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Luke 14:33
forsaketh not all that he hath i.e. every affection, gift or possession that interferes with true discipleship. We must be ready -to count all things but loss for Christ," Philippians 3:7-8.
forsaketh not all that he hath i.e. every affection, gift or possession that interferes with true discipleship. We must be ready -to count all things but loss for Christ," Philippians 3:7-8.
Verse Luke 14:33. _WHOSOEVER HE BE OF YOU_] This seems to be addressed particularly to those who were _then_, and who were _to be_, preachers of his Gospel; and who were to travel over all countries,...
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. ...
DISCIPLESHIP AND ITS COST. The passage is a reminder that, despite the universality of the Kingdom, the number of its true subjects is small. To the crowd that is following Him Jesus applies a stringe...
UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF HOSTILE MEN (Luke 14:1-6)...
Great crowds were on the way with Jesus. He turned and said to them, "If any man comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own...
FORSAKETH. taketh leave of. HE HATH. himself possesses....
ΟΥ̓Κ�. ‘_Renounceth not all his possessions_’ (Vulg[288] _renunciat_, comp. Luke 9:61); i.e. every affection, gift or possession that interferes with true discipleship. We must be ready ‘to count all...
LESSONS OF WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS, AND OF COUNTING THE COST; THE TOWER-BUILDER; THE WARRING KING; THE SAVOURLESS SALT...
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 28. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sits not down first, and counts the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29. Lest haply, after he has laid the foundation, and is not ab...
_THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP -- LUKE 14:25-35:_ Large crowds often accompanied Jesus as He traveled about. Jesus taught the cost of discipleship saying, "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, a...
ΑΠΟΤΆΣΣΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΟΤΆΣΣΟΜΑΙ (G657) прощаться, отказываться, отрекаться, охотно отдавать или оставлять свое имущество, с _dat._ (LN, 1:566; _см._ NDIEC, 1:58-9). ΎΠΆΡΧΟΥΣΙΝ _p...
DISCOURSE: 1541 THE FOOLISH BUILDER AND THE INCONSIDERATE KING Luke 14:28. Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish...
SO LIKEWISE,— "Whoever engages to be my disciple without counting the cost, and resolving to part with all that he hath, will certainly be disheartened by the unexpected difficulties which he shall me...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Grounded (Luke 14:25-35) 25 Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, 26If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and...
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. SO LIKEWISE, WHOSOEVER HE BE OF YOU THAT FORSAKETH NOT ALL THAT HE HATH, HE CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE....
10 Compare Pro_25:6-7. 12 The pure joy of giving is largely lost when it degenerates into a trade. Yet it seems from this that we cannot give without being recompensed. If we give to get we may, indee...
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)....
THAT WE MUST GIVE UP ALL TO FOLLOW CHRIST, AND COUNT THE COST BEFORE WE DO SO. The two parables of the Rash Builder (Luke 14:28) and the Rash King (Luke 14:31) are peculiar to Lk. The multitude who fo...
FORSAKETH NOT ALL] Only the Apostles (and the Seventy) were required to do this in act, but every disciple is required to do it in will, i.e. to subordinate all earthly interests and claims to Christ'...
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...
WHOSOEVER HE BE OF YOU THAT FORSAKETH NOT... — Better, _that renounceth not._ This, then, was the immediate lesson which the company of eager disciples had to learn: to say good-bye to their “all,” wh...
_Parables illustrating the need of counting the cost_, peculiar to Lk., but intrinsically probable as sayings of Jesus, and thoroughly germane to the foregoing discourse. The connection is: It is a se...
_The king going to fight_. This is the affair of the few, a parable to be laid to heart by men aspiring to, or capable of, a grand career. συμβαλεῖν εἰς πόλεμον, to encounter in war (R.V [121]). or pe...
_Concio ad populum_. Jesus now appears on the way, and followed by “many multitudes” (ὄχλοι πολλοί, Luke 14:25) to whom He speaks. Thus sayings which in Mt. and Mk. form part of disciple-instruction ...
gives the applicatio of the parable. Hofmann, Keil, and Hahn divide the sentence into two, utting a full stop after ὑμῶν and rendering: “So then every one of you! (do the same thing, _i.e._, consider)...
THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP Luke 14:25-35 Here we have our Lord's use of the winnowing-fan. Amid the teeming crowds He knew that there were many light and superficial souls who had not realized the cos...
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...
PREPARE TO MEET GOD Luke 14:31-33. “ _What king_, _marching off to engage in war with another king_, _will not first_, _sitting down_, _counsel if he is able_, _with ten thousand_, _to meet him coming...
HEALING OF PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW Matthew 8:14-17; Mark 1:2-34; & Luke 14:3-35 Mark: “And immediately coming out of the synagogue? came into the house of Simon and Andrew and James and John. The mother...
4. _A Warning against hasty Professions: Luke 14:25-35_. The journey resumes its course; great crowds follow Jesus. There is consequently an attraction to His side. This appears in the plurals ὄχλοι,...
_The Application of those two Parables, with a new Figure confirming it._ “ _So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple._ 34. _Salt is good: but...
And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient...
_THE GENIUS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION_ ‘So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:33 The genius of the Christian religion lies in sa...
Luke 14:33._So then every one of you _This clause shows what is meant by the _calculation of expenses, _with which Christ enjoins his followers to begin: it is to lead them to consider that they must...
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...
SO LIKEWISE WHOSOEVER HE BE OF YOU,.... Let him be ever so forward to follow me, to make a profession of me and of my Gospel, and to become a disciple of mine: THAT FORSAKETH NOT ALL THAT HE HATH; wh...
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. Ver. 33. _That forsaketh not_] Gr. αποταξαμενος, that bids not farewell to all....
_Which of you, intending to build a tower_, (the word πυργος here signifying the same as the Hebrew _migdol_, seems to denote any great building whatever,) _sitteth not down first and counteth the cos...
FORSAKETH NOT ALL; all that stands in the way of duty-all that would hinder a man from doing the known will of God....
Two parables for emphasis:...
SO LIKEWISE, WHOSOEVER HE BE OF YOU THAT FORSAKETH NOT ALL THAT HE HATH, HE CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE. Foolish is he that counteth not the cost. If a man wants to build a tower, a fine, high structure, pr...
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...
25-35 Though the disciples of Christ are not all crucified, yet they all bear their cross, and must bear it in the way of duty. Jesus bids them count upon it, and then consider of it. Our Saviour exp...
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Cyprian Treatise IV On the Lord's Prayer But it may also be thus understood, that we who have renounced the world, and have cast away its riches and pomps in the faith of spiritual grace, should only...
Luke 14:33 So G3779 likewise G3767 whoever G3956 of G1537 you G5216 G3739 does G657 not G3756 forsake...
THE CALL TO DISCIPLESHIP (14:25-35). Luke closes this section off as he opened it by showing Jesus as challenging His disciples and His would be disciples to consider what was involved in what they we...
“So therefore whoever he be of you who does not renounce all that he has, he cannot be my disciple.” Looking back therefore at the two examples of what discipleship will cost in terms of loss of famil...
THE discourse was delivered, on the way to Jerusalem, probably very shortly after the meal in the Pharisee's house (Luke 14:1-24). The _place_ was therefore Perea, and the _time_ one of the three days...
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...
Luke 14:33. SO THEN, etc. The illustrations are applied to the principle laid down in Luke 14:26-27. Unless one is prepared to do this, after due consideration and with a full view of his own insuffic...
RENOUNCETH NOT (ουκ αποτασσετα). Old Greek word to set apart as in a military camp, then in the middle voice to separate oneself from, say good-bye to (Luke 9:61), to renounce, forsake, as here.ALL...
Luke 14:25. _And there went great multitudes with him:_ During at least a part of his earthly ministry, Christ was very popular. The people crowded to his feet, and they were willing to make him a ki...
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....
HE SITS DOWN FIRST AND FIGURES OUT WHAT IT WILL COST. This is just good sense. Before anyone follows Christ, they must learn what it will cost them, because everything that stands between them and Chr...
_He cannot be My disciple_ CHRIST REQUIRES SUPREME REGARD I. THE POSSESSIONS WHICH JESUS CHRIST REQUIRES US TO FORSAKE IN ORDER TO OUR BECOMING HIS DISCIPLES. In our text Jesus Christ authoritativel...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 14:33 See note on vv. 26–27. Compare Luke 5:11, Luke 5:28;...
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...
_So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath_, &c. This is the post-parable, and sums up the teaching of the parable itself. "He who refuseth to give up all, in order that...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 14:25. THERE WENT WITH HIM.—_I.e._, journeyed with Him; many, if not most, of them being on their way to one of the feasts in Jerusalem. The multitudes were attracted by Christ’s...
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...
1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:16; 2 Timothy 4:10; Acts 5:1; Acts 8:19;...
Forsaketh [α π ο τ α σ σ ε τ α ι]. Bids good - by to. Rev., renounceth. See on ch. Luke 9:61. "In that forsaketh lies the key to the whole passage" (Trench). Christian discipleship is founded in self...
So — Like this man, who, being afraid to face his enemy, sends to make peace with him, every one who forsaketh not all that he hath — By withdrawing his affections from all the creatures; By enjoying...