54. There are many variations and glosses in this verse owing to its peculiarity.
The words καὶ ζητοῦντες are omitted in אBL, and also ἵνα κατηγορήσωσιν αὐτοῦ.
54. θηρεῦσαι. Literally, ‘to hunt.’ They were members of a sort of ‘commission of inquiry’ which had been sent from Jerusalem for this express purpose, Mark 12:13. They occupied the base position of inquisitors and heresy-hunters for the theologians and priests at Jerusalem.
LAYING WAIT FOR HIM - Or, rather, laying “snares” for him It means that they endeavored to entangle him in his talk; that they did as men do who catch birds - who lay snares, and deceive them, and tak...
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Prayer Given to the Disciples (Luke 11:1 .)_ 2. The Friend at Midnight. (Luke 11:5) 3. Encouragement to Pray. (Luke 11:11) 4. A Demon Cast Out and the Blasphemous Accusation. ...
CONDEMNATION OF PHARISEES AND SCRIBES._ Cf._ (though the arrangement is different) Matthew 23*, where the Jerusalem setting is more suitable (perhaps Lk. wishes to make the Jerusalem discourses end wi...
A scribe answered, "Teacher, when you talk like that you are insulting us." Jesus said, "Woe to you scribes too! because you bind burdens upon men that are hard to bear and you yourselves do not lay a...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
LAYING WAIT FOR. watching. Only here and Acts 23:21. CATCH. Both are hunting expressions. OUT OF. Greek _ek._ App-104. Not the same word as in Luke 11:24. THAT, &c.. [Tr.] WH. omit....
_to catch_ Literally, "_to hunt."_They were members of a body of a sort of -commission of enquiry" which had been sent from Jerusalem for this express purpose, Mark 12:13....
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...
Ver 45. Then answered one of the Lawyers, and said to him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also. 46. And he said, Woe to you also, you Lawyers! for you lade men with burdens grievous to be borne,...
_JESUS REBUKED THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES -- LUKE 11:37-54:_ Jesus condemned the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses. As Jesus ate with a Pharisee he was shocked that Jesus did not keep thei...
ΈΝΕΔΡΕΎΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part._ (сопутств.) от ΕΝΕΔΡΕΎΩ (G1748) готовить ловушку, лежать в засаде, ΘΗΡΕΎΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΘΗΡΕΎΩ (G2340) преследовать, ловить, охотиться (RWP). _Inf._ цели. Их...
BEGAN TO URGE HIM VEHEMENTLY, &C.— Δεινως ενεχειν, which properly signifies _to fasten fiercely upon him._ Several more of the words here used are metaphors taken from hunting: the word αποστοματιζειν...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Pharisaism (Luke 11:37-54) 37 While he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in and sat at table. 38The Pharisee was astonished to see, that he...
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. LAYING WAIT FOR HIM, AND SEEKING TO CATCH SOMETHING OUT OF HIS MOUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT ACCUSE HIM. H...
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 LORD'S PRAYER. THE SIGN OF JONAH 1-4. The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9). See on Mt. If the Lord's Prayer was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion. His version, however (as...
CHRIST IS ENTERTAINED BY A PHARISEE. HE DENOUNCES PHARISAIC FORMALISM AND HYPOCRISY. For the relation of this discourse to Matthew 23:1, see on Matthew 23:1....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT PRAYER 11:1-13 1 THE PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT 11:1-4 V1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of...
LAYING WAIT FOR HIM. — The better MSS. give the verse in a somewhat simpler form, _laying wait to catch something out of His mouth._ The words throw light on the subsequent question about paying tribu...
_In the house of a Pharisee; criticism of the religion of Pharisees and scribes_ (Matthew 23). This section contains a selection of the hard sayings of Jesus on the “righteousness of the scribes and P...
really gives the key to the meaning of ἀποστοματίζειν (here only in N.T.)....
SEARCHING WORDS FOR HYPOCRITES Luke 11:45-54 The minute oral and written rules promulgated by the Hebrew religious leaders overlaid and almost buried under their weight the simple Mosaic code. They w...
Watching the Master at prayer, His disciples were inspired with a desire to pray, and requested that they be taught. He responded to them in a fourfold statement. First, He gave them a model. Then He...
WOES PRONOUNCED ON THE PHARISEES & THEOLOGIANS Luke 11:42-54. _“But woe unto you Pharisees, because you tithe mint, anise, and every herb, and you pass by judgment and the love of God; it behooveth yo...
2 _d. To the Scribes: Luke 11:45-54_. A remark made by a scribe gives a new turn to the conversation. The Pharisees were only a religious party; but the scribes, the experts in the law, formed a profe...
VERS. 53 AND 54: _Historical Conclusion._ These verses describe a scene of violence, perhaps unique, in the life of Jesus. Numerous variations prove the very early alteration of the text. According to...
(53) And, as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things; (54) Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch some...
REFLECTIONS Dearest Lord Jesus! I would say for myself, and all thy redeemed family, teach us to pray, and with what words to come before the Lord, in all our soul exercises, and wants, and conflicts,...
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...
_THE NEW LIBERTY_ ‘Seeking to catch something out of His mouth, that they might accuse Him.’ Luke 11:54 No intelligent observer could fail to notice the opposition towards Jesus Christ in certain q...
The prayer which He taught His disciples (chapter 11) has respect also to the position into which they came before the gift of the Holy Ghost. [32] Jesus Himself prayed, as the dependent man on earth....
LAYING WAIT FOR HIM,.... To ensnare and entangle him, watching his words, observing what he said, and laying hold thereon: AND SEEKING TO CATCH SOMETHING OUT OF HIS MOUTH; like beasts of prey, or hun...
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. Ver. 54. _Seeking to catch something_] But there was no guile or gall found in his mouth, saith St Pe...
_As he said these things, the scribes and Pharisees began to urge him_ The freedom which Jesus now took with the Pharisee and his guests, provoked them exceedingly, for they were guilty of the crimes...
LAYING WAIT FOR HIM, AND SEEKING TO CATCH SOMETHING OUT OF HIS MOUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT ACCUSE HIM. Jesus here revealed to the lawyers the counsel of God; for He Himself, the personal Wisdom, was the re...
The last woe and its effect:...
VALUABLE INSTRUCTION AS TO PRAYER (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended in Mary). His...
37-54 We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God ha...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 11:53...
Luke 11:54 for G1748 (G5723) Him G846 and G2532 seeking G2212 (G5723) catch G2340 (G5658) something...
‘And when he was come out from there, the Scribes and the Pharisees began to press on him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things, laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mou...
Luke 11:54. LAYING WAIT FOR HIM TO CATCH SOMETHING OUT OF HIS MONTH. This is the form of the verse. The figure is borrowed from hunting. It was not only that they waited for something to suit their pu...
THIS discourse closely resembles the great denunciation of the Pharisees (Matthew 23); but the circumstances of the two are entirely different; the one was uttered just before our Lord departed solemn...
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...
LAYING WAIT FOR HIM (ενεδρευοντες αυτον). An old verb from εν and εδρα, a seat, so to lie in ambush for one. Here only and Acts 23:21 in the N.T. Vivid picture of the anger of these rabbis who were...
Luke 11:14. _And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils thr...
CONTENTS: Jesus' doctrine of prayer. Jesus charged with casting out demons by Beelzebub, and His answer. Woes denounced upon the Pharisees and lawyers. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Jonah, Sol...
Luke 11:1. _Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples._ The disciples of John were eminent for fasting and prayer; and though the prayers of the jews were good, yet they were not exact...
TRYING TO LAY TRAPS FOR HIM. Compare _Matthew 22; John 8:10,_ for details of how they tried to trap Jesus....
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:52 The lawyers’ interpretations of Scripture deprive the people (and themselves) of the KEY OF KNOWLEDGE needed to understand God’s plan of salvation....
CHAPTER 11 VER. 2. _When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name_. S. Matthew adds this prayer to the sermon on the mount, whilst S. Luke places it at a later period. Either...
_Laying wait for Him, and seeking to catch something out of His mouth_. _θηζευ̃σαί_, "to hunt for," that they might accuse Him to Caiaphas or Pilate. For Euthymius says, "They thought by their rapid q...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 11:37. BESOUGHT.—Simply, “asked” (R.V.). TO DINE.—Rather, “that He would _breakfast_ with him.” The word used means a noon-day meal = our late breakfast or luncheon. Luke 11:38....
EXPOSITION LUKE 11:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the_ _subject of prayer. _Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of _time _or _place _enables us to fix the scene or date with any...
Tonight, chapter 11 in the gospel according to Luke. Again, as Luke is pointing out the human side of Jesus, though He was God, He became man. He is the God-man. He is divine, and yet, He is human. Th...
Mark 12:13; Matthew 22:15; Matthew 22:18; Matthew 22:35; Psalms 37:32
Lying in wait - to catch [ε ν ε δ ρ ε υ ο ν τ ε ς θ η ρ ε υ σ α ι]. Metaphors from hunting....