Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 14:2
There was a certain man before him — It does not appear that he was come thither with any insidious design. Probably he came, hoping for a cure, or perhaps was one of the family.
There was a certain man before him — It does not appear that he was come thither with any insidious design. Probably he came, hoping for a cure, or perhaps was one of the family.
Verse Luke 14:2. _THE DROPSY._] υδρωπικος, _dropsical_; from υδωπ, water, and ωψ, the countenance, because in this disorder the _face_ of the patient is often very much bloated. Probably the insidiou...
A CERTAIN MAN BEFORE HIM - In what way he came there we know not. He might have been one of the Pharisee’s family, or might have been placed there by the Pharisees to see whether he would heal him. Th...
CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The Man with the Dropsy Healed on the Sabbath. (Luke 14:1)_ 2. The Wisdom of Humility. (Luke 14:7) 3. Recompensed in Resurrection. (Luke 14:12) 4. The Parable of the Great Supper. ...
A SABBATH WITH A PHARISEE. A companion picture to Luke 13:10. When in Luke 6:6 Lk. relates the cure of the man with a withered hand (Mark 3:1; Matthew 12:9) he
On the Sabbath day Jesus had gone into the house of one of the rulers who belonged to the Pharisees to eat bread; and they were watching him. And--look you-- there was a man before him who had dropsy....
UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF HOSTILE MEN (Luke 14:1-6)...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. MAN (App-123.1)... which had the dropsy. dropsical (a medical term). Occurs only here. BEFORE HIM. Not one of the guests....
_And behold_, _there was a certain man before him_, _which had the dropsy_ The verse represents with inimitable vividness the flash of recognition with which the Lord at once grasped the whole meaning...
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...
ΚΑῚ ἸΔΟῪ ἌΝΘΡΩΠΌΣ ΤΙΣ ἮΝ ὙΔΡΩΠΙΚῸΣ ἜΜΠΡΟΣΘΕΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂. The verse represents with inimitable vividness the flash of recognition with which the Lord at once grasped the whole meaning of the scene. The dr...
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...
SABBATH HEALING OF A MAN WITH THE DROPSY...
Ver 1. And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. 2. And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had...
_HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH -- LUKE 14:1-6:_ Jesus accepted an invitation from a leader of the Pharisees to have a meal at his house. The meal was on the Sabbath day. Jesus came under careful scr...
ΙΔΟΎ (G2400) _aor. imper. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, смотреть. Используется как частица: "глядите" "вот" ΎΔΡΩΠΙΚΌΣ (G5203) страдающий водянкой. Медицинский термин, обозначающий больного этой болезнью,...
THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN BEFORE HIM— He was either set before him by way of a snare, or had conveyed himself thither in hopes of a cure, which is the most probable; for it appears from Luke 14:4 that h...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Good (Luke 14:1-6) 14One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him.2 And behold, there was a man before h...
And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. AND, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN BEFORE HIM WHICH HAD THE DROPSY - not one of the invited guests probably, but one who pres...
25 Compare Mat_25:10-12. 27 Compare 2Ti_2:19. 29 Eastern etiquette is most stringent as to the placing of guests at a banquet. The most honorable must have the first place and the least the last. So...
THE DROPSICAL MAN. THE GREAT SUPPER. DIVERS SAYINGS AND PARABLES 1-6. The sabbath question again. The man with the dropsy healed (peculiar to Lk)....
THERE WAS.. BEFORE HIM] Spectators often enter the house to witness an Eastern banquet....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 JESUS *HEALS A MAN ON THE *SABBATH 14:1-6 V1 One *Sabbath, Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the more important *Pharisees. They were watch...
A CERTAIN MAN BEFORE HIM WHICH HAD THE DROPSY. — This is the only miracle of the kind recorded in the Gospels. The term which St. Luke uses is strictly technical (_hydropikos_)_,_ and we may fairly se...
ὑδρωπικὸς (ὕδρωψ): here only in N.T., a solitary instance of this disease among the healing acts of Jesus. No conceivable reason for its being mentioned except that it was a fact. ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ, bef...
Luke 14:1-24 contain a digest of sayings of Jesus at the table of a Pharisee, this being the third instance in this Gospel of such friendly intercourse between Him and members of the Pharisaic party....
_The dropsical man healed, with relative conversation_, in Lk. only (_cf._ Matthew 12:9-14)....
THE LAMENT FOR THOSE WHO “WOULD NOT” Luke 13:31-35; Luke 14:1-6 Our Lord was at that time in Perea, in the jurisdiction of Herod, who probably desired to get rid of Him, lest His presence should intr...
Nothing escaped the notice of Jesus. He saw the guests in the house, and their method of procedure in seeking the chief seats. As He watched, He enunciated two great truths of social application. Firs...
Our divine Saviour, regardless of the wicked designs which these Pharisees meditated to destroy him, cures the sick man, who did not dare to ask the favour of him, for fear of the Pharisees. He could...
CHAPTER 11 THE DROPSICAL MAN HEALED Luke 14:1-6. “ _And it came to pass that He entered into the house of a certain one of the rulers of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread_, _and they were wat...
1 _st. Luke 14:1-6_. To accept an invitation to the house of a Pharisee, after the previous scenes, was to do an act at once of courage and kindness. The host was one of the _chief_ of his sect. There...
3. _Jesus at a Feast: Luke 14:1-24_. The following piece allows us to follow Jesus in His domestic life and familiar conversations. It is connected with the preceding by the fact that it is with a Pha...
And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the drops...
Some moral details are unfolded in the next chapter (14). [37] The Lord, being invited to eat with a Pharisee, vindicates the rights of grace over that which was the seal of the old covenant, judging...
AND BEHOLD, THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN BEFORE HIM,.... Who sat just before him, as he was at table; who either came there of himself, in order to receive a cure; or rather, since it was in a private hous...
And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. Ver. 2. _A certain man before him_] A fit object, and that was sufficient to move him to mercy, who himself, by sympathy, took ou...
_And it came to pass_ About this time, probably just as our Lord was finishing his journey through Herod's dominions; _he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees_ Τινος των αρχοντων Φαρισαιω...
CHRIST THE GUEST OF A PHARISEE. Luke 14:1 Healing a man afflicted with dropsy on the Sabbath:...
AND, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN BEFORE HIM WHICH HAD THE DROPSY....
EATING IN THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE (vs.1-14) This chapter shows the heart of God in seeking man, yet also man in thorough contrast and opposition to God. One of the chief Pharisees invited the Lord Jesu...
1-6 This Pharisee, as well as others, seems to have had an ill design in entertaining Jesus at his house. But our Lord would not be hindered from healing a man, though he knew a clamour would be raise...
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Luke 14:2 And G2532 behold G2400 (G5628) was G2258 (G5713) certain G5100 man G444 before G1715 Him...
‘And behold, there was before him a certain man that had the dropsy.' There before Him Jesus saw a plain case of a man with the dropsy. This was a horrible disease in which water under the skin made t...
A SABBATH MEAL AT A PHARISEE'S HOUSE; THE HEALING OF A MAN WITH DROPSY (14:1-6). It is unusual in Luke for us to be given the full details of the setting, yet in this passage Jesus is invited into the...
Luke 14:2. A CERTAIN MAN WHO HAD THE DROPSY Evidently this incident took place before the meal (Luke 14:7). The man was not a guest (Luke 14:4), and was possibly placed there by the Pharisees, with a...
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...
This section, peculiar to Luke, has been aptly styled ‘the Son of man eating and drinking.' All the incidents occurred at a feast Luke 14:1; Luke 14:7). The parable of the Great Supper Luke 14:16-24)...
WHICH HAD THE DROPSY (υδρωπικος). Late and medical word from υδωρ (water), one who has internal water (υδρωπς). Here only in the N.T. and only example of the disease healed by Jesus and recorded....
14:1-6. And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had t...
CONTENTS: Jesus heals on the Sabbath. Parable of the ambitious guest. Parable of the great supper. Parable of the tower, of the king going to war, and of the savorless salt. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharis...
Luke 14:3. _Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day._ When customs are good, let us keep them; but when they are burthensome and inconsistent, the Saviour refused submission to the traditions of men....
A MAN WHOSE LEGS AND ARMS WERE SWOLLEN. Jesus knows they are watching to see if he will heal this man on the Sabbath. DOES OUR LAW ALLOW? The Law of Moses did allow it, but their Tradition said it was...
_He went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees_ THE GOSPEL FOR THE SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY I. WE HERE BEHOLD OUR SAVIOUR IN THE SOCIAL CIRCLE. Jesus was not a recluse. He had a kind...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 14:2 DROPSY. Probably excess bodily fluid. ⇐ ⇔...
CHAPTER 14 VER. 1. _And it came to pass that He went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees_. "To do them service," says Titus, "Christ makes Himself their friend, and, as it were, one of their...
_And behold there was a certain man before Him which had the dropsy._ This man seems to have been a friend of the Pharisee, who perhaps had invited Jesus in order that He might heal him. Certainly, as...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 14:1. ONE OF THE CHIEF PHARISEES.—Rather, “one of the rulers of the Pharisees” (R.V.). The phrase is a peculiar one, since the Pharisees, as such, had no rulers; it may refer to...
EXPOSITION LUKE 14:1 _The Pharisee_'_s feast on a sabbath day. The healing of the sick with dropsy._ LUKE 14:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF ONE OF THE CHIEF PHARISEES TO EAT B...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the gospel according to Luke, chapter 14. The fourteenth chapter involves an invitation for Jesus to come to a supper on the Sabbath day and of the things that trans...
Which had the dropsy [υ δ ρ ω π ι κ ο ς]. Lit., a dropsical man. The usual way of marking a dropsical patient in medical language....