3. _The Sending of the Seventy. Disciples: Luke 10:1-24_. Though Jesus proceeded slowly from city to city, and from village to village, He had but little time to devote to each place. It was therefore of great moment that He should everywhere find His arrival prepared for, minds awakened, hearts exp... [ Continue Reading ]
1 _st. The Sending_, Luke 10:1-16. VER. 1. _The Mission._ ᾿Αναδείκνυμι, _to put in view;_ and hence, _to elect_ and _install_ (Luke 1:80); here, _to designate._ The word _instituer_ (Crampon) would wrongly give a permanent character to this mission. Schleiermacher and Meyer think that by the καὶ ἑτέ... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Discourse._ It falls into two parts: Instructions for the mission (Luke 10:2-12), and warnings to the cities of Galilee (Luke 10:13-16). The instructions first explain the reason of this mission (Luke 10:2); then the conduct to be observed on setting out and during the journey (Luke 10:3-4), a... [ Continue Reading ]
VERS. 3, 4. “ _Go your ways; behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way._ ” They are to set out just as they are, weak and utterly unprovided. The first characteristic of the messengers of Jesus is confidence. Jesus, who gi... [ Continue Reading ]
VERS. 5, 6. “ _And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if the (a) son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again._ ” The pres. εἰσέρχησθε (Byz.) expresses better than the aor. (Alex.) that the entrance and the salutation a... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house._ 8 _And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:_ 9 _And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say_, 11 _Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you._ 12 _But... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes._ 14 _But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you._ 15 _An... [ Continue Reading ]
2 _d. The Return: Luke 10:17-24_. Jesus had appointed a rendezvous for His disciples at a fixed place. From the word ὑπέστρεψαν, _they returned_ (Luke 10:17), it would even appear that the place was that from which He had sent them. Did He await them there, or did He in the interval take some other... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Joy of Jesus._ We reach a point in the life of the Saviour, the exceptional character of which is expressly indicated by the first words of the narrative, _in that same hour._ Jesus has traced to their goal the lines of which His disciples discern as yet only the beginning. He has seen in spiri... [ Continue Reading ]
VERS. 21, 22. _In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I praise Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in Thy sight._ 22 _All things are delivered to... [ Continue Reading ]
VER. 22. The words, _And He turned Him unto His disciples_, which are read here by several Mjj., are in vain defended by Tischendorf and Meyer. They are not authentic. How indeed could we understand this στραφείς, _having turned Himself?_ Turned, Meyer explains, turned from His Father, to whom He ha... [ Continue Reading ]
VERS. 23 AND 24. “ _And He turned Him unto His disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:_ 24 _For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and ha... [ Continue Reading ]
4. _The Conversation with the Scribe, and the Parable of the Samaritan: Luke 10:25-37_. Jesus slowly continues His journey, stopping at each locality. The most varied scenes follow one another without internal relation, and as circumstances bring them. Weizsäcker, starting from the assumption that t... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Priest and the Levite._ Lightfoot has proved that the Rabbins did not, in general, regard as their neighbours those who were not members of the Jewish nation. Perhaps the subject afforded matter for learned debates in their schools. The word πλήσιον, being without article here, might be taken i... [ Continue Reading ]
_The good Samaritan._ How is such love to be attained? This would have been the question put by the scribe, had be been in the state of soul which Paul describes Romans 7, and which is the normal preparation for faith. He would have confessed his impotence, and repeated the question in a yet deeper... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Samaritan._ For the sake of contrast, Jesus chooses a Samaritan, a member of that half Gentile people who were separated from the Jews by an old national hatred. In the matter about which priests are ignorant, about which the scribe is still disputing, this simple and right heart sees clearly... [ Continue Reading ]
VERS. 36, 37. _The Moral._ The question with which Jesus obliges the scribe to make application of the parable may seem badly put. According to the theme of discussion: “Who is my neighbour?” (Luke 10:29), it would seem that He should have asked: Whom, then, wilt thou regard as thy neighbour to guid... [ Continue Reading ]
_Martha's Complaint._ It is probably the indefinite expression of Luke, _into a certain village_, which John means to define by the words: _Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha_, Luke 11:1; as also the words of Luke 5:39, _which sat at Jesus' feet_, seem to be alluded to in those others:... [ Continue Reading ]
5. _Martha and Mary: Luke 10:38-42_. Here is one of the most exquisite scenes which Gospel tradition has preserved to us; it has been transmitted by Luke alone. What surprises us in the narrative is, the place which it occupies in the middle of a journey through Galilee. On the one hand, the express... [ Continue Reading ]
VERS. 41, 42. _The Answer._ Jesus replies to the reproach of Martha by charging her with exaggeration in the activity which she is putting forth. If she has so much trouble, it is because she wishes it. Μεριμνᾷν, _to be careful_, refers to moral preoccupation; τυρβάζεσθαι, _to be troubled_, to exter... [ Continue Reading ]