Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 11:51
And so it was within forty years, in a most astonishing manner, by the dreadful destruction of the temple, the city, and the whole nation. Between the temple and the altar — In the court of the temple.
And so it was within forty years, in a most astonishing manner, by the dreadful destruction of the temple, the city, and the whole nation. Between the temple and the altar — In the court of the temple.
Verse Luke 11:51. _FROM THE BLOOD OF ABEL_] See this subject explained at large on Matthew 23:34. _REQUIRED_] εκζητηθησεται may be translated either by the word _visited_ or _revenged_, and the latt...
See the notes at Matthew 23:29. Luke 11:49 THE WISDOM OF GOD - By the “wisdom of God,” here, is undoubtedly meant the Saviour himself. What he immediately says is not written in the Old Testament. Je...
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. ...
CONDEMNATION OF PHARISEES AND SCRIBES._ Cf._ (though the arrangement is different) Matthew 23*, where the Jerusalem setting is more suitable (perhaps Lk. wishes to make the Jerusalem discourses end wi...
A scribe answered, "Teacher, when you talk like that you are insulting us." Jesus said, "Woe to you scribes too! because you bind burdens upon men that are hard to bear and you yourselves do not lay a...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
ABEL. Genesis 4:8. App-117. ZACHARIAS. See note on Matthew 23:35. THE ALTAR. Of burnt offering, THE TEMPLE. Greek. the house: i.e. the _naos,_ or Sanctuary. See note on Matthew 23:16,...
_unto the blood of Zacharias_ His murder by Joash is described in 2 Chronicles 24:20-21, and also filled a large place in Jewish legends. The words "the son of Barachiah," in Matthew 23:35, are probab...
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...
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...
ἝΩΣ ΑἽΜΑΤΟΣ ΖΑΧΑΡΊΟΥ. His murder by Joash is described in 2 Chronicles 24:20-21, and also filled a large place in Jewish legends. The words “the son of Barachiah,” in Matthew 23:35, are probably an er...
49–51. These verses were arbitrarily omitted by Marcion....
THE INVITATION OF THE PHARISEE AND THE OPEN RUPTURE...
Ver 45. Then answered one of the Lawyers, and said to him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also. 46. And he said, Woe to you also, you Lawyers! for you lade men with burdens grievous to be borne,...
_JESUS REBUKED THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES -- LUKE 11:37-54:_ Jesus condemned the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses. As Jesus ate with a Pharisee he was shocked that Jesus did not keep thei...
ΆΠΟΛΟΜΈΝΟΥ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (adj.) от_ ΆΠΌΛΛΥΜΙ (G622) разрушать, распускать; _med._ погибать, ΜΕΤΑΞΎ (G3342) между, с _gen._ ΈΚΖΗΤΗΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass._, _см._ Luke 11:50....
THAT THE BLOOD OF ALL THE PROPHETS, &C.— "Hereby you will far exceed your fathers in extensive and outrageous instances of wickedness, which God will suffer you to commit, in defiance of greater merci...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Pharisaism (Luke 11:37-54) 37 While he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in and sat at table. 38The Pharisee was astonished to see, that he...
And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, NOW DO YE PH...
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 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...
CHRIST IS ENTERTAINED BY A PHARISEE. HE DENOUNCES PHARISAIC FORMALISM AND HYPOCRISY. For the relation of this discourse to Matthew 23:1, see on Matthew 23:1....
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...
(49-51) THEREFORE ALSO SAID THE WISDOM OF GOD. — The words that follow are in the main the same as those of Matthew 23:34, where see Notes. There are, however, some remarkable variations, each of whic...
FROM THE BLOOD OF ABEL.... — See Note on Matthew 23:35. We note the absence here of the description “Zacharias, son of Barachias,” which causes so much perplexity in St. Matthew’s report. So far as it...
τοῦ ἀπολομένου who perished, in place of the harsher whom ye slew of Mt. τοῦ οἴκου = τοῦ ναοῦ in Mt., the temple....
_Castigation of the scribes present_; severe, but justified by having been invited....
_In the house of a Pharisee; criticism of the religion of Pharisees and scribes_ (Matthew 23). This section contains a selection of the hard sayings of Jesus on the “righteousness of the scribes and P...
SEARCHING WORDS FOR HYPOCRITES Luke 11:45-54 The minute oral and written rules promulgated by the Hebrew religious leaders overlaid and almost buried under their weight the simple Mosaic code. They w...
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...
Blood of Zacharias, &c. This Zacharias was, according to some Zacharias the son of Joiada, whom the Jews slew between the temple and the altar. (Theophylactus, --- also St. Jerome, who moreover mentio...
WOES PRONOUNCED ON THE PHARISEES & THEOLOGIANS Luke 11:42-54. _“But woe unto you Pharisees, because you tithe mint, anise, and every herb, and you pass by judgment and the love of God; it behooveth yo...
_Persecuting Orthodoxy._ “ _Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them._ 48. _Truly ye are witnesses that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they inde...
2 _d. To the Scribes: Luke 11:45-54_. A remark made by a scribe gives a new turn to the conversation. The Pharisees were only a religious party; but the scribes, the experts in the law, formed a profe...
(42) But, woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgement, and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. (43...
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 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....
FROM THE BLOOD OF ABEL,.... "Righteous Abel", as in Matthew 23:35 and so read the Arabic version here, and two manuscripts in the Bodleian library, and three of Stephens's copies; the Persic version...
From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. Ver. 51. See Matthew 23:35 ....
Sin and doom of the Pharisees. Matthew 23:4; Matthew 23:29-36....
The last woe and its effect:...
FROM THE BLOOD OF ABEL UNTO THE BLOOD OF ZACHARIAS, WHICH PERISHED BETWEEN THE ALTAR AND THE TEMPLE. VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, IT SHALL BE REQUIRED OF THIS GENERATION....
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...
37-54 We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God ha...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 11:47...
The Protevangelium of James And Zacharias was murdered about daybreak. And the sons of Israel did not know that he had been murdered.[53]...
Luke 11:51 from G575 blood G129 Abel G6 to G2193 blood G129 Zechariah G2197 who G3588 perished G622 ...
“Therefore also said the wisdom of God, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute', that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundati...
THE WOEFUL STATE OF THOSE WHOSE LIGHT IS DARKNESS, AND WHO THEREFORE COME UNDER HIS WOES (11:37-52). But sadly there are those whose eyes turn away from the light. Instead of their eyes being fixed on...
Luke 11:50-51. See on Matthew 23:35-36....
THIS discourse closely resembles the great denunciation of the Pharisees (Matthew 23); but the circumstances of the two are entirely different; the one was uttered just before our Lord departed solemn...
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...
FROM THE BLOOD OF ABEL TO THE BLOOD OF ZACHARIAH (απο αιματος Αβελ εως αιματος Ζαχαριου). The blood of Abel is the first shed in the Old Testament (Genesis 4:10), that of Zacharias the last in the O...
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...
SO THE LORD SAID TO HIM. Jesus may have said this more than once. See notes on a similar lesson in Matthew 23:1-36; Luke 11:41 is only given by Luke. The Jewish leaders hated everybody who was not a p...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:47 The unusual expression WISDOM OF GOD probably means “God in his wisdom” or “God, speaking to express his wisdom.” FROM THE BLOOD OF ABEL ...
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 11:37. BESOUGHT.—Simply, “asked” (R.V.). TO DINE.—Rather, “that He would _breakfast_ with him.” The word used means a noon-day meal = our late breakfast or luncheon. Luke 11:38....
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 John 3:12; 2 Chronicles 24:20; Genesis 4:8; Hebrews 11:4;...
The altar and the temple. Oikou, temple, lit., house, is equivalent to naou, sanctuary (Rev.), in Matthew 23:35. The altar is the altar of burnt - offering. See on Matthew 4:5; and compare 2 Chronicle...