Luke 12:39 ouvk {B}
The original Lukan text seems to have lacked evgrhgo,rhsen a'n kai,. Scribes would have been almost certain to assimilate the shorter reading (preserved in î75 a* al) to the longer reading found in the parallel passage ( Matthew 24:43), whereas there is no good reason that would account for the deletion of the words had they been present originally.
See the notes at Matthew 24:42. SECOND WATCH - See the notes at Matthew 14:25....
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Warning Against Hypocrisy. (Luke 12:1)_ 2. Encouragements. (Luke 12:4) 3. Warning Against Covetousness. (Luke 12:15) 4. Warning Against Anxiety. ...
THE FAITHFUL STEWARD (Matthew 24:45 *). Luke 12:39 is peculiar to Lk. The answer to Peter's question is that the injunctions to watchfulness are particularly applicable to the Twelve. This is emphasiz...
THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
"Let your loins be girt and your lamps burning. Be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that, when he comes and knocks, they will open to him immediately....
GOODMAN. master. App-98. BROKEN. dug. Occurs only here; Matthew 6:19; Matthew 6:20; Matthew 24:43....
39. _this know_ Rather, THIS YE KNOW. _the goodman of the house_ An archaic expression for the master of the house, the _paterfamilias._It is said to be a corruption of the Saxon _gumman_-a man," _go...
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...
ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ … ΓΙΝΏΣΚΕΤΕ. ‘This ye know.’ Ὁ ΟἸΚΟΔΕΣΠΌΤΗΣ. “Goodman” is an archaic expression for the master of the house, the _paterfamilias_. It is said to be a corruption of the Saxon _gumman_, ‘a man,’...
LESSONS OF TRUSTFULNESS (22–32), ALMSGIVING (33, 34), AND FAITHFUL WATCHFULNESS (35–48). THE SEARCHING EFFECT OF CHRIST’S WORK (49–53)...
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 35. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36. And you yourselves like to men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they...
ΓΙΝΏΣΚΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать, ΉΔΕΙ _plperf. ind. act. от_ ΟΊΔΑ, _см._ Luke 12:30. Ind. в _conj._ 2 типа, в котором условие противоречит факту, ΆΦΉΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ Ά...
WILL COME FORTH, AND SERVE THEM, &C.— It was usual for servants to sit at table, and for the master to wait upon them, among the Babylonians, at their feast called _Saccas;_ among the Cretans, in thei...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Action as Alertness (Luke 12:35-48) 35 Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, 36and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage...
And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. AND THIS KNOW, THAT IF THE GO...
39 As most of the houses in Palestine were built of sun-dried clay, or adobe, a thief could best effect an entrance by digging his way through the walls. They literally burrowed their way into a house...
THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES. THE RICH FOOL 1-12. Jesus warns His followers against Pharisaic hypocrisy, and exhorts them to be courageous in face of opposition. This speech is not unsuitable to the co...
EXHORTATION TO VIGILANCE. The greater part of it appears also (and most appropriately) in Matthew 24. The apostles and other ministers of the word are chiefly addressed, though there is a lesson for a...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 JESUS WARNS AND ENCOURAGES HIS *DISCIPLES 12:1-12 1 WARNING ABOUT THE FALSE LIVES OF THE *PHARISEES 12:1-3 V1 Thousands of people had gathered. T...
AND THIS KNOW, THAT IF THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE... — Better, “if the _master_ of the house.” See Notes on Matthew 24:43, where the words are almost identical....
_The thief_ (Matthew 24:43-44). A new figure is now employed to give pictorial embodiment to the counsel: be ever ready. The master returning from a wedding is replaced by a thief whose study it is to...
EVER ON THE WATCH Luke 12:35-48 The Lord leads our thoughts on to His advent, when He will call His servants to account. The day may pass into the evening, the evening into the night, and the night m...
Knowing that the enmity of the rulers against Him would proceed also against His disciples, He told them not to be afraid of those who kill the body, remembering ever their Father's care, as revealed...
Some have imagined that the devil, our implacable enemy, is designated by the thief, and our souls by the house, and man by the householder: yet this interpretation does not agree with what follows; f...
SOLICITUDE Luke 12:22-31. This item of our Savior's discourse is so identical with a paragraph in His Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6), that I forbear quotation, the substantial repetition of the Great...
3 _d. To the Disciples: Luke 12:22-40_. Disengagement from earthly goods. The following exhortations suppose faith. The believer should renounce the pursuit of earthly goods: 1. From a feeling of enti...
VERS. 39 AND 40. _Parable of the Thief._ “ _And this ye know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be br...
(32) Fear not little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. (33) Sell that ye have, and give alms: provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens t...
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...
chapter 12 puts the disciples into this place of testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost, and with the world opposed to them, after the Lord's departure. It is the word and the Holy Ghost, instead of...
AND THIS KNOW,.... The Ethiopic version reads, "this only know"; only take notice of this one thing, and it may be of some use to direct you in your conduct how to behave during the absence of your Lo...
And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. Ver. 39. See Matthew 24:43 ....
_And if he shall come in the second or third watch_, &c. This included all the time from nine in the evening to three in the morning; and was as if he had said, whether he come early or late. Here our...
The faithful servant. Matthew 24:42-51....
GOOD MAN OF THE HOUSE; master of the house....
Christian alertness:...
AND THIS KNOW, THAT IF THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN WHAT HOUR THE THIEF WOULD COME, HE WOULD HAVE WATCHED, AND NOT HAVE SUFFERED HIS HOUSE TO BE BROKEN THROUGH....
THE PEOPLE WARNED AGAINST FALSE LEADERS (vs.1-12) At a time when the crowd was extremely large, the Lord addressed His disciples "first of all," warning them to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees,...
22-40 Christ largely insisted upon this caution not to give way to disquieting, perplexing cares, Matthew 6:25. The arguments here used are for our encouragement to cast our care upon God, which is t...
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Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV In the next parable also he makes a flagrant mistake, when he assigns to the person of the Creator that "thief, whose hour, if the father of the family had only kno...
Luke 12:39 But G1161 know G1097 (G5720) this G5124 that G3754 if G1487 house G3617 known G1492 ...
WHAT THE ATTITUDE OF HIS DISCIPLES SHOULD BE (12:35-40). The parable that follows confirms that Jesus will have been previously laying out the background to them (we know so little of the much that He...
THE SECOND PARABLE - THE THIEF BREAKING IN (12:39). “But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have left his house to...
Luke 12:39. BUT KNOW THIS, etc. A new figure (of the thief in the right) brings out the unexpected return. See on Matthew 24:43-44....
CONTENTS. A continuation of the discourse. Luke 12:35-48 contain exhortations to _watchfulness;_ the difference between the faithful and unfaithful servant suggests a difficulty in the way of faithful...
Luke 12:35-48. EXHORTATIONS TO WATCHFULNESS. The connection is with Luke 12:32: ‘It is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom,' let that free you from anxiety; but let it be the motive to...
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...
THE THIEF (ο κλεπτης). The change here almost makes a new parable to illustrate the other, the parable of the housebreaking (verses Luke 12:39; Luke 12:40) to illustrate the parable of the waiting s...
Luke 12:35. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, t...
Luke 12:22. _And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the...
Luke 12:13. _And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?_ Our Lord...
Luke 12:13. _And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me, And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?_ Our Lord...
In this chapter, our Saviour dispels the fears of his disciples concerning temporal things, and especially their fear of persecution and their fear of want. Luke 12:1. In the mean time, when there we...
CONTENTS: Jesus warns of leaven of the Pharisees. Parable of the rich fool. Parable of the second coming. Parable of the steward and his servants. Christ, the divider of men. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disci...
Luke 12:1. _There were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek is myriads, or ten thousands of people. Luke 12:5. _Power to cast into hell._ The Greek is Gehenna, as on Isaiah...
BE READY FOR WHATEVER COMES. People in the East wore long robes, which had to be tucked under their belts to get ready to travel. See notes on Matthew 24:42-44. AND YOUR LAMPS LIT. See notes on Matthe...
_Men that wait for their Lord_ OF THE BELIEVER’S READINESS FOR THE COMING OF CHRIST This readiness stands in watchfulness and fidelity. I. WATCHFULNESS. 1. Its nature. 2. Its ground. The servant’...
Jesus tells about his return Matthew 24:36-51; Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36; Luke 12:39-46;...
CHAPTER 12 VER. 1. _In the mean time when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek has "the myriads of the multitude." A myriad contains exactly ten thousand, and is...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 12:35. LOINS GIRDED.—An allusion to the long robes of the East, which those who wear them must bind up before they engage in any active employment. LIGHTS BURNING.—The same less...
EXPOSITION LUKE 12:1 _The Lord_,_ after leaving the Pharisee_'_s house_,_ speaks at great length to a numerous crowd waiting for him_,_ addressing his words principally to his own disciples. _The for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 12. We are dealing with the final month in the ministry of Jesus. He has returned to Jerusalem. He will soon be leaving Jerusalem to go down to th...
1 Thessalonians 5:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; 2 Peter 3:10; Matthew 24:43;...
What hour [π ο ι α ω ρ α]. See on Matthew 24:42. Would come. Lit., cometh. See on Matthew 24:43. Broken through. See on Matthew 6:19....