186 known G1097 (G5743) by G1537 own G2398 fruit G2590 For...
JESUS PROCLAIMS THE NEW LAW OF THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD (6:20-49). Like Matthew 5-7 this ‘sermon' or ‘address' is carefully put together and patterned, but, in spite of similarities, we would be mistake...
IN THE END WHAT MEN ARE IS REVEALED IN WHAT THEY PRODUCE BY THEIR LIVES (6:43-44). a A For there is no good tree which brings forth corrupt fruit (Luke 6:43 a), b B Nor again a corrupt tree which br...
DISTINGUISHING THE GENUINE FROM THE FAKE (6:39-49)....
ON THE PLAN of the Sermon on the Mount, see the Chapter comments on Matthew 5. The subject both here and in Matthew is the state and duties of a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. Van Oosterzee gives t...
IS KNOWN (γινωσκετα). The fruit of each tree reveals its actual character. It is the final test. This sentence is not in Matthew 7:17-20, but the same idea is in the repeated saying (Matthew 7:16; M...
CONTENTS: Jesus and the Sabbath. Healing of a withered hand. Choosing of the twelve. Sermon on the Mount. Parable of the house built on a rock. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, Pharisees, David, ma...
Luke 6:1. _On the second sabbath after the first._ The Hebrew law is, Leviticus 23:11, on the morrow after the sabbath, the priest shall wave the sheaf east and west, north and south, to denote the un...
A HEALTHY TREE DOES NOT BEAR BAD FRUIT. Whatever a man really is will show up in his actions. See notes on _Matthew 7; Matthew 15-21._...
_For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither a corrupt tree bringeth forth good fruit_ GOOD WORKS THE EVIDENCE OF NEW CREATION We cannot perform any good works, unless we are created u...
A BRAMBLE BUSH A bramble bush. Luke 6:44. I wonder how many of you have been brambling, or are going to bramble, this autumn? If you haven't brambled, you have missed a great deal of fun. Only you m...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 6:43 This teaching can be taken in either of two ways. First, observing good and bad fruit allows one to judge wisely in dealing with others (v. Luke 6:42). Second, it applies to the...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 6:12 Jesus appoints 12 apostles, then gives extended teaching to a large group of disciples, including what is often called the “Sermon on the Plain” (vv. Luke 6:20; compare the “Ser...
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT FRUIT IN PEOPLE'S LIVES MATTHEW 7:15-20; LUKE 6:43-45; MATTHEW 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves....
CHAPTER 6 VER. 1. _And it came to pass on the second Sabbath after the first._ On the second Sabbath. The Arabic version. What was this Sabbath? 1. The eighth day of unleavened bread or the last day...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 6:20.—Though various opinions have been held on the subject, the balance of probabilities seems in favour of the supposition that the discourse commonly known as the Sermon on th...
EXPOSITION LUKE 6:1 _The Lord_'_s teaching on the question of the observance of the sabbath._ LUKE 6:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE SECOND SABBATH AFTER THE FIRST. The expression accompanying this n...
Now it came to pass on the second Sabbath (Luke 6:1) Now He is going to deal with a couple of instances on the Sabbath day. We've been introduced now to the Pharisees; they're beginning to really get...
Galatians 5:19; James 3:12; Jude 1:12; Titus 2:11...
Bramble - bush [β α τ ο υ] Matthew has tribolwn, thistles. The word occurs only once outside of Luke's writings, in Mark 12:26, where it is used as the familiar title of a section of the Pentateuch. L...