Verse Luke 11:52. _YE HAVE TAKEN AWAY THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE_] By your traditions ye have taken away the true method of interpreting the prophecies: ye have given a wrong meaning to those scriptures wh...
WOE UNTO YOU, LAWYERS! - See the notes at Matthew 23:13. THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE - A key is made to open a lock or door. By their false interpretation of the Old Testament they had taken away the true ke...
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...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
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...
KEY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for entrance to and acquirement of knowledge. Compare Malachi 2:8. HINDERED. forbade, as in Luke 9:49....
_ye have taken away the key of knowledge_ A key was the regular symbol of the function of a scribe (Matthew 13:52; Matthew 16:19), which was to open the meaning of the Holy Books. The crime charged ag...
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...
ἬΡΑΤΕ ΤῊΝ ΚΛΕΙ͂ΔΑ ΤΗ͂Σ ΓΝΏΣΕΩΣ. D reads ἀπεκρύψατε, _Ye concealed the key_, but that is implied in their _taking it away_ and rendering it inaccessible. Our Lord here denounces the common spirit of th...
THE INVITATION OF THE PHARISEE AND THE OPEN RUPTURE...
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 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...
ΉΡΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ Α'ΊΡΩ (G142) забирать, ΚΛΕΊΔΑ _асс. sing. от_ ΚΛΕΊΣ (G2807) ключ. Ключ знания — это ключ, который открывает сокровищницу знания; это правильное толкование Писания (Arndt)....
FOR YE HAVE TAKEN AWAY THE KEY, &C.— Vitringa understands this of _one fundamental truth,_ which would have led them into the knowledge of the rest: but all their endeavours to embarrass and bias the...
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...
And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, NOW DO YE PH...
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...
See on Matthew 23:13. THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE] i.e. the key which opens the door to knowledge of the things concerning the kingdom of God....
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....
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...
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...
WOE UNTO YOU, LAWYERS! — The “woe” in this case is uttered against those who were, by their very calling, the professed interpreters of the Law. Its form rests on the fact that each scribe or “doctor...
Final woe on the lawyers, a kind of anticlimax. _Cf._ Mt., where the pathetic apostrophe to Jerusalem follows and concludes the discourse. τὴν κλεῖδα τῆς γνώσεως, the key which is knowledge (genitive...
_Castigation of the scribes present_; severe, but justified by having been invited....
_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...
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...
(16) Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have (n) taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. (16) Those who ought to be the door keepers of t...
You have taken away the key of knowledge. A comparison of a master that locks others out. As if Christ said: you pretend, as masters and teachers, to open and expound the law and the prophets; and by...
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...
VER. 52: _The Monopoly of Theology._ “ _Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered._ ” The religious d...
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...
(42) But, woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgement, and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. (43...
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 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....
WOE UNTO YOU LAWYERS,.... Who are particularly addressed again in distinction from the Pharisees, though much the same things are said to them both in Matthew 23:13 FOR YE HAVE TAKEN AWAY THE KEY OF...
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. Ver. 52. _Woe unto you, lawyers_] I see well, said father...
_Wo unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge_ Ye have obscured and destroyed the true knowledge of the Messiah, which is the key both of the present and the future kingdom of hea...
THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE; they prevented the people from obtaining the true knowledge of Jesus as the Messiah. They would not believe in him themselves, and they hindered others. To hinder men from obtain...
WOE UNTO YOU, LAWYERS! FOR YE HAVE TAKEN AWAY THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE; YE ENTERED NOT IN YOURSELVES, AND THEM THAT WERE ENTERING IN YE HINDERED....
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...
HINDERED: Or, forbade...
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...
Matthew saith, MATTHEW 23:13, _for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men, &c._ I take the sense of these words to be, You have taken away knowledge, which is the key by which men enter into the...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV of such a disposition as the Marcionites denounce, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the fourth generation? What "key," indeed, was it which t...
Luke 11:52 Woe G3759 you G5213 lawyers G3544 For G3754 away G142 (G5656) key G2807 knowledge G1108 did...
THE WOEFUL STATE OF THOSE WHOSE LIGHT IS DARKNESS, AND WHO THEREFORE COME UNDER HIS WOES (11:37-52). But sadly there are those whose eyes turn away from the light. Instead of their eyes being fixed on...
“Woe to you lawyers! for you took away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.” The final charge against the Doctors of the Law is that they...
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...
Luke 11:52. This verse forms a fitting close to the part of the discourse occasioned by the lawyer's remark. It expresses the same thought as Matthew 23:13, but carries out the figure further. THE KE...
YE TOOK AWAY THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE (ηρατε την κλειδα της γνωσεως). First aorist active indicative of αιρω, common verb. But this is a flat charge of obscurantism on the part of these scribes (lawyers...
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...
SO THE LORD SAID TO HIM. Jesus may have said this more than once. See notes on a similar lesson in Matthew 23:1-36; Luke 11:41 is only given by Luke. The Jewish leaders hated everybody who was not a p...
_Ye have taken away the key of knowledge_ THE SIN OF PERVERTING SCRIPTURE The last woe pronounced by our Saviour against the Scribes and Pharisees, is for perverting the Holy Scriptures, and keeping...
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...
_Woe unto you, lawyers!_ Ye have usurped, as S. Ambrose renders the Greek _ήζατε_, the key of knowledge, _i.e._, the teaching of the law and the interpretation of scripture. Ye have used this knowledg...
_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...
Acts 4:17; Acts 4:18; Acts 5:40; John 7:47; John 9:24;...
Ye have taken away the key of knowledge — Ye have obscured and destroyed the knowledge of the Messiah, which is the key of both the present and the future kingdom of heaven; the kingdom of grace and g...