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Verse Luke 15:2. _RECEIVETH SINNERS_] προσδεχεται. He
receives them _cordially, affectionately _- takes them to _his bosom_;
for so the word implies. What mercy! Jesus receives sinners in the
most _lo...
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MURMURED - They affected to suppose that if Jesus treated sinners
kindly he must be fond of their society, and be a man of similar
character. “They” considered it disgraceful to be with them or to
eat...
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CHAPTER 15
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1. The Murmuring Pharisees. (Luke 15:1)
2. The Parable of the Lost Sheep. (Luke 15:3)
3. The Parable of the Lost Coin. (Luke 15:8)
4. The Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Elder Br...
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LUKE 25. THREE PARABLES SHOWING GOD'S LOVE FOR THE LOST, AND HIS JOY
AT THEIR RESTORATION. The three parables in this chapter have no
definite note of time or place. An introduction is supplied from L...
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The tax-collectors and sinners were all coming near to Jesus to hear
him, and the Pharisees and scribes were murmuring, saying, "This man
welcomes sinners and eats with them."
He spoke this parable to...
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THE SHEPHERD'S JOY (Luke 15:1-7)...
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PHARISEES. See App-120. This settles the scope of all that follows.
MURMURED. were muttering. The word implies subdued threatening. Occurs
only here and Luke 19:7.
SINNERS. See on Matthew 9:10....
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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...
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THE LOST SHEEP...
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ΔΙΕΓΌΓΓΥΖΟΝ. ‘Were loudly murmuring’ (Luke 19:7; Joshua
9:18). “With arid heart they blame the very Fount of Mercy,”
Gregory the Great. In all ages it had been their sin that they
‘sought not the lost...
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Ver 1. Then drew near to him all the Publicans and sinners for to hear
him. 2. And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying, This man
receives sinners, and eats with them. 3. And he spoke this parab...
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ΔΙΕΓΌΓΓΥΖΟΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΔΙΑΓΟΓΓΎΖΩ
(G1234) роптать, бормотать про себя,
внутри своей компании (Plummer; Воск). О
злоупотреблениях сборщиков податей
_см._ NDIEC, 8:68-74; DJG, 805-6. _Impf._ и...
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THEN DREW NEAR—ALL THE PUBLICANS, &C.— To do good unto all sorts
of men, was the employment and highest pleasure of the Son of God;
accordingly, when the tax-gatherers and sinners came to hear him, he...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Christ Receives Sinful Men
Scripture_
Luke 15:1-2 Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto
him to hear him. 2 And both the Pharisees and the scribes murmured,
s...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 1
Lost Sheep (Luke 15:1-7)
15 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear
him. 2And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man
receives...
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And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth
sinners, and eateth with them.
AND THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES MURMURED, SAYING, THIS MAN RECEIVETH
SINNERS, AND EATETH WITH THEM....
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34-35 Compare Mat_5:13; Mar_9:50.
1 Compare Luk_7:34-35; Mat_9:10-13.
2 Our Lord's liking for sinners led the proud, self-righteous
Pharisees and scribes to utter a most precious truth, though they,...
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PARABLES OF THE LOST SHEEP, OF THEM LOST COIN, OF THE PRODIGAL SON
1-7. Parable of the Lost Sheep. See on Matthew 18:12. The first of a
series of three parables for the encouragement of penitents. It...
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LUKE’S GOOD NEWS
LUKE
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 15
*PARABLES OF GOD’S LOVE 15:1-32
1 INTRODUCTION 15:1-2
Jesus told three *parables as an answer to the *Pharisees. They did
not approve of him beca...
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AND THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES... — Here, too, we may well believe
that the speakers were some of the guests of Luke 14:15. They had
followed Him to see what He would do, and were at once startled and...
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CHAPTER 21
LOST AND FOUND.
IN this chapter we see how the waves of influence, moving outward from
their Divine center, touch the outermost fringe of humanity, sending
the pulsations of new excitemen...
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διεγόγγυζον : the διὰ conveys the idea of a general
pervasive murmuring. This is probably not an instance illustrating
Hermann's remark (_ad Viger._, p. 856) that this preposition in
compound verbs of...
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_Historic introduction_. ἦσαν ἐγγίζοντες : either were
in the act of approaching Jesus at a given time (Meyer), or were in
the habit of doing so. The position of αὐτῷ before
ἐγγίζοντες in [124] [125]...
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SEEKING AND FINDING THE LOST
Luke 15:1-10
They that have left the fold in which they were nurtured in early
life, and have gone over bleak mountains and through tangled brakes,
find themselves in thi...
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Our Lord's attitude toward the sinning multitudes aroused the
hostility of the Pharisees, and to them principally He uttered the
great discourse of this chapter, consisting of a threefold parable. In...
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CHAPTER 12
THE HUNDRED SHEEP
Luke 15:1-7. Our Lord is still in Perea, east of the Jordan, with His
face toward Jerusalem, traveling slowly, accompanied by vast
multitudes, to whom, daily halting, He...
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5. _The Parables of Grace:_ chap. 15.
This piece contains: 1 _st._ A historical introduction (Luke 15:1-2);
2 _d._ A pair of parables, like that of the previous chapter (Luke
15:3-10); and 3 _d._ A gr...
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Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth
sinners, and eateth with them.
The imagination can hardly form...
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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...
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_PENITENCE AND COMMUNION_
‘This Man receiveth sinners.’
Luke 15:2
Among the many devices of the Enemy, against which the Christian has
to be put upon his guard, one of the most dangerous is that of...
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_EXCLUSIVENESS AND FORMALITY_
‘The Pharisees and scribes murmured.’
Luke 15:2
The crowds which gathered about our Lord in the course of His mission
were eminently representative of the various phas...
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Having thus unfolded the difference in character between the two
dispensations, and the circumstances of the transition from the one to
the other, the Lord turns (chapter 15) to higher principles the...
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AND THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES MURMURED,.... When they saw the easy
access these wicked men had to Christ; and that he stopped and stayed
with them, and very freely imparted instructions to them: sayin...
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And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth
sinners, and eateth with them.
Ver. 2. _But the scribes and Pharisees_] Being sick of the devil's
disease, and doing his lusts,John...
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_And he spake this parable_ That he might justify his conversing
freely with sinners, in order to their reformation and salvation, he
spake the parable of the lost sheep, which he had delivered once
b...
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MURMURED; found fault with him for associating with vicious persons,
or permitting them to approach him. He therefore spoke three parables,
showing that God receives and rejoices over sinners who retu...
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PARABLES OF THE LOVE OF CHRIST TO THE LOST.
The murmuring Pharisees:...
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AND THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES MURMURED, SAYING, THIS MAN RECEIVETH
SINNERS, AND EATETH WITH THEM.
The fifteenth chapter of Luke is, as one commentator has called it,
the golden center of this Gospel,...
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SEEKING THE LOST SHEEP
(vs.3-7)
Though discipleship to Christ is a wonderful privilege, yet man would
never choose a path of true discipleship if God did not seek him
first. In this chapter we see t...
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1-10 The parable of the lost sheep is very applicable to the great
work of man's redemption. The lost sheep represents the sinner as
departed from God, and exposed to certain ruin if not brought back...
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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 15:2...
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Luke 15:2 And G2532 Pharisees G5330 and G2532 scribes G1122 complained
G1234 (G5707) saying G3004 (G5723) Man...
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‘And both the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This
man receives sinners, and eats with them.'
It is clear that Jesus welcomed these ‘public servants and sinners'
openly (compare Luke 5:30...
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THREE PARABLES DEALING WITH THE SEEKING AND SAVING OF THE LOST
(15:1-32).
It will have been noted how great a concentration there is in this
section on preparing for the eternal future, and on the Ki...
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MEN MUST LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN IN HIS
GLORY (15:1-19:28).
Having established in Section 1 that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in
the city of David where He was proclaimed ‘Sav...
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THE PARABLES OF THE SEEKING SHEPHERD AND THE LOST COIN (15:1-10).
In these twin parables Jesus illustrates Heaven's concern over all
lost persons, whoever they may be, and of whatever class they be, a...
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Luke 15:2. WHAT IS THIS THAT I HEAR OF THEE, _i.e.,_ explain this
report.
RENDER THE ACCOUNT OF THY STEWARDSHIP. No previous reckoning had been
made : regular statements were then unusual.
CANST NO...
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Luke 15:1-2. THE OCCASION OF THE DISCOURSE. HOW ALL THE PUBLICANS AND
SINNERS. Not all kinds, nor all without exception, but very many, so
that this was the rule.
WERE DRAWING NEAR. At this time were...
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CONNECTION. We have a single discourse, consisting mainly of parables,
from chap. Luke 15:1 to chap. Luke 17:10. It was delivered during the
journey from Perea to Jericho, and occasioned by the fact t...
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Luke 15:2. MURMURED, among themselves. That they did not speak thus to
our Lord Himself is evident.
THIS MAN. The expression does not necessarily imply contempt.
RECEIVETH SINNERS. His enemies sai...
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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...
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BOTH... AND
(τε... κα). United in the complaint.MURMURED
(διεγογγυζον). Imperfect active of διαγογγυζω,
late Greek compound in the LXX and Byzantine writers. In the N.T. only
here and Luke 19:7. T...
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SINNERS
SIN
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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Luke 15:1
It has been observed that intense cold will produce very much the same
effect as fervent heat. The ring of iron that surrounds a wheel, being
exposed to keen frosts during a long winter's ni...
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We have read this chapter together many times; possibly some of us
have read it hundreds of times; yet whenever we read it, we always
find something fresh in it. It is ever bright and sparkling, full...
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Luke 15:1. _Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for
to hear him._
However sunken they might be, they knew their best Friend; they
recognized their Benefactor, so they gathered aroun...
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This is a chapter that needs no explanation; it carries its key within
itself, and the experience of every child of God is the best
exposition of it. The three parables recorded here set forth the wor...
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CONTENTS: Parables of the lost sheep, lost coin and lost son.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharisees, scribes.
CONCLUSION: God has a particular care over backsliding sinners (Isr.
in this case) and follows th...
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Luke 15:1. _Then drew near all the publicans and sinners to hear him._
The pharisees were so intoxicated with ideas of their own
righteousness, as to regard all such characters as excluded from the
co...
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THE PHARISEES AND THE TEACHERS OF THE LAW. The _Pharisees_ were the
orthodox religious leaders. The _teachers of the Law_ were the
_theologians._ AND EVEN EATS WITH THEM! No strict Jew could eat with...
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_This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them_
CHRIST’S INFLUENCE WITH THE MASSES
The masses were drawn to Christ’s teachings.
I. THE REASONS FOR THIS ADMIRATION.
1. All lack of affectation--n...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 15:2 RECEIVES SINNERS AND EATS WITH THEM. For
similar criticisms, see Luke 5:27; Luke 7:39
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_And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured._ For as they avoided the
touch of unclean bodies, so did they avoid that of sinful souls. Hence
they did not deign to speak to sinners, much less to eat with t...
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CHAPTER 15
Ver. 1. _Then drew near under Him all the publicans and sinners_.
_πάντες_, all, that is, many came together to hear Christ,
attracted by His sanctity and by the loving-kindness with which...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 15:1. PUBLICANS AND SINNERS.—_I.e._, tax-gatherers, odious to
the whole nation on account of their occupation and their
unscrupulousness in carrying it on, and persons from whom...
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EXPOSITION
LUKE 15:1
The _Lord speaks his three parable-stories of the _"lost," _in which
he explains his reason for loving and receiving the sinful._
LUKE 15:1,...
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Then drew near to him all the publicans and sinners to hear him. And
the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners,
and eats with them (Luke 15:1-2).
Notice the four groups tha...
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1 Corinthians 5:9; Acts 11:3; Galatians 2:12; Luke 15:29; Luke 15:30
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CHRIST SEEKING TO SAVE
Luke 15:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The story of the prodigal son is one part of a threefold parable.
1. WE HAVE THE SHEPHERD SUFFERING AS HE SEEKS HIS SHEEP. The parable
describes...