Verse Luke 7:47. _FOR SHE LOVED MUCH_] Or, _THEREFORE she loved much_. It appears to have been a consciousness of God's forgiving love that brought her at this time to the Pharisee's house. In the co...
WHEREFORE I SAY UNTO THEE - As the result of this, or because she has done this; meaning by this that she had given “evidence” that her sins had been forgiven. The inquiry with Simon was whether it wa...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Centurion's Servant Healed. (Luke 7:1 .)_ 2. The Widow's Son Raised from the Dead. (Luke 7:11) 3. John's Questions and the Answer. (Luke 7:18) 4. The Testimony Concerning John. ...
THE ANOINTING OF JESUS. Lk. only; perhaps based on the incident (though not to be identified with it) recorded in Mark 14:3 *, Matthew 26:6 *, and introduced here in illustration of Jesus-' friend shi...
A SOLDIER'S FAITH (Luke 7:1-10)...
One of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him. He went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table; and--look you--there was a woman in the town, a bad woman. She knew that he was at table in...
WHEREFORE. for which cause, or because her sins are forgiven. sins. App-128. FOR. that. This could be seen; and was the sign, not the cause or consequence....
_for she loved much_ Rather, BECAUSE. No doubt, theologically, faith, not love, is the means of pardon (Luke 7:50); hence, some interpret the _-because" a posteriori_, and make it mean -she is forgive...
ὍΤΙ ἨΓΆΠΗΣΕΝ ΠΟΛΎ. ‘Because.’ No doubt, theologically, faith, not love, is the means of pardon (Luke 7:50); hence, some (with Calvin) interpret the ‘_because’ a posteriori_, and make it mean ‘she is f...
Ver 36. And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. 37. And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she...
ΟΎ ΧΆΡΙΝ поэтому, на основании этого, ΆΦΈΩΝΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ (G863) отпускать, прощать. _Perf._ указывает на длительные результаты или состояние после завершения действия, ΉΓΆΠΗΣΕΝ _a...
FOR SHE LOVED MUCH:— _Wherefore she loved much._ That nobody might put a wrong construction upon this woman's behaviour, our Lord declared, that her regard to him proceeded purely from a sense of the...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 5 The Self-Satisfied (Luke 7:36-50) 36 One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house, and took his place at table. 37And behold, a w...
Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. WHEREFORE I SAY UNTO THEE, HER SINS, WHICH ARE MANY, A...
44 An honored guest would not only be given water, but would have had his feet washed by a slave; he would have been given a kiss of welcome by his host; and he would have been sprayed or rubbed with...
CHRIST ANOINTED AT THE HOUSE OF SIMON THE PHARISEE (peculiar to Lk). Placed here as an illustration of how 'Wisdom' (i.e. the Gospel) is justified by the changed life of one of 'her children' (this si...
'Thou canst see that she is a reformed character and that her many sins have been forgiven, because of the love she bears to Me, who have saved her from her sinful life.' It should be carefully observ...
RAISING OF THE WIDOW'S SON. THE WOMAN WHO WAS A SINNER 1-10. Healing of the centurion's servant. See on Matthew 8:5....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 THE *FAITH OF AN ARMY OFFICER 7:1-10 V1 When Jesus had finished saying all these things to the people, he went to Capernaum. V2 In that town, an of...
HER SINS, WHICH ARE MANY, ARE FORGIVEN. — Grammatically, the words admit of two interpretations, equally tenable. (1) Love may be represented as the ground of forgiveness, existing prior to it, and ac...
CHAPTER 13 THE ANOINTING OF THE FEET. Luke 7:36 WHETHER the narrative of the Anointing is inserted in its chronological order we cannot say, for the Evangelist gives us no word by which we may recog...
_The sinful woman_. This section, peculiar to Lk., one of the golden evangelic incidents we owe to him, is introduced here with much tact, as it serves to illustrate how Jesus came to be called the fr...
_Host and guest_. ἀποκριθεὶς, answering, to his thought written on his face. Σίμων : the Pharisee now is called by his own name as in friendly intercourse. The whole dialogue on Christ's part presents...
οὗ χάριν, wherefore, introducing Christ's theory of the woman's extraordinary behaviour as opposed to Simon's ungenerous suspicions. λέγω σοι, I tell you, with emphasis; what Jesus firmly believes and...
THE FORGIVEN SINNER'S GRATEFUL LOVE Luke 7:36-50 What a trio! _Christ_ stands here as a manifestation of the divine love, as it comes among sinners. The love of God is not dependent on our merits; _f...
Here our Lord passed over the national boundary to bring blessing to the household of a Roman centurion. Of that man the elders said, "He is worthy." The man said, "I am not worthy." Jesus Said, "I ha...
Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; (f) for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, [the same] loveth little. (f) That is, says Theophylact, she has shown her fa...
_Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much. In the Scripture, an effect sometimes seems attributed to one only cause, when there are divers other concurring dispositions; the sins of thi...
CHAPTER 23. GRATITUDE OF THE FALLEN WOMAN WHOM JESUS HAD SAVED Luke 7:36-50. “A certain one of the Pharisees asked Him that He may eat with him; and coming into the house of the Pharisee, He sat down...
_The Application._ Jesus follows an order the inverse of that which He had taken in the parable. In the latter He descends from the cause to the effect, from the debt remitted to the gratitude experi...
(36) And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him: and he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. (37) And, behold, a woman in the city which was a sinner, when she kn...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
_THE RESULT OF FORGIVENESS_ ‘Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.’ Luke 7:47 There is a sli...
47._Her many sins are forgiven _Some interpret the verb differently, _may her many sins be forgiven, _and bring out the following meaning: — “As this woman evinces by remarkable actions, that she is f...
Hence, after this, we find the Spirit acting in the heart of a Gentile (chapter 7). That heart manifested more faith than any among the children of Israel. Humble in heart, and loving the people of Go...
WHEREFORE I SAY UNTO THEE,.... Not "for this that she hath done", as the Persic version very wrongly renders it; not because she had washed Christ's feet with tears, and wiped them with her hairs, and...
Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, _the same_ loveth little. Ver. 47. _For she loved much_] _Nam, notificativum est...
_And he turned to the woman_ That had been a scandalous, notorious sinner, and was the greater, the five hundred pence debtor. The Pharisee, however, though the less, the fifty pence debtor, yet was a...
FOR SHE LOVED MUCH; according to the parable, much love is the fruit of having been forgiven much. This woman shows much love, which should be to Simon a manifest proof that she had been forgiven much...
The lesson:...
WHEREFORE I SAY UNTO THEE, HER SINS, WHICH ARE MANY, ARE FORGIVEN; FOR SHE LOVED MUCH; BUT TO WHOM LITTLE IS FORGIVEN, THE SAME LOVETH LITTLE....
A CENTURION'S SERVANT HEALED (vs.1-10) The Lord then came to Capernaum and there was appealed to by a Gentile, a Roman centurion, by means of the mediatorship of Jewish elders. In contrast to this a...
36-50 None can truly perceive how precious Christ is, and the glory of the gospel, except the broken-hearted. But while they feel they cannot enough express self-abhorrence on account of sin, and adm...
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Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II But the woman not having yet received the Word (for she was still a sinner), honoured the Lord with what she thought the most precious thing in her posses...
Luke 7:47 Therefore G3739 G5484 say G3004 (G5719) you G4671 her G846 sins G266 which G3588 many...
“For this reason I say to you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much, but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.” And what did all this prove? It proved that she had g...
A COMPARISON of the various accounts renders it highly probable that the Evangelist is here following the strict chronological order. (Some think the words of Luke 7:34 may have suggested the insertio...
Luke 7:47. WHEREFORE I SAY TO THEE. Because of these exhibitions of love, in recognition of them, I say to thee. Our Lord gives the reason for His _saying_ that she is forgiven, not for the forgivenes...
ARE FORGIVEN (αφεωντα). Doric perfect passive form. See Luke 5:21; Luke 5:23.FOR SHE LOVED MUCH (οτ ηγαπησεν πολυ). Illustration or proof, not reason for the forgiveness. Her sins had been alread...
Luke 7:47 We learn from this story that such love as the Magdalene showed to our blessed Lord is the point of forgiveness, of forbearance, and of service. "Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for...
Luke 7:44 The Forgiveness of Sin the Remission of a Debt. I. There are a peculiar tenderness and quiet pathos about this narrative which have commended it to many, even of those who have no taste for...
Luke 7:36 I. The narrative encourages sinners of every name and degree to go at once to Christ. He will in nowise cast them out. There are no more touching stories in the Gospels than those which tell...
Luke 7:36. _And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat._ It was usually a suspicious circumstance when a Pharisee des...
Luke 7:36. _And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat._ They sat according to the Eastern custom of sitting, which w...
Luke 7:24. _And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?_ Certainly...
Luke 7:18. _And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things._ John was in prison, and, possibly, troubled in spirit. Luke 7:19. _And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to...
CONTENTS: Centurion's servant healed. Widow's son raised. Questions from John the Baptist in prison and Jesus' testimony. Jesus annointed in the Pharisee's house. Parable of the creditor and two debto...
Luke 7:2. _A certain centurion's servant._ As soon as this officer heard of Christ, he believed in him, having been assured of the miracles by competent witnesses. Being a gentile, he sent the rulers...
I TELL YOU, THEN. "Simon, if the one who was forgiven more will love more, this woman's great love proves she has been forgiven, because she had a lot to be forgiven for." [Simon thinks of the woman a...
_And, behold, a woman in the city which was a sinner_ Jesus anointed by a weeping penitent in the house of Simon the Pharisee Much love shown where much sin has been forgiven I. IT IS TO THIS INDIVID...
_Her sins, which are many, are forgiven_ HER SINS Incontinency of life is enough to give the denomination, and is a sin that is accompanied with many other sins besides itself. A brood of sins are h...
CHAPTER 7 VER.1. _Now when he had ended_ (or fulfilled) _all his sayings_....
_Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much_. Greek, _α̉φέωνται_, have been forgiven. At what time, we may ask, were her sins forgiven? 1. Francis Lucas thi...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 7:36. ONE OF THE PHARISEES.—The invitation given by one of the Pharisees to Jesus would seem to belong to an early period of His ministry, before the enmity of that party against...
EXPOSITION LUKE 7:1 The _servant _(_or slave_)_ of the centurion of Capernaum is healed._ LUKE 7:1 NOW WHEN HE HAD ENDED ALL HIS SAYINGS. This clearly refers to the sermon on the mount. That great...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 7. At this point in Luke's gospel he is going to give us series of events, miracles that transpired in the life of Jesus. When he ended these say...
1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 3:18; 1 John 4:19; 1 John 5:3;...
THE WOMAN WHO WAS A SINNER Luke 7:36 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There was a great gulf between the Pharisees and the publicans. The Pharisees professed a piety, that, in their own estimation, lifted them f...
Those many sins of hers are forgiven; therefore she loveth much — The fruit of her having had much forgiven. It should carefully be observed here, that her love is mentioned as the effect and evidence...