John Trapp Complete Commentary
Luke 23:48
And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
Ver. 48. See Matthew 27:54 .
And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
Ver. 48. See Matthew 27:54 .
LUKE 23:48 u`pe,strefon In order to heighten the account, several witnesses include various interpolations. After ta. sth,qh codex Bezae adds kai. ta. me,twpa (“beating their breasts _and their foreh...
Verse 48. _AND ALL THE PEOPLE_] All were deeply affected except the priests, and those whom they had employed to serve their base purposes. The darkness, earthquake, c., had brought terror and conster...
See the notes at Matthew 27:52. Luke 23:48 THE THINGS WHICH WERE DONE - The earthquake, the darkness, and the sufferings of Jesus. SMOTE THEIR BREASTS - In token of alarm, fear, and anguish. They sa...
CHAPTER 23 _ 1. The son of man before Pilate and Herod. (Luke 23:1)_ 2. Pilate Yields to the People's Will; Barabbas Freed and the Son of man Condemned. (Luke 23:13) 3. The Crucifixion of the Son Of...
THE DEATH OF JESUS (Mark 15:33 *, Matthew 27:45 *). LUKE 23:45. THE SUN'S LIGHT FAILING: the words do not necessarily imply an eclipse. The rending of the Temple veil is earlier than in Mk....
By this time it was about midday, and there was darkness over the whole land until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the light of the sun failed. And the veil of the Temple was rent in the midst. When J...
TRIAL BEFORE PILATE AND SILENCE BEFORE HEROD (Luke 23:1-12)...
PEOPLE. crowds. WERE DONE. took place. SMOTE, &c.. beating. returned. The women "stood". returned. Greek. _hupostrepho. turned_ back. Occurs thirty-two times in Luke and Acts, and only three times e...
_all the people_ Rather, all the crowds. _smote their breasts, and returned_ Rather, returned, smiting their breasts. It must be remembered that the People had not acted spontaneously in this matter,...
DARKNESS. THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE RENT. THE END. REMORSE OF THE SPECTATORS...
ΠΆΝΤΕΣ ΟἹ … ὌΧΛΟΙ. ‘All the crowds.’ ΤΎΠΤΟΝΤΕΣ ΤᾺ ΣΤΉΘΗ ὙΠΈΣΤΡΕΦΟΝ. ‘Returned, smiting their breasts.’ It must be remembered that the People had not acted spontaneously in this matter, but had been g...
VER 47. NOW WHEN THE CENTURION SAW WHAT WAS DONE, HE GLORIFIED GOD, SAYING, CERTAINLY THIS WAS A RIGHTEOUS MAN. 48. AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAME TOGETHER TO THAT SIGHT, BEHOLDING THE THINGS WHICH WERE...
ΣΥΜΠΑΡΑΓΕΝΌΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (adj.) от_ ΣΥΜΠΑΡΑΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G4836) собираться вместе, сходиться, ΘΕΩΡΊΑ (G2335) представление, зрелище, ΘΕΩΡΉΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.), см._ Luke 23:35....
DISCOURSE: 1588 THE EFFECT OF CHRIST’S DEATH ON THE BEHOLDERS Luke 23:47._ Now when the Centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man. And all the people t...
AND ALL THE PEOPLE—SMOTE THEIR BREASTS— The people who came to behold this melancholy spectacle, were wonderfully affected when Jesus gave up the ghost. They had been instant, with loud voices, to hav...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Impaled (Luke 23:26-49) 26 And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Je...
And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. For the exposition, see the notes at ; and at John 19:31....
26 Compare Mat_27:32; Mar_15:21; Joh_19:17. 26 Tradition has sought to surround the cross with a false glamour by making it cross-shaped, instead of a single upright stake. The word "cross" itself has...
TRIAL BEFORE PILATE AND HEROD. THE CRUCIFIXION AND BURIAL 1-5. The trial before Pilate begins (Matthew 27:1; Matthew 27:11; Mark 15:1; John 18:2
CRUCIFIXION AND DEATH OF JESUS (Matthew 27:33; Mark 15:23; John 19:18). See on Mt and Jn. Peculiar to Lk are three of the Seven Words from the Cross, and the incident of the Converted Thief....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 23 PILATE EXAMINES JESUS 23:1-7 V1 The whole group rose up and took Jesus to Pilate. V2 They began to accuse him. ‘We caught this man because he is c...
TO THAT SIGHT. — The word is used by St. Luke-only in the New Testament, and exactly expresses the purpose of those who had come as to gaze on a “spectacle.” These had probably taken little or no part...
(47-49) NOW WHEN THE CENTURION SAW WHAT WAS DONE... — See Notes on Matthew 27:54; Mark 15:40. The phrase “glorified God” is, as has been noticed already (Luke 5:25), specially characteristic of St. Lu...
θεωρίαν, sight, here only (3Ma 5:24). τὰ γενόμενα, the things that had happened; comprehensively, including the crucifixion and all its accompaniments. They had looked on and listened, and the result...
_After crucifixion_ (Matthew 27:45-56; Mark 15:33-41)....
FAITH FROM, UNEXPECTED QUARTERS Luke 23:47-56 God has His agents everywhere. They are not known to us, but are well known to Him, and one word from Him will bring them and their resources to His hel...
This is the story of the Cross, and, as in dealing with other Gospels, it is best read in reverent quietness and meditation. We see all the forces of evil as represented in the Jewish priests and in P...
CHAPTER 28 CONCURRENT MIRACLES Luke 23:45-49; Mark 15:38-41; Matthew 27:51-56. Our Lord has already expired on the cross, and now we proceed to consider the concurrent miracles so overwhelmingly atte
THIRD CYCLE: CLOSE OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE PASSION, LUKE 23:47-56. Vers. 47-49. These verses describe the immediate effects of our Lord's death, first on the Roman centurion (Luke 23:47), then on the p...
"And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. (45) And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. (46) And when Jesus...
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...
_LESSONS FROM THE CROSS_ ‘And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.’ Luke 23:48 We, too, have come together this...
The Gentiles, however, are not presented in this Gospel as being voluntarily guilty. We see, no doubt, an indifference which is flagrant injustice in a case like this, and an insolence which nothing c...
AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAME TOGETHER TO THAT SIGHT,.... To see the execution of Jesus; and some of them might be his inveterate enemies, and came to insult him, and did insult him; many of these, tho...
_Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit_ The Father receives the spirit of Jesus; Jesus himself the spirits of the faithful. See on Matthew 27:50. _When the centurion_ The Roman officer, who stood...
The crucifixion. Matthew 27:33-56....
AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAME TOGETHER TO THAT SIGHT, BEHOLDING THE THINGS WHICH WERE DONE, SMOTE THEIR BREASTS AND RETURNED....
The death of Jesus:...
DELIVERED TO PONTIUS PILATE (vs.1-5) It was still early morning when the Lord Jesus was brought to the judgment hall of Pilate, the Roman governor (John 18:28), for the Jews were determined to quick...
44-49 We have here the death of Christ magnified by the wonders that attended it, and his death explained by the words with which he breathed out his soul. He was willing to offer himself. Let us seek...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 23:47...
The Teaching of Addaeus the Apostle of their city, nor would they have brought down Woe! upon themselves.[27]...
Luke 23:48 And G2532 whole G3956 crowd G3793 together G4836 (G5637) to G1909 that G5026 sight G2335 seeing...
THE FINAL HOURS (23:44-49). It was now half way through the day, and for Jesus the worst was yet to come. For now He entered into such an experience as was to tear at His very soul. But Luke passes it...
‘And all the crowds who came together to this sight, when they beheld the things that were done, returned smiting their breasts.' The things that had happened moved the crowds. They had long sought si...
Luke 23:48. AND ALL THE MULTITUDES, etc. No mention is made of the rulers. Jerusalem was crowded, and the ‘multitudes' were great. This sight, or ‘spectacle.' THE THINGS WHICH WERE DONE. These put a...
Luke 23:47-49. THE EFFECT ON THE SPECTATORS. See on Matthew 27:54-56; Mark 15:39-41. Luke inserts a new detail in Luke 23:48....
Among the peculiarities of Luke's description we notice particularly the scene on the way to Calvary (Luke 23:27-32), and the story of the penitent robber (Luke 23:39-43). Both of these accord with th...
CERTAINLY (οντως). Really, old adverb from the participle ον from ειμ, to be. Used also in Luke 24:34 of the resurrection of Jesus.A RIGHTEOUS MAN (δικαιος). Mark 15:39 (Matthew 27:54) which see,...
Luke 23:27. And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep fo...
Luke 23:27. _And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him._ Their best Friend, the Healer of their sick, the Lover of their children, was about...
Luke 23:1 , _And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. And they began to accuse him saying, We found this_ Put in what word you like villains scoundrel our translators could not...
CONTENTS: Jesus before Pilate and Herod. Barabbas released and Jesus condemned. The cricifixion and entombment. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pilate, Caesar, Herod, Barabbas, Simon, two thieves, Joseph. CONCLUS...
Luke 23:12. _The same day Pilate and Herod were made friends._ This occurrence is quoted in Acts 4:27, as an accomplishment of the prophecy in the second psalm. Luke 23:22. He said to them the third t...
THE OTHER ONE, HOWEVER. This one has a "change of heart," and rebukes his fellow criminal. Alford (Greek Testament) mentions that some feel this penitent criminal was a disciple of Christ. If he was,...
THEY TOOK JESUS AWAY. The most complete notes on the Crucifixion are found in Matthew 27:32-56. A LARGE CROWD OF PEOPLE FOLLOWED HIM. This shows that Jesus had a lot of sympathizers in Jerusalem. WOME...
_Smote their breasts_ THE SPECTATORS OF THE CRUCIFIXION SMITING THEIR BREASTS I. BEHOLDING CHRIST ON THE CROSS. Look on the multitude now--see how they who before had triumphed in His misery, are str...
_Certainly this was a righteous man_ THE CROSS, THE SOURCE OF COMPUNCTION Many reasons have been given to account for that providence of God which determined that the Cross should be the kind of dea...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 23:48 BEATING THEIR BREASTS. A sign of grief and repentance (compare Luke 18:13)....
Jesus dies on the cross Matthew 27:45-56; Mark 15:33-41; Luke 23:44-49; John 19:28-37;...
CHAPTER 23 VER. 39. _And one of the malefactors which were hanged_ (this one, according to tradition, hung on the left hand of Christ) _railed_ _on Him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 23:32.—MALEFACTORS.—Called by St. Matthew and St. Mark “robbers.” Probably they were insurgents against Roman rule, who had been more like brigands than patriots. Luke 23:33. CA...
EXPOSITION LUKE 23:1 _The trial before Pilate_:_ First examination._ LUKE 23:1 AND THE WHOLE MULTITUDE OF THEM AROSE, AND LED HIM UNTO PILATE. The Sanhedrin had now formally condemned Jesus to dea...
And the whole multitude of them arose, and they led him unto Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and sayi...
Acts 2:37; Jeremiah 31:19; Luke 18:13...
All the people — Who had not been actors therein, returned smiting their breasts — In testimony of sorrow....