Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 16:16
The law and the prophets were in force until John: from that time the Gospel takes place; and humble upright men receive it with inexpressible earnestness. Matthew 11:13.
The law and the prophets were in force until John: from that time the Gospel takes place; and humble upright men receive it with inexpressible earnestness. Matthew 11:13.
Verse Luke 16:16. _THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS_ WERE _UNTIL JOHN_] The law and the prophets continued to be the sole _teachers_ till John came, who _first_ began to proclaim the _glad tidings_ of the _k...
See the notes at Matthew 11:12. EVERY MAN - Many people, or multitudes. This is an expression that is very common, as when we say everybody is engaged in a piece of business, meaning that it occupies...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The Unjust Steward. (Luke 16:1)_ 2. The Impossible Service. (Luke 16:13) 3. The Deriding Pharisees Answered. (Luke 16:14) 4. Concerning Divorce. ...
WORDS TO PHARISEES. Luke 16:14 f. Lk. only. The verses seem introduced by Lk. to indicate that the preceding and succeeding parables were directed against Pharisees. They also illustrate his antipathy...
A BAD MAN'S GOOD EXAMPLE (Luke 16:1-13)...
When the Pharisees, who were characteristically fond of money, heard these things, they derided Jesus. So he said to them, "You are those who make yourselves look righteous before men, but God knows y...
THE LAW. See note on Matthew 5:17. SINCE THAT TIME. since (Greek. _apo._ App-104.) then. THE KINGDOM OF GOD. See App-114. PREACHED. Greek. _euangelizo._ See App-121. EVERY MAN. Greek. _pas,_ all....
_The law and the prophets were until John_ This is one of our Lord's clearest intimations that the aeon of the Law and the Prophets was now merging into a new dispensation, since they were only "a sha...
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...
ΜΈΧΡΙ ἸΩΆΝΝΟΥ. This is one of our Lord’s clearest intimations that the aeon of the Law and the Prophets was now merging into a new dispensation, since they were only “a shadow of things to come,” Colo...
DIVES AND LAZARUS: A PARABLE TO THE COVETOUS, PRECEDED BY REBUKES TO THE PHARISEES...
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 14. And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15. And he said to them, you are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: f...
_THE PHARISEES RIDICULED JESUS -- LUKE 16:14-18:_ The Pharisees who had been listening to Jesus professed to trust God. Sadly, these Pharisees really loved money. When they heard the things that Jesus...
ΕΎΑΓΓΕΛΊΖΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΎΑΓΓΕΛΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G2097) провозглашать или объявлять как благую весть (TLNT). ΒΙΆΖΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. от_ ΒΙΆΖΟΜΑΙ (G971) использовать силу, принуждать. Инт...
DISCOURSE: 1548 PRESSING INTO THE KINGDOM Luke 16:16. _The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it_. WHEREVER the Gospel i...
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN:— Our Lord having in the preceding verse developed the specious and hypocritical pretences of the Pharisees, observes to them, with respect to his own conduct,...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Parable of the Unrighteous Steward Scripture_ Luke 16:1-18 And he said unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Be Sanctified (Luke 16:14-18) 14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they scoffed at him. 15But he said to them, You are those who justify yours...
The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN: SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GO...
16:16 way (a-27) See Matthew 11:12 ....
THE UNJUST STEWARD. THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS 1-13. Parable of the Unjust Steward (peculiar to Lk). The details of this somewhat difficult parable are probably not significant. It is intended to illust...
THE PHARISEES MOCK JESUS. HIS REPLY. The connexion of Luke 16:16; Luke 16:18 is difficult, and it may be that they do not properly belong here, but it is also possible that our Lord's discourse is abr...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 16 THE *PARABLE OF THE UNJUST MANAGER 16:1-8 V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘A rich man had a servant who managed his property. The rich man heard...
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN. — See Notes on Matthew 11:14. What had then been said to the disciples of the Baptist is now reproduced to our Lord’s own disciples and to the Pharisees. The...
= Matthew 11:12-13, inverted, introduced here in view of Luke 16:31....
Luke 16:14-18 form a “somewhat heavily built bridge” (H. C.) between the two parables, which set forth the right and the wrong use of riches....
A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE Luke 16:14-31 Here was a flagrant case of heartless indifference, amid luxuries of every kind, to the daily spectacle of abject need. Most of us have at least one Lazarus at t...
The Master had a lesson to teach His disciples on the subject of earthly wealth, and He made use of this unjust steward for purposes of illustration only. The element in the action of the steward whic...
(5) The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. (5) The Pharisees despised the excellency of the new covenant with resp...
The law and the prophets, &c. Not that the law was made void by the coming of John [the Baptist], but that what the law and the prophets had taught, had been suited to the very imperfect dispositions...
THE KINGDOM OF GOD Luke 16:16-18. _“The law and the prophets were till John; since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every one passeth into it.”_ These Pharisees hung on His track like lig...
This piece contains: 1 _st._ The parable of the unjust steward, with accompanying reflections (Luke 16:1-13); 2 _d._ Reflections forming an introduction to the parable of the wicked rich man, and the...
2 _d. Luke 16:14-31_. _The Wicked Rich Man._ The introduction (Luke 16:14-18) is composed of a series of sayings which at first sight appear to have no connection with one another. Holtzmann thinks th...
“ _The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it._ 17. _But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than for one tittle of...
(16) The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. (17) And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than one tittle...
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 16:16._The Law and the Prophets were till John _Our Lord had said that the earnestness of the people was a prelude to those things which _the Prophets _had foretold as to the future renovation of...
In chapter 16, the effect of grace on conduct is presented, and the contrast that exists (the dispensation being changed) between the conduct that Christianity requires with regard to the things of th...
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN,.... Till the time that John the Baptist began his ministry; for till then, the law and the prophets, with the Hagiographa, or holy writings, for into these th...
The law and the prophets _were_ until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. Ver. 16. See Matthew 11:11 ....
Luke 16:16. "The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it." Here I would observe, that when universal terms are used about r...
_The law and the prophets were_ in force _until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached_ The gospel dispensation takes place, and humble, upright men, receive it with inexpressible earnes...
WERE UNTIL JOHN; see notes on Matthew 11:12-13. EVERY MAN; the Saviour alludes to the fact that the despised publicans and sinners are pressing into the kingdom of heaven, while the proud Pharisees r...
A lesson concerning covetousness....
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN; SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND EVERY MAN PRESSETH INTO IT....
A PARABLE AS TO THE USE OF THE MASTER'S GOODS (vs.1-13) Now the Lord turned to address His disciples. For though it is pure grace that saves and finds deep delight in the repentance of a sinner, yet...
13-18 To this parable our Lord added a solemn warning. Ye cannot serve God and the world, so divided are the two interests. When our Lord spoke thus, the covetous Pharisees treated his instructions w...
We had the sum of these words: SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 11:12" and SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 11:13". The connection of these words in this place seems to be this: Do not think it strange that I preach some d...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Since, then, the law originated with Moses, it terminated with John as a necessary consequence. Christ had come to fulfil it: wherefore "the law and the prophets wer...
Luke 16:16 law G3551 and G2532 prophets G4396 until G2193 John G2491 Since G575 time G5119 kingdom G932 God...
“The law and the prophets were until John, from that time the Good News of the Kingly Rule of God is preached, and every man enters violently into it (or ‘every man is overpowered by it').” Their next...
JESUS REPLIES TO THE MOCKERY OF THE PHARISEES DIRECTED AT HIS IDEAS ABOUT WEALTH (16:14-18). The Pharisees had been listening in to his advice to His disciples and they derided Him. For in their eyes...
Luke 16:16-17. These verses may be thus paraphrased : ‘I have said that you are not justified in the sight of God, but are an abomination; and the standard of this judgment is one that you acknowledge...
The response of the Pharisees (Luke 16:14) called forth another parable, in which another phase, of the same great truth is brought out, namely, that _neglect_ of the proper application of wealth beco...
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...
ENTERETH VIOLENTLY INTO IT (εις αυτην βιαζετα). A corresponding saying occurs in Matthew 11:12 in a very different context. In both the verb βιαζετα, occurs also, but nowhere else in the N.T. It is...
THE KINGDOM (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 11:12). _...
CONTENTS: Parable of the unjust steward. Jesus answers Pharisees. Rich man and Lazarus in the spirit world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, John the Baptist, rich man, Lazarus, Abraham, five broth...
Luke 16:1. _A certain rich man had a steward accused that he had wasted his goods._ After the parable of the prodigal son, we have a second, of a prodigal steward, who had wasted his lord's property....
THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE WRITINGS. See notes on Matthew 11:12-13....
_The Pharisees also, who were covetous_ LOVERS OF MONEY Those “lovers of money” heard what things? As rulers of the people they heard the parable of the “unjust steward,” and their own doom as men...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 16:16 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. The OT. UNTIL JOHN. The ministry of John the Baptist concluded a long history of OT prophecy that promised the coming of the messianic kingdom. Everyo...
CHAPTER 16 VER. 1. _And He said also unto His disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods._ Having rebuked in three par...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 16:14. In this section, the connection of which with the preceding and following parables is not at first sight apparent, we have evidently the heads of a discourse addressed to...
EXPOSITION LUKE 16:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the right use of earthly possessions with regard to the prospect of another world, in the form of the two parables of the unjust steward, and Dives and...
Jesus speaks on two unpleasant subjects, to a lot of people. Not unpleasant to me, but to a lot of people. Talks about hell. That's not unpleasant to me, not worried about it at all. Now Jesus is at a...
Acts 3:18; Acts 3:24; Acts 3:25; John 1:45; John 11:48;...
Presseth. Rev., entereth violently. See on Matthew 11:12. Wyc., maketh violence into it. Tynd., striveth to go in....
Our Saviour in these words gives the Pharisees to understand that their contempt of his person and doctrine was the more inexcusable, because they lived in and under the clearest light of the gospel:...