Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Luke 12:23
The life is more than meat, &c. and the spirit is more than either the body, or the natural life.
The life is more than meat, &c. and the spirit is more than either the body, or the natural life.
See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 6:25....
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. ...
WARNING AGAINST WORRY (Matthew 6:25 *, Matthew 6:19 *). In Mt. the section follows the saying about God and Mammon, with which the parable just given by Lk. has an analogy. Lk. and Mt. agree closely,...
THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
One of the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." He said to him, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbitrator over you?" He said to them, "Watch and gua...
THE. [L]. Tr.. WH. read "For the", &c. MEAT. food. Compare Matthew 6:25....
Ἡ ΨΥΧῊ ΠΛΕΙ͂ΌΝ ἘΣΤΙΝ ΤΗ͂Σ ΤΡΟΦΗ͂Σ.… And the spirit is more than either the body, or the natural life....
LESSONS OF TRUSTFULNESS (22–32), ALMSGIVING (33, 34), AND FAITHFUL WATCHFULNESS (35–48). THE SEARCHING EFFECT OF CHRIST’S WORK (49–53)...
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 22. AND HE SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU, TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR YOUR LIFE, WHAT YOU SHALL EAT: NEITHER FOR THE BODY, WHAT YOU SHALL PUT ON. 23. THE LIFE IS MORE THAN MEAT, AND THE BO...
ΠΛΕΪ́ΟΝ _сотр. от_ ΠΟΛΎΣ ut4498) многий; _сотр._ больше, ΤΡΟΦΉΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΤΡΟΦΉ (G5160) питание, еда, пища. _Gen._ сравнения ΕΝΔΎΜΑΤΟΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΈΝΔΥΜΑ (G1742) одежда. _Gen._ сравнения....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Astuteness in Alertness (Luke 12:13-34) 13 One of the multitude said to him, Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me. 14But he said to him, Man, who made m...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _How to be Rich Toward God Scripture_ Luke 12:22-34 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for _your_ life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your...
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. AND HE SAID UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, THEREFORE I S...
14 See Exo_2:14. 15 Compare 1Ti_6:6-10. 15 A telling truth which would do more to ameliorate the ills of humanity than all government, were it heeded, is embodied in the phrase, "the superfluity of...
12:23 life (a-2) 'Life' and 'soul' are the same in Greek, but not in ver. 15....
AGAINST ANXIETY ABOUT WEALTH AND WORLDLY THINGS. Almost the whole of this section occurs in St. Matthew's Sermon on the Mount. The present context, however, is very suitable, and is perhaps correct....
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...
ψυχὴ and σῶμα are to be taken in the physical sense, the suggestion being that God has given us these the _greater_ things, and therefore may be expected to give us _food_ for the one and _raiment_ fo...
_Dissuasives against earthly care_ (Matthew 6:25-33). The disciples again become the audience....
THE CURE FOR ANXIOUS CARE Luke 12:22-34 Notice this contrast between two kinds of men: the one cares for himself, is anxious for this life, worries about food and clothes and standing a cubit higher...
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...
SOLICITUDE Luke 12:22-31. This item of our Savior's discourse is so identical with a paragraph in His Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6), that I forbear quotation, the substantial repetition of the Great...
Disengagement as resulting from confidence in the omnipotence and fatherly goodness of God. “ _And He said unto His disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall ea...
3 _d. To the Disciples: Luke 12:22-40_. Disengagement from earthly goods. The following exhortations suppose faith. The believer should renounce the pursuit of earthly goods: 1. From a feeling of enti...
(22) And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. (23) The life is more than meat, and the bo...
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...
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...
THE LIFE IS MORE THAN MEAT,.... What in Matthew is put by way of question, is here strongly affirmed; and these words contain a reason or argument to dissuade from an anxious, distressing thought and...
The life is more than meat, and the body _is more_ than raiment. Ver. 23. See Matthew 6:25,27...
_And he said unto his disciples_ Having delivered the preceding instructive and awakening parable, whereby he intended to caution the contending brothers and the multitude against covetousness, sensua...
Taking thought for the morrow. Matthew 6:25-34....
OF TRUST IN GOD AND PREPARATION FOR CHRIST'S COMING. Warnings against care:...
THE LIFE IS MORE THAN MEAT, AND THE BODY IS MORE THAN RAIMENT....
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,...
22-40 Christ largely insisted upon this caution not to give way to disquieting, perplexing cares, Matthew 6:25. The arguments here used are for our encouragement to cast our care upon God, which is t...
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Tertullian Of Patience of less important things?[83]...
Luke 12:23 Life G5590 is G2076 (G5748) more G4119 food G5160 and G2532 body G4983 clothing G1742...
HIS DISCIPLES SHOULD HAVE THEIR MINDS SET ON HEAVENLY AFFAIRS NOT EARTHLY AFFAIRS (12:22-34). Having made clear His position concerning wealth and its use Jesus now turns to those who have little weal...
THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDS FOOD AND CLOTHING, THE THINGS THAT MEN SEEK AFTER ‘And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I say to you, Do not be anxious for your life (soul), what you shall eat, nor yet fo...
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...
Luke 12:23. THE LIFE IS MORE, etc. ‘You turn it exactly round: food is meant to serve life, but life forsooth serves food; clothes are to serve the body, but the body forsooth must serve the clothing;...
Luke 12:22-34. WARNING AGAINST WORLDLY CARE, or lessons of trust in God. These verses were addressed to the disciples (Luke 12:22), and the connection with what precedes is close. THEREFORE, since wo...
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...
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...
Luke 12:23 Man's Future Destiny. I. Since the Resurrection, since Jesus came out of the sepulchre with the same or like body with which He entered into it, with the same faculties and senses, the fut...
Luke 12:22. _And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the...
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...
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...
Luke 12:13. _And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me, And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?_ Our Lord...
Luke 12:13. _And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?_ Our Lord...
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...
DO NOT BE WORRIED. These verses about Trust in God are almost identical to those in Matthew 6:25-34. See notes there....
_Take no thought for your life_ REASONS FOR BANISHING VEXATIOUS CARE 1. It is needless; “your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of these things”; and will certainly provide for you; and wha...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:22 THEREFORE (because of the truths taught in vv. Luke 12:13) ... do not be anxious
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 12:22. TAKE NO THOUGHT.—Rather, “be not anxious” (R.V.). The meaning of the word “thought” has changed since 1611. Then it meant “anxiety” (see 1 Samuel 9:5). Luke 12:23. IS MOR...
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...
Acts 27:18; Acts 27:19; Acts 27:38; Genesis 19:17; Job 1:12;...