Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 12:51
Suppose ye that I am come to send peace upon earth — That universal peace will be the immediate effect of my coming? Not so, but quite the contrary. Matthew 10:34.
Suppose ye that I am come to send peace upon earth — That universal peace will be the immediate effect of my coming? Not so, but quite the contrary. Matthew 10:34.
Verse 51. _TO GIVE PEACE_] See Matthew 10:34....
See the notes at Matthew 10:34....
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. ...
SIGNS OF THE TIMES. For parallels see below. Jesus is oppressed with the thought of the future till it is accomplished. LUKE 12:49 F. Lk. only. Fire is what Jesus has come to cast on the earth (_cf._...
Jesus said, "I came to cast fire upon the earth. And what do I wish? Would that it were already kindled! There is an experience through which I must pass; and now I am under tension until it is accomp...
THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
I AM COME. I became present, as in Acts 21:18. TO GIVE PEACE. This was the _object of_ His coming (Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 9:7): but the _e. fect of His_ presence would bring war. He came not to judge ...
_Suppose ye_ as they were far too much inclined to suppose, Luke 19:11 _that I am come to give peace on earth_ It is only in His _ultimate_ kingdom that Christ will be fully the Prince of Peace, as wa...
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...
ΔΟΚΕΙ͂ΤΕ. As they were far too much inclined to suppose, Luke 19:11. ὍΤΙ ΕἸΡΉΝΗΝ ΠΑΡΕΓΕΝΌΜΗΝ ΔΟΥ͂ΝΑΙ ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΓΗ͂Ι. It is only in His _ultimate_ kingdom that Christ will be fully the Prince of Peace, a...
LESSONS OF TRUSTFULNESS (22–32), ALMSGIVING (33, 34), AND FAITHFUL WATCHFULNESS (35–48). THE SEARCHING EFFECT OF CHRIST’S WORK (49–53)...
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 49. I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be already kindled? 50. But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straightened till it be accomplished! 51. Suppose you...
ΠΑΡΕΓΕΝΌΜΗΝ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΑΡΑΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G3854) прибывать, приходить, ΔΟΎΝΑΙ _aor. act. inf., см._ Luke 12:32. _Inf._ цели, ΔΙΑΜΕΡΙΣΜΌΣ (G1267) разделение....
SUPPOSE YE, &C.— By subduing all the nations of the world into one great monarchy, under the Jews? _I tell you nay._ There are so many prophesies of the peaceful state of the Messiah's kingdom, that i...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Attitudes That Aid Alertness (Luke 12:49-59) 49 I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled!50I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Mission of the Son of Man Scripture_ Luke 12:49-53 I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if it is already kindled? 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized...
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: SUPPOSE YE THAT I AM COME TO GIVE PEACE ON EARTH? I TELL YOU, NAY - `in the first instance, the reverse.'...
39 As most of the houses in Palestine were built of sun-dried clay, or adobe, a thief could best effect an entrance by digging his way through the walls. They literally burrowed their way into a house...
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...
THE STRIFE THAT THE GOSPEL WILL PRODUCE. In different connexions in Mt....
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...
(51-53) SUPPOSE YE THAT I AM COME TO GIVE PEACE? — See Notes on Matthew 10:34. The chief variations are “division” for “sword,” and, in Luke 12:53, the doubled statement of reciprocated enmity in each...
διαμερισμόν : instead of Mt.'s μάχαιραν, an abstract prosaic term for a concrete pictorial one; exactly descriptive of the fact, however, and avoiding possible misapprehension as to Christ's aim = Jes...
_Not peace but division_ (Matthew 10:34-36). This section is introduced by no connecting particle. Yet there is a certain affinity of thought. Strict fidelity demanded under penalties, but fidelity no...
THE GREAT DIVIDER Luke 12:49-59 As Prometheus, in the old Greek fable, brought fire from above in a reed, so Christ brought the fire of the Holy Spirit in the frail lantern of His humanity. But, firs...
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...
THE FIERY BAPTISM Luke 12:49-53. _“I came to send fire on the earth, and what do I wish if it is already kindled?”_ This is none other than the fiery baptism of Pentecost, which Jesus came to send on...
4 _th. To the Apostles: Luke 12:41-53_. Up till now, Jesus had been speaking to all believers; from this point, on occasion of a question put by Peter, He addresses the apostles in particular, and rem...
After having thus followed the natural course of the conversation, Jesus returns to the thought from which it had started, the vanity of earthly goods. He shows how this truth directly applies to the...
(49) I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be already kindled? (50) But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished? (51) Suppose ye tha...
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...
Luke 12:51._Do you suppose that I came to send peace on the earth? _What Christ has now demanded from his disciples any one of them would reckon it an easy matter to give, if the whole world, with one...
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...
SUPPOSE YE THAT I AM COME TO GIVE PEACE ON EARTH?.... To set up a temporal kingdom, in great pomp, and outward peace and tranquility? Christ came to make peace with God for men, and to give the Gospel...
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: Ver. 51. See Matthew 10:34 ....
_I am come to send fire on earth_ Our Lord concludes his charge to his disciples with foretelling the divisions that should be occasioned by his gospel. See on Matthew 10:34. As if he had said, After...
RATHER DIVISION; Christ came to send divisions in the same sense in which he came to send fire and sword. His gospel would not produce divisions, but men's opposition to it would. Luke 12:19; MATTHEW...
The dissension caused by the Gospel:...
SUPPOSE YE THAT I AM COME TO GIVE PEACE ON EARTH? I TELL YOU, NAY; BUT RATHER DIVISION;...
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,...
41-53 All are to take to themselves what Christ says in his word, and to inquire concerning it. No one is left so ignorant as not to know many things to be wrong which he does, and many things to be...
Ver. 51-53. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 10:34", SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 10:35". Our Saviour in these words doth but pursue the same argument which began LUKE 12:49, to show what would be the consequences of t...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV , when He goes on to say, "Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division."[1209] Recognitions of Clement II For you say, t...
Luke 12:51 suppose G1380 (G5719) that G3754 came G3854 (G5633) give G1325 (G5629) peace G1515 on...
“Do you think that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, No, but rather division.” Having spoken of the fire that He is casting on the earth He now stresses what its result will be, that r...
THE FUTURE WILL NOT ALL BE ROSY (12:49-53). As Jesus contemplates the thought of the punishments which will be inflicted on the various unfaithful servants, it carries His thought forward on to what n...
Luke 12:51-53. See on Matthew 10:34-36, which however was probably spoken later than this. DIVISION is equivalent to ‘a sword' (Matthew). This would be the effect of the ‘fire' He would send. His own...
Luke 12:49-53. Having shown the awful difference between the faithful and unfaithful servant, and the great responsibility resting upon His disciples, our Lord points out that the difference begins he...
CONTENTS. A continuation of the discourse. Luke 12:35-48 contain exhortations to _watchfulness;_ the difference between the faithful and unfaithful servant suggests a difficulty in the way of faithful...
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...
BUT RATHER DIVISION (αλλ' η διαμερισμον). Peace at any price is not the purpose of Christ. It is a pity for family jars to come, but loyalty to Christ counts more than all else. These ringing words...
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...
NOT PEACE, I TELL YOU, BUT DIVISION. Following Jesus sometimes "tears us loose" from both people and things we love. See note _on_ Matthew 10:34....
_Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?_ STRIFE ENGENDERED BY THE GOSPEL We try to soften this terrible prophecy by our comments. As if we could explain facts which are notorious to every...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:49 CAST FIRE ON THE EARTH probably refers to the division between believers and unbelievers (vv. Luke 12:51). I have a bapti
VER. 42. _And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward whom his lord shall set over his household to give them their portion of food in due season?_ Christ replied to Peter that He sp...
_Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I_ _tell you nay, but rather division._ See what I have said Matthew 10:34....
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 12:49. I AM COME.—Rather, “I came” (R.V.). The tense refers to the historical fact of the Incarnation. Note in this the consciousness of pre-existence, as also of a heavenly orig...
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...
Luke 12:49; Matthew 10:34; Matthew 24:7; Zechariah 11:10;...