Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible
Luke 13:20
‘And again he said, “To what shall I liken the Kingly Rule of God?”
Jesus then asks the question a second time. Among the Jews something vouched for a second time was seen as certain and secure.
‘And again he said, “To what shall I liken the Kingly Rule of God?”
Jesus then asks the question a second time. Among the Jews something vouched for a second time was seen as certain and secure.
See these parables explained in the notes at Matthew 13:31....
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)...
Again Jesus said, "To what will I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened." This is an illustration which Jesus...
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...
THE MUSTARD SEED AND THE LEAVEN...
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 18. THEN SAID HE, TO WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD LIKE? AND WHEREUNTO SHALL I RESEMBLE IT? 19. IT IS LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED, WHICH A MAN TOOK, AND CAST INTO HIS GARDEN; AND IT GREW, AND WAXED...
_PARABLES OF MUSTARD SEED AND LEAVEN -- LUKE 13:18-21:_ Jesus described the Kingdom of heaven as when a person planted a mustard seed in a garden. The seed grows as big as a tree and birds nest in its...
ΕΊΠΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Luke 13:17. ΌΜΟΙΏΣΩ _fut. ind. act., см._ Luke 13:18....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Repentance in Destiny (Luke 13:18-21) 18 He said therefore, What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? 19It is like a grain of mustard seed which a...
Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? For the exposition of this portion, see the notes at Matthew 13:31, with Remarks....
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 MUSTARD SEED AND THE LEAVEN (Matthew 13:31; Mark 4:30). See on Mt....
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...
(18-21) THEN SAID HE, UNTO WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD LIKE? — See Notes on Matthew 13:31. The first impression with most readers, in the absence of any apparent trace of sequence, is that we have an i...
_The parables of the mustard seed and the leaven_ (Matthew 13:31-33; Mark 4:30-32). Lk. may have introduced these parables here either because the joy of the people was in his view the occasion of the...
The parable of the leaven is given as in Mt. The point of both is that the Kingdom of Heaven, insignificant to begin with, will become great. In the mind of the evangelist both have probably a referen...
THE PENALTY OF NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITY Luke 13:18-30 Notice here the inward movement and the outward effect of the gospel whether in the heart or in the world of men. The garden and the kitchen, the li...
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 MUSTARD-SEED AND THE LEAVEN Luke 13:18-21 “ _Then He said_, _To what is the kingdom of God like_, _and to what shall I liken it_? _It is like the seed of mustard_, _which a man_, _having taken_, _...
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...
Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tr...
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...
_THE GOSPEL IN THE HEART_ ‘Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven.’ Luke 13:20 The parable of the leaven is intended to show the progress of the Gospel in the heart of a beli...
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 AGAIN HE SAID,.... That is, Jesus, as the Syriac and Persic versions express it; besides the parable of the grain of mustard seed, that also of the leaven hid in three measures of meal: WHEREUNTO...
And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? Ver. 20. See Matthew 13:33 ....
_Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like?_ After the Lord had thus silenced the ruler of the synagogue, and while he observed the rejoicings of the people, he reflected with pleasure on the...
Parables of the mustard-seed and leaven. Matthew 18:31-33....
AND AGAIN HE SAID, WHEREUNTO SHALL I LIKEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD?...
PARABLES AND TEACHINGS. The parables of the mustard-seed and the leaven:...
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...
18-22 Here is the progress of the gospel foretold in two parables, as in Luke 13:13. The kingdom of the Messiah is the kingdom of God. May grace grow in our hearts; may our faith and love grow exceed...
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Luke 13:20 And G2532 again G3825 said G2036 (G5627) what G5101 liken G3666 (G5692) kingdom G932 God...
Luke 13:18-21. PARABLES OF THE MUSTARD SEED AND THE LEAVEN. See notes on Matthew 13:31-33. On the repetition of these parables, see note at the beginning of the section. There is an appropriate connec...
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...
WHEREUNTO SHALL I LIKEN? (Τιν ομοιωσω;). This question alone in Luke here as in verse Luke 13:18. But the parable is precisely like that in Matthew 13:33, which see for details....
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 13:18. _Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?_ For men learn much by resemblances, and the things which are seen are frequently helpful to us in...
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 13:10. _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...
WHAT SHALL I COMPARE IT WITH? For notes on the parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast, see Matthew 13:31-33....
_It Is like leaven_ THE HIDDEN LEAVEN The kingdom of heaven, or the work of God in the soul, is like leaven. 1. It at once occurs to us that leaven is something foreign to and different from the mea...
THE PARABLE OF YEAST AND LEAVEN MATTHEW 13:33; LUKE 13:20-21; LUKE 13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? Matthew 1
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 13:19. LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED.—So small in size as to be a proverbial comparison among the Jews for anything exceedingly small. GARDEN.— Matthew 13:31 has “field.” A GREAT...
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...
Matthew 13:33....