Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 11:29
It seeketh — The original word implies seeking more, or over and above what one has already.
It seeketh — The original word implies seeking more, or over and above what one has already.
Verse 29. _THIS IS AN EVIL GENERATION_] Or, _This is a wicked race _ _of men_. See on Matthew 12:38....
See the notes at Matthew 12:38....
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Prayer Given to the Disciples (Luke 11:1 .)_ 2. The Friend at Midnight. (Luke 11:5) 3. Encouragement to Pray. (Luke 11:11) 4. A Demon Cast Out and the Blasphemous Accusation. ...
THE SIGN OF JONAH (Matthew 12:38 *). Lk. omits the reference to the fish....
When the crowds were thronging upon him, he began to say, "This generation is a wicked generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah; for just as Jonah was a si...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
AND WHEN, &c. Luke 11:29 peculiar to Luke. WERE GATHERED. were gathering. Occurs only here. THIS, &c. See note on Matthew 11:18. EVIL. Greek. _poneros._ App-128. Compare Matthew 12:
_were gathered_ Rather, WERE DENSELY GATHERING....
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 WOMANLY EXCLAMATION. THE PERIL OF PRIVILEGES ABUSED...
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...
ἘΠΑΘΡΟΙΖΟΜΈΝΩΝ. ‘Were densely gathering.’ The word occurs here alone in the N.T....
Ver 29. And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. 30. For...
_THE PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY BLESSED -- LUKE 11:27-36:_ People talked to Jesus about who was really blessed. Jesus got right to the point and said, "Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep...
ΈΠΑΘΡΟΙΖΟΜΈΝΩΝ _praes. med. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΠΑΘΡΟΊΖΩ (G1865) собираться, толпиться. Предл. сочетание директивно, указывает на концентрацию действия, выраженного гл., на ряде объектов (МН, 312). _Ge...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Phenomenalism (Luke 11:29-36) 29 When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign shall be given to i...
And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered. See the notes at Matthew 12:22. Verse 14-20 For the expo...
27 This is a delicate yet decisive thrust at the slightest tendency toward Mariolatry. Mary was indeed most blessed to be chosen to bear such a Son, but it was a physical relationship, such as He sust...
THE SIGN OF JONAH (Matthew 12:38). See on Mt....
THE LORD'S PRAYER. THE SIGN OF JONAH 1-4. The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9). See on Mt. If the Lord's Prayer was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion. His version, however (as...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT PRAYER 11:1-13 1 THE PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT 11:1-4 V1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of...
(29-32) THIS IS AN EVIL GENERATION: THEY SEEK A SIGN. — See Notes on Matthew 12:38. The words here spoken are clearly an answer to the demand for a sign in Luke 11:16. In St. Matthew the demand and th...
_The sign of Jonah_ (Matthew 12:38-42). Τ. ὄ. ἐπαθροιζομένων, the crowds thronging to Him. The heading for the following discourse has been anticipated in Luke 11:16; ἕτεροι πειράζοντες, instead of Mt...
“THE SIGN OF JONAH” Luke 11:27-32 What a tribute this woman paid our Lord! He was full of grace as well as truth; and those who, with unbiased and unprejudiced minds, saw Him moving among men, were...
Watching the Master at prayer, His disciples were inspired with a desire to pray, and requested that they be taught. He responded to them in a fourfold statement. First, He gave them a model. Then He...
But the sign of Jonas. Instead of a prodigy in the heavens or in the air, I will give you one in the bosom of the earth, more wonderful than that of the prophet Jonas, who came out alive from the bell...
CHAPTER 24 THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES SEEK A SIGN FROM HEAVEN Matthew 12:38-45; Luke 11:16-36. “Then certain ones of the scribes and Pharisees responded, saying, Master, we wish to see a sign from The...
7. _The Blasphemy of the Pharisees: Luke 11:14-36_. We have already observed (see on Luke 6:11) how remarkably coincident in time are the accusations called forth in Galilee by the healings on the Sab...
4 _th. Luke 11:29-36_. _The Second Discourse._ This is the answer of Jesus to the demand which was addressed to Him to work a miracle proceeding from heaven (Luke 11:16). Strauss does not think that J...
(29) And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. (30) For a...
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...
_ASKING FOR A SIGN_ ‘This is an evil generation: they seek a sign.’ Luke 11:29 We see here the desperate unbelief of the Jews in our Lord’s time. We are told that though they ‘gathered thick togeth...
The prayer which He taught His disciples (chapter 11) has respect also to the position into which they came before the gift of the Holy Ghost. [32] Jesus Himself prayed, as the dependent man on earth....
AND WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE GATHERED THICK TOGETHER,.... Upon this woman's lifting up her voice, and saying the things she did; or rather to see what sign he would give, which some had desired Luke 11:16...
And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. Ver. 29. _Were...
_When the people were gathered thick together._ It seems, on this occasion, the multitude gathered round him in a great crowd, and pressed upon him, in expectation that he was going to show them the s...
A sign sought. Matthew 12:38-42; MARK 8:11-12....
AND WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE GATHERED THICK TOGETHER, HE BEGAN TO SAY, THIS IS AN EVIL GENERATION; THEY SEEK A SIGN, AND THERE SHALL NO SIGN BE GIVEN IT BUT THE SIGN OF JONAS THE PROPHET....
A WARNING TO THE JEWS....
VALUABLE INSTRUCTION AS TO PRAYER (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended in Mary). His...
29-36 Christ promised that there should be one sign more given, even the sign of Jonah the prophet; which in Matthew is explained, as meaning the resurrection of Christ; and he warned them to improve...
Ver. 29-32. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 12:38", and following verses to MATTHEW 12:42. Matthew saith, they were the Pharisees that came to him, desiring to see a sign from heaven: they did the same again, M...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV Behold how unequal, inconsistent, and capricious he is! Teaching one thing and doing another, he enjoins "giving to every one that seeks; "and yet he himself refuse...
Luke 11:29 And G1161 crowds G3793 together G1865 (G5746) began G756 (G5662) say G3004 (G5721) This...
JESUS CONDEMNATION OF THOSE WHO SEEK SIGNS (11:29-32). The passage now takes up the reference to those who sought a sign in Luke 11:16, and within the chiastic analysis of the whole Section parallels...
‘And when the crowds were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. And there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah.” ' We...
Luke 11:29-32. ANSWER TO THOSE WHO SOUGHT A SIGN. See on Matthew 12:39-42....
Luke 11:29. WHEN THE MULTITUDES, etc. Possibly in expectation of the ‘sign;' but the controversy with the Pharisees was a prolonged one, which would attract an increasing crowd....
CHRONOLOGY. The miracle and discourses here recorded are probably identical with those narrated in Matthew 12:22-45; Mark 3:23-30. Some have supposed that Luke gives the exact position, and not the ot...
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...
WERE GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM (επαθροιζομενων). Genitive absolute present middle participle of επαθροιζω, a rare verb, Plutarch and here only in the N.T., from επ and αθροιζω (a common enough ve...
Luke 11:14. _And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils thr...
CONTENTS: Jesus' doctrine of prayer. Jesus charged with casting out demons by Beelzebub, and His answer. Woes denounced upon the Pharisees and lawyers. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Jonah, Sol...
Luke 11:1. _Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples._ The disciples of John were eminent for fasting and prayer; and though the prayers of the jews were good, yet they were not exact...
29-32. THEY ASK FOR A MIRACLE. See notes _on_ Matthew 12:38-42....
_The sign, of Jonas the prophet--_ THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAS There is a peculiarity here which you ought carefully to consider. A sign was asked by an evil generation, that if Jesus were truly t...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:29 Verses Luke 11:29 answer the request of v. Luke 11:16. EVIL GENERATION. Th
CHAPTER 11 VER. 2. _When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name_. S. Matthew adds this prayer to the sermon on the mount, whilst S. Luke places it at a later period. Either...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 11:14. CASTING OUT A DEVIL.—There seems to be little doubt that this miracle is the same as that in Matthew 12:22, as wrought apparently in Galilee. In St. Matthew’s Gospel there...
EXPOSITION LUKE 11:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the_ _subject of prayer. _Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of _time _or _place _enables us to fix the scene or date with any...
Tonight, chapter 11 in the gospel according to Luke. Again, as Luke is pointing out the human side of Jesus, though He was God, He became man. He is the God-man. He is divine, and yet, He is human. Th...
1 Corinthians 1:22; Acts 7:51; Acts 7:52; Isaiah 57:3; Isaiah 57:4;...
Were gathered thick together [ε π α θ ρ ο ι ζ ο μ ε ν ω ν]. The present participle; and therefore, as Rev., were gathering together unto him, or upon him [ε π ι]. Only here in New Testament. Evil. Se...
The sign which the Pharisees here desired of our Saviour, was. miracle wrought by him. Now our Saviour, though he was very ready to work miracles to encourage and confirm his hearers' faith, yet not t...