John Trapp Complete Commentary
Luke 12:7
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Ver. 7. See Trapp on " Mat 10:29 "
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Ver. 7. See Trapp on " Mat 10:29 "
Verse Luke 12:7. _FEAR NOT THEREFORE_] Want of faith in the providence and goodness of God is the source of all human inquietudes and fears. He has undertaken to save and defend those to the uttermos...
NOTHING COVERED - See the notes at Matthew 10:26. Luke 12:3 SHALL BE PROCLAIMED UPON THE HOUSETOPS - See the notes at Matthew 10:27. The custom of maki
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Warning Against Hypocrisy. (Luke 12:1)_ 2. Encouragements. (Luke 12:4) 3. Warning Against Covetousness. (Luke 12:15) 4. Warning Against Anxiety. ...
LUKE 12. A COLLECTION OF SAYINGS taken from Q and arranged in groups with more or less suitable introductions. LUKE 12:1. JESUS ENCOURAGES HIS DISCIPLES. (For parallels in Mt. see below.) After a war...
In the meantime, when the people had been gathered together in their thousands, so that they trampled on each other, Jesus began to say first of all to his disciples, "Be on your guard against the lea...
THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
ARE. have been. See note on Matthew 10:30; Acts 27:34. and compare 1 Samuel 14:45; 1 Kings 1:52. MORE VALUE. differ from: i.e. excel.
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...
_even the very hairs of your head_ See Luke 21:18; Acts 27:34; and in the O. T. 1 Samuel 14:45; 1 Kings 1:52....
ΚΑῚ ΑἹ ΤΡΊΧΕΣ ΤΗ͂Σ ΚΕΦΑΛΗ͂Σ ὙΜΩ͂Ν. See Luke 21:18; Acts 27:34; and in the O. T. 1 Samuel 14:45; 1 Kings 1:52. ΔΙΑΦΈΡΕΤΕ. The verb means (1) to
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...
Luke 12:1-12. THE DUTY OF BOLD SINCERITY AND TRUST IN GOD...
VER 4. AND I SAY TO YOU MY FRIENDS, BE NOT AFRAID OF THEM THAT KILL THE BODY, AND AFTER THAT HAVE NO MORE THAT THEY CAN DO. 5. BUT I WILL FOREWARN YOU WHOM YOU SHALL FEAR: FEAR HIM, WHICH AFTER HE HAS...
ΤΡΊΧΕΣ _nom. pl._ от ΘΡΊΞ (G2359) волосы, ΉΡΊΘΜΗΝΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΆΡΙΘΜΈΩ (G705) считать; _pass._ быть сосчитанным. _Perf._ указывает на неизменный результат, ΦΟΒΕΊΣΘΕPRAES. _imper. med. (d...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Arguments for Alertness (Luke 12:1-12) 12 In the meantime, when so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trod upon one another, he began to say...
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. BUT EVEN THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE ALL NUMBERED. FEAR NOT THEREFORE: YE AR...
46 Compare Mat_23:4. 47 Compare Mat_23:29-36. 51 Compare Gen_4:8; 2Ch_24:20-21. 51 Men are to be judged by what they know as well as by what they do. To do that which you condemn in others convicts...
THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES. THE RICH FOOL 1-12. Jesus warns His followers against Pharisaic hypocrisy, and exhorts them to be courageous in face of opposition. This speech is not unsuitable to the co...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 JESUS WARNS AND ENCOURAGES HIS *DISCIPLES 12:1-12 1 WARNING ABOUT THE FALSE LIVES OF THE *PHARISEES 12:1-3 V1 Thousands of people had gathered. T...
(4-9) I SAY UNTO YOU MY FRIENDS. — See Notes on Matthew 10:28. The opening words, however, in their tender sympathy, anticipating the language of John 15:14, may be noted as peculiar to St. Luke....
ἠρίθμηνται, they remain numbered, once for all; number never forgotten, one would be missed....
_Exhortation to fearless utterance_, addressed to the disciples (_cf._ Matthew 10:17-33). ἐν οἷς, in these circumstances, _i.e._, while the assaults of the Pharisees and scribes on Jesus were going on...
THE SECRET OF FEARLESSNESS Luke 12:1-12 The program of this paragraph seems dark. The leaven of evil always at work; the body tortured and killed; confession difficult, denial easy; the trials befor...
Knowing that the enmity of the rulers against Him would proceed also against His disciples, He told them not to be afraid of those who kill the body, remembering ever their Father's care, as revealed...
CHAPTER 25 LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES Luke 12:1. _“Meanwhile myriads of the multitude, having come together, so that they were treading on one another, He began to speak first to His disciples, Take hee...
_Personal Security._ “ _And I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do._ 5. _But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear; fear Hi...
3 _d. To the Disciples: Luke 12:1-12_. This violent scene had found its echo outside; a considerable crowd had flocked together. Excited by the animosity of their chiefs, the multitude showed a dispos...
(1) In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the...
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...
chapter 12 puts the disciples into this place of testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost, and with the world opposed to them, after the Lord's departure. It is the word and the Holy Ghost, instead of...
BUT EVEN THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE ALL NUMBERED,.... Not only their persons had passed under the hands of him that telleth them, who is the "Palmoni", or "wonderful numberer", as in the margin o...
_Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings_ Ασσαριων δυο, _two pence_, as Dr. Campbell translates it, or “three half-pence sterling;” _and not one of them is forgotten before God_ As if he had said...
BE NOT AFRAID; a very common form of hypocrisy has always been dissimulation and the denial of Christ through fear of man. Compare John 12:42-43. The Saviour, therefore, next warns his disciples again...
True fearlessness:...
BUT EVEN THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE ALL NUMBERED. FEAR NOT THEREFORE; YE ARE OF MORE VALUE THAN MANY SPARROWS. As friends Jesus addresses His disciples, a title showing His love and trust in them...
THE PEOPLE WARNED AGAINST FALSE LEADERS (vs.1-12) At a time when the crowd was extremely large, the Lord addressed His disciples "first of all," warning them to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees,...
1-12 A firm belief of the doctrine of God's universal providence, and the extent of it, would satisfy us when in peril, and encourage us to trust God in the way of duty. Providence takes notice of th...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 12:6...
Luke 12:7 But G235 very G2532 hairs G2359 your G5216 head G2776 are G705 all G3956 numbered G705 ...
SECTION 5 (12:1-14:35). We commence here a new section of Luke. As we shall see this section centres around a mighty act of Jesus in delivering a woman bound by Satan, and thus doubled up and unable t...
INSTRUCTION TO HIS DISCIPLES ABOUT LIVING IN THE LIGHT OF ETERNITY (12:1-12). Approaching the detail of the section the first thing that Jesus wants to do is make His disciples think in the light of e...
Luke 12:2-9. See on Matthew 10:26-33, which was also spoken to the disciples. MY FRIENDS (Luke 12:4) is peculiar, see John 15:13-15
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...
CHAPTER 12 is made up of a series of discourses following each other in immediate succession, but with less of unity and logical connection than are found in most of our Lord's recorded sermons. Some...
Luke 12:1-12. WARNING AGAINST HYPOCRISY. Comp. the various parallel passages in Matthew. The connection: ‘Beware of hypocrisy (Luke 12:1), for all shall be made evident in the end (Luke 12:2), and ye...
NUMBERED (ηριθμηντα). Perfect passive indicative. Periphrastic form in Matthew 10:30 which see for details about sparrows, etc....
Luke 12:6 These words occur in a discourse of the Lord to His disciples, in which He is instructing and preparing them for their future work as the heralds and preachers of His kingdom. He tells them...
In this chapter, our Saviour dispels the fears of his disciples concerning temporal things, and especially their fear of persecution and their fear of want. Luke 12:1. In the mean time, when there we...
The teaching of our Lord, in this chapter, has very much to do with Christianity in connection with this present life, and its cares and troubles. God has nowhere promised us exemption from affliction...
CONTENTS: Jesus warns of leaven of the Pharisees. Parable of the rich fool. Parable of the second coming. Parable of the steward and his servants. Christ, the divider of men. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disci...
Luke 12:1. _There were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek is myriads, or ten thousands of people. Luke 12:5. _Power to cast into hell._ The Greek is Gehenna, as on Isaiah...
AREN'T FIVE SPARROWS SOLD FOR TWO PENNIES? Sparrows were the cheapest birds sold. See notes on Matthew 10:29-33,...
_Not one of them is forgotten before God_ GOD’S UNIVERSAL OVERSIGHT You see the Bible will not be limited in the choice of symbols, and there is hardly beast, or bird, or insect which has not been c...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:6 OF MORE VALUE signals a “lesser to greater” argument (see note on 11:11–13). ⇐
CHAPTER 12 VER. 1. _In the mean time when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek has "the myriads of the multitude." A myriad contains exactly ten thousand, and is...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 12:1. AN INNUMERABLE MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE.—“The many thousands of the multitude” (R.V.); lit. “the myriads of the multitude.” The discourse in this chapter is evidently in continu...
EXPOSITION LUKE 12:1 _The Lord_,_ after leaving the Pharisee_'_s house_,_ speaks at great length to a numerous crowd waiting for him_,_ addressing his words principally to his own disciples. _The for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 12. We are dealing with the final month in the ministry of Jesus. He has returned to Jerusalem. He will soon be leaving Jerusalem to go down to th...
1 Samuel 14:45; 2 Samuel 14:11; Acts 27:34; Isaiah 43:3; Isaiah 43:4;
Confess me. Lit., "confess in me." See on Matthew 10:32....
Matthew 10:30....