Verse Luke 12:8. _SHALL CONFESS_] See on Matthew 10:32; Matthew 10:33....
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)...
SHALL. may (with Greek. _an)._ ME. in (Greek. _en._ App-104.) Me: i.e. in My Name. BEFORE. in the presence of. Greek. _emprosthen._ MEN. Plural of _anthropos._ App-123. HIM. in him. SHALL. will....
_before the angels of God_ Compare Luke 9:26. "Before my Father which is in heaven," Matthew 10:32....
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...
ὉΜΟΛΟΓΉΣΗΙ ἘΝ ἘΜΟΊ. We have the same idiom in Matthew 10:32. It resembles a Hebrew phrase. Psalms 32:5. ἜΜΠΡΟΣΘΕΝ ΤΩ͂Ν�. Compare Luke 9:26. “Before my Father which is in heaven,”...
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 8. Also I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: 9. But he that denies me before men shall be denied before the angels o...
ΌΣ ΆΝ (G3739; G159) всякий, ΌΜΟΛΟΓΉΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΌΜΟΛΟΓΈΩ (G3670) соглашаться, исповедовать. Выражение с предлогом семитское и означает: "утверждать перед человеком то, что, как ты знаешь,...
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...
Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: ALSO I SAY UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS ME BEFORE MEN ... See the n...
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....
ALSO I SAY UNTO YOU. — Again we note another like variation between St. Matthew’s “before My Father which is in Heaven,” and St. Luke’s “before the angels of God.”...
Another solemn declaration introduced by a λέγω δὲ = Matthew 10:32-33. ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀγγέλων τ. Θ.: in place of Mt.'s “before my Father in heaven”. In Luke 12:6 “God” takes the place of “your Father”...
_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...
(3) Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: (3) Great is the reward of a constant confession: and horrible is the p...
_Whosoever shall confess me. By these words we are informed, that more than bare inward protestations of fidelity will be demanded of us; for he moreover requires an exterior confession of our faith....
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...
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...
_The Recompense of faithful Disciples, contrasted with the Punishment of the Cowardly, and with that of Adversaries._ “ _Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son o...
(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...
_CONFESSING CHRIST_ ‘Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him shall the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God.’ Luke 12:8 We must not be ashamed to let all men see that we believe in 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...
ALSO I SAY UNTO YOU, c. The same as in Matthew 10:32 WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS ME BEFORE MEN, HIM SHALL THE SON OF MAN ALSO CONFESS BEFORE THE ANGELS OF GOD only instead of I, he here calls himself "th...
Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: Ver. 8. _Whosoever shall confess me_] Cyprian, reproving the rashness of th...
_Also I say unto you_ It will be necessary, however, in order that you may keep your minds unshaken, that you should often look forward unto the final judgment, at which I will own you as my servants,...
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...
Confessing Christ:...
ALSO I SAY UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS ME BEFORE MEN, HIM SHALL THE SON OF MAN ALSO CONFESS BEFORE THE ANGELS OF GOD;...
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...
Ver. 8,9. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 10:32", SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 10:33". Here is a fourth and fifth argument, drawn from the rewards and punishments of such as shall confess or deny Christ before men. Co...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV "But I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess in Me before men, the Son of man also shall confess before the angels of God; but whosoever shall deny Me before men...
Luke 12:8 Also G1161 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 whoever G3956 G3739 G302 confesses G3670 ...
“And I say to you, Every one who shall confess me before men, him will the Son of man also confess before the angels of God, but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence...
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...
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...
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...
EVERYONE WHO SHALL CONFESS ME (πας ος αν ομολογησε εν εμο). Just like Matthew 10:32 except the use of αν here which adds nothing. The Hebraistic use of εν after ομολογεω both here and in Matthew is...
SON OF MAN (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 8:20). _ ANGELS (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
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,...
_Whosoever shall confess Me before me_ THE JUDGMENT-SEAT OF CHRIST I. For FINGER-POSTS that may guide our endeavour to come at the spiritual reality here symbolized, such thoughts as these may serve...
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 John 2:23; 1 Samuel 2:30; 2 Timothy 2:12; Jude 1:24; Jude 1:25;...
Note here, 1. That not to confess Christ, is in his account to deny him, and to be ashamed of him. 2. That whosoever shall deny or be ashamed of Christ, either in his person, in his gospel, or in hi...