Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 13:15
Thou hypocrite — For the real motive of his speaking was envy, not (as he pretended) pure zeal for the glory of God.
Thou hypocrite — For the real motive of his speaking was envy, not (as he pretended) pure zeal for the glory of God.
THOU HYPOCRITE! - You condemn “me” for an action, and yet you perform one exactly similar. You condemn “me” for doing to a woman what you do to a beast. To her I have done good on the Sabbath; you pro...
CHAPTER 13 __ 1. The Necessity of Repentance. (Luke 13:1 .) 2. The Barren Fig Tree. (Luke 13:6) 3. The Healing of a Daughter of Abraham. (Luke 13:10) 4. Parable of the Mustard Seed. ...
A WOMAN HEALED ON THE SABBATH. (Lk. only; _cf. Luke 6:1_). Loisy is too fanciful in connecting this section with what precedes by suggesting that as the barren tree stands for unrepentant Israel so th...
Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath; and--look you--there was a woman there who had a spirit of weakness for eighteen years. She was bent together and could not straighten up pr...
SUFFERING AND SIN (Luke 13:1-5)...
HYPOCRITE. See note on Luke 11:44 NOT. Greek. _ou._ App-105. LOOSE. Compare note on Luke 13:12, and see the Structure. FROM. Greek. _apo._ App-104....
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...
_Thou hypocrite_ Rather (with the best uncials), Hypocrites! (א, A, B), classing the man with the whole sect to which he belonged, and whose shibboleths he used. They were hypocrites (i.e. they were...
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...
THE SABBATICAL HYPOCRITE AND THE SUFFERING WOMAN...
ὙΠΟΚΡΙΤΑΊ. The address is in the plural, not only to the ruler of the synagogue but to all his class. 15. ὙΠΟΚΡΙΤΑΊ. ‘Hypocrites!’ (אAB), classing the man with the whole sect to which he belonged, an...
Ver 10. And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lif...
_A WOMAN WAS FREED FROM AN INFIRMITY -- LUKE 13:10-17:_ Jesus went into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day. He saw a woman who "had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and coul...
ΆΠΕΚΡΊΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.), см._ Luke 13:2. ΎΠΟΚΡΙΤΑΊ _voc. pl._ от ΥΠΟΚΡΙΤΉΣ (G5273) лицемер, притворщик (TDNT; EDNT; TLNT). ΤΏ ΣΑΒΒΆΤΩ _dat. sing. от_ ΣΆΒΒΑΤΟΝ (G4521) суббота. _Dat._ времени...
DOTH NOT EACH ONE OF YOU— Our Lord soon put the hypocritical ruler to silence, by placing the action which he found fault with, in the light of their allowed practice. They loosed and led their cattle...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Repentance in Doctrine (Luke 13:10-17) 10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11And there was a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity for eight...
The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? THE LORD (SEE THE NOTE AT ) THE...
57-59 Compare Mat_5:25-26; Pro_25:8. 1 There is a strong natural tendency to connect calamity with sin. Hardly any great disaster occurs but someone seeks to justify it on the ground that the victims...
THE GALILEANS KILLED BY PILATE. THE UNFRUITFUL FIG TREE. LAMENT OVER JERUSALEM 1-9. Three exhortations to repentance, of which the former two are based on recent events, and the third is a parable. A...
THE WOMAN WITH A SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY (peculiar to Lk). The story is told not so much for the sake of the miracle, as for the light it throws upon the question of sabbath observance. It is the only cas...
LOOSE HIS OX] The rabbis, while permitting attention to beasts on the sabbath, did so grudgingly: 'It is not only permitted to lead a beast to the water on the sabbath, but also to draw water for it,...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 13 PEOPLE NEED TO TURN TO GOD 13:1-9 Two incidents and a *parable all teach that people need to turn to God. They must do this so that they avoid pun...
DOTH NOT EACH ONE OF YOU ...? — The principle is the same as that in Matthew 12:11 (where see Note), but the case is put in even a stronger form. There the illustration is drawn from what might seem a...
ὑποκριταί : plural less personal than the singular (T.R.), yet severe enough, though directed against the class. The case put was doubtless according to the prevailing custom, and so stated as to make...
_Cure in a synagogue on a Sabbath day_, peculiar to Lk....
GOOD WORK FOR THE SABBATH Luke 13:10-17 There was in this woman a noble principle which led her to persevere in attending God's house, although there was much to discourage her. Probably she was anim...
Someone brought to our Lord an account of a happening which seemed to suggest that those who suffered catastrophe are proved to be "sinners above all." He directly contradicted that view, and in that...
THE RHEUMATISM OF EIGHTEEN YEARS HEALED Luke 13:10-17. “ _And He was teaching in one of their synagogues on the Sabbath. Behold_, _a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years_, _and was bent o...
11. _The Progress of the Kingdom: Luke 13:10-21_. During this journey, as throughout His whole ministry, Jesus did not fail to frequent the synagogues on the Sabbath days. The present narrative introd...
And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself...
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...
15._Doth not every one of you? etc _Such a combination of malice and stupidity might easily have been exposed in many ways, but Christ satisfied himself with this single argument. If it be lawful _on...
Now, at this moment they reminded Him of a terrible judgment that had fallen upon some among them. He declares to them that neither this case, nor another which He recalls to their minds, is exception...
THE LORD THEN ANSWERED HIM AND SAID,.... Though he did not direct his speech to him, he knew that he struck at him, and suggested that he was a violator of the sabbath, as well as the people: and ther...
The Lord then answered him, and said, _Thou_ hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or _his_ ass from the stall, and lead _him_ away to watering? Ver. 15. _Thou hypocrite_] T...
_And the ruler of the synagogue_ Instead of joining in acknowledgments of the divine power and goodness, displayed in this gracious action of our Lord; _answered_ The woman's praises, _with indignatio...
HYPOCRITE; he condemned Jesus for relieving on the Sabbath an infirm woman, who had suffered for eighteen years, when he would himself perform more labor for the relief of an animal from thirst for a...
Christ's defense against the ruler of the synagogue:...
THE LORD THEN ANSWERED HIM AND SAID, THOU HYPOCRITE, DOTH NOT EACH ONE OF YOU ON THE SABBATH LOOSE HIS OX OR HIS ASS FROM THE STALL, AND LEAD HIM AWAY TO WATERING?...
REPENT OR PERISH (vs.1-9) This chapter shows that righteousness by itself provides no hope for man, but presses upon us the solemn lesson of repentance. Thus it prepares the way for Chapter s 14 and...
10-17 Our Lord Jesus attended upon public worship on the sabbaths. Even bodily infirmities, unless very grievous, should not keep us from public worship on sabbath days. This woman came to Christ to...
Ver. 15,16. Our Saviour here calleth this ruler of the synagogue HYPOCRITE, for his impudence in so severe a reflection on him for doing on the sabbath day a work of that nature which he himself did,...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV doth not each one of you on the Sabbath-days loose his ox or his ass, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Sata...
Luke 13:15 Lord G2962 then G3767 answered G611 (G5662) him G846 and G2532 said G2036 (G5627) Hypocrite...
THE WOMAN WHO WAS MADE STRAIGHT AND DELIVERED FROM SATAN (13:10-17). This story is central to this section of Luke, as is demonstrated by the chiasmus. We may ignore such literary methods, but we can...
‘But the Lord answered him, and said, “You hypocrites, does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?” ' Jesus answer was not to the rul...
Luke 13:15. THE LORD. Perhaps with emphasis; as He had previously proclaimed Himself, ‘Lord even of the Sabbath' (chap. Luke 6:5). YE HYPOCRITES. Luke 13:17 shows that other antagonists were present....
TIME. It is generally agreed that this incident belongs to the later period of our Lord's ministry, about the time of His visit to Perea (Matthew 19:1-2; Mark 10:1). The reasons for this are (1.) that...
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...
THE LORD ANSWERED HIM (απεκριθη δε αυτω ο Κυριος). Note use of "the Lord" of Jesus again in Luke's narrative. Jesus answered the ruler of the synagogue who had spoken to the crowd, but about Jesus....
Luke 13:10 The Impotent Woman. I. This impotent woman may fairly be taken as a type of character to which we, or many of us, answer; and answer much more closely than, for example, to that of the pro...
Luke 13:11. _And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him,...
Luke 13:10. _And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath, And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise li...
Luke 13:10. And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lif...
Luke 13:6. _He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none._ It was a fig tree, a fruit-bearing tree by profess...
CONTENTS: Parable of barren fig tree. Woman loosed from her infirmity. Parable of mustard seed and leaven. Jesus teaching on way to Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Galileans, Pilate, infirm woman, rule...
Luke 13:1. _There were some present at that season_ of the passover, _that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their_ _sacrifices._ Though this might be blood for blood, yet...
A WOMAN WAS THERE. Only Luke tells this healing of the Crippled Woman. A similar healing on the Sabbath is given in Matthew 12:10-13; Mark 3:1-5. THAT HAD KEPT HER SICK FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS. A demon was...
_A woman, which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen yearn--_ TWO PULPITS I. Observe one thing at the outset: HOW MANY ANONYMOUS BELIEVERS THERE ARE IN THE BIBLE RECORD WHO GIVE HELP ALL ALONG THE AGES...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 13:15 YOU HYPOCRITES. Compare Luke 6:42; Luke 12:56....
CHAPTER 13 VER. 1. _Whose blood Pilate mingled._ That is, whom while they were sacrificing in Mount Gerizim in Samaria, Pilate slew. He slew them that their blood might be mingled with the blood of th...
_The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite._ Hypocrites who feign sanctity abroad, when within they are full of envy and malice. S. Chrysostom in the _Catena_ : "Christ rightly called him a...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 13:10. IN ONE OF THE SYNAGOGUES.—Time and place are indefinite; probably in Peræa. Luke 13:11 A SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY.—(Cf. Acts 16:6, “a spirit of Python”). _I.e._, an evil spiri...
EXPOSITION LUKE 13:1 _Signs of the times. The Lord continues his solemn warnings. Israel pictured in the parable of the barren fig tree._ LUKE 13:1 There were present at that season some that told...
Now there were present at that season (Luke 13:1) And, of course, now Luke may have gone on in a period of time. We don't know how much time elapsed between verse Luke 13:59 of chapter 12, and Luke 13...
Acts 13:10; Acts 13:9; Acts 8:20; Isaiah 29:20; Job 34:30;...
Loose [λ υ ε ι]. Compare thou art loosed, ver. 12. Stall. See on ch. Luke 2:7....