Verse Luke 13:23. _ARE THERE FEW THAT BE SAVED?_] A question either of _impertinence_ or _curiosity_, the answer to which can profit no man. The grand question is, _Can_ I _be saved_? Yes. _How? Stri...
THEN SAID ONE - Who this was does not appear. It is probable that he was not one of the disciples, but one of the Jews, who came either to perplex him, or to involve him in a controversy with the Phar...
CHAPTER 13 __ 1. The Necessity of Repentance. (Luke 13:1 .) 2. The Barren Fig Tree. (Luke 13:6) 3. The Healing of a Daughter of Abraham. (Luke 13:10) 4. Parable of the Mustard Seed. ...
THE NARROW ENTRANCE INTO LIFE. Parallels are found in Matthew 7:13 f., Matthew 25:11 f., Matthew 7:21; Matthew 8:11 f;...
SUFFERING AND SIN (Luke 13:1-5)...
Jesus continued to go through towns and villages, teaching and making his way to Jerusalem. "Lord, someone said to him, "are those who are to be saved few in number?" He said to them, "Keep on strivin...
LORD. App-98. A. ARE THERE. if (App-118. a) there are. BE. are being....
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...
_are there few that be saved?_ The question may naturally have arisen from the last teachings respecting the small beginnings of the Kingdom of God. There is nothing to shew whether it was suggested...
THE NARROW DOOR...
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...
ΕἸ ὈΛΊΓΟΙ ΟἹ ΣΩΖΌΜΕΝΟΙ; For εἰ introducing a dubious question see Matthew 12:10. The question may naturally have arisen from the last teachings respecting the small beginnings of the Kingdom of God. T...
Ver 22. And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23. Then said one to him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said to them, 24. Strive to enter in...
_THE STRAIT GATE AND A MESSAGE FOR HEROD -- LUKE 13:22-35:_ We do not know who it was but someone asked Jesus, "Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?" Jesus told this person that they should...
LORD, ARE THERE FEW THAT BE SAVED? &C.— Our Lord was now travelling by slow journies towards Jerusalem, beingon his way to Jordan, from the north-east parts of Judea. Somewhere on the road, probably s...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Repentance is Difficult (Luke 13:22-30) 22 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23And some one said to him, Lord, wil...
Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, THEN SAID ONE UNTO HIM, LORD, ARE THERE FEW THAT BE SAVED? This is one of those curious questions which a time of...
57-59 Compare Mat_5:25-26; Pro_25:8. 1 There is a strong natural tendency to connect calamity with sin. Hardly any great disaster occurs but someone seeks to justify it on the ground that the victims...
13:23 saved (c-13) Spared in the judgment of the nation by Messiah, so as to enter into the kingdom. 'the remnant.' See Isaiah 10:21-22 ; Acts 2:47 ....
THE GALILEANS KILLED BY PILATE. THE UNFRUITFUL FIG TREE. LAMENT OVER JERUSALEM 1-9. Three exhortations to repentance, of which the former two are based on recent events, and the third is a parable. A...
ARE THEY FEW THAT BE SAVED? Jesus does not directly reply to the question, but warns His hearers of the difficulty of obtaining salvation, of the danger of delaying repentance, and of the probable rej...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 13 PEOPLE NEED TO TURN TO GOD 13:1-9 Two incidents and a *parable all teach that people need to turn to God. They must do this so that they avoid pun...
ARE THERE FEW THAT BE SAVED? — More accurately, _that are being saved,_ or, _that are in the way of salvation._ The Greek participle is present, not perfect, and this sense should be borne in mind bot...
εἰ ὀλ. οἱ σωζ.: εἰ introduces a direct question as in Matthew 12:10 and Luke 22:49 : are those who are being saved few? πρὸς αὐτούς, to _them_, not to the questioner merely but to all present, as the...
_Are there few that be saved?_ This section is a mosaic of words found dispersed in the pages of Mt.: the _strait gate_ (Luke 13:24) in Matthew 7:14; _the pleading for admission_ (Luke 13:26-27) recal...
THE PENALTY OF NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITY Luke 13:18-30 Notice here the inward movement and the outward effect of the gospel whether in the heart or in the world of men. The garden and the kitchen, the li...
Someone brought to our Lord an account of a happening which seemed to suggest that those who suffered catastrophe are proved to be "sinners above all." He directly contradicted that view, and in that...
ARE THE SAVED FEW? Luke 13:22-29. Our Savior answers the above question in the affirmative _i.e._, that the saved are few certainly a very alarming affirmation of our Infallible Lord. Shall you and I...
“ _Then one said unto Him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And He said unto them_, 24. _Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able...
And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the stra...
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...
_A PUZZLING QUESTION_ ‘Then said one unto Him, Lord, are there few that be saved?’ Luke 13:23 This question was put to Jesus by one who met with Him as He was journeying to Jerusalem. Yet it was no...
_THE PUZZLING QUESTION ANSWERED_ ‘And He said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate.’ Luke 13:23 The question, ‘Are there few that be saved?’ drew from our Lord a wondrous answer. I. OU...
Luke 13:23._And one saith to him _Although Matthew relates this answer, as if it were immediately connected with other sentences taken out of our Lord’s sermons, yet I rather think that the occasion o...
Now, at this moment they reminded Him of a terrible judgment that had fallen upon some among them. He declares to them that neither this case, nor another which He recalls to their minds, is exception...
THEN SAID ONE UNTO HIM,.... Not one of his disciples, but one of the company, in some one of the cities or villages he passed through, or as he was in the road to Jerusalem: ARE THERE FEW THAT BE SAV...
Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, Ver. 23. _Are there few, &c._] Few received Christ in the flesh, John 1:12 : he wondered at one good Nathanael. They...
_And he went through the cities and villages_, &c. Being on his way to Jordan from the northeast parts of Peræa; _teaching_ Wheresoever he came; _journeying toward Jerusalem_ To which he had now begun...
THEN SAID ONE UNTO HIM, LORD, ARE THERE FEW THAT BE SAVED? AND HE SAID UNTO THEM,...
Entering in at the strait gate:...
REPENT OR PERISH (vs.1-9) This chapter shows that righteousness by itself provides no hope for man, but presses upon us the solemn lesson of repentance. Thus it prepares the way for Chapter s 14 and...
23-30 Our Saviour came to guide men's consciences, not to gratify their curiosity. Ask not, How many shall be saved? But, Shall I be one of them? Not, What shall become of such and such? But, What sh...
OLBGrk; Ver. 23,24. Our Saviour hath told us, MATTHEW 7:14, that STRAIT IS THE GATE, AND NARROW IS THE WAY, THAT LEADETH to eternal life, and FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT. Upon this this exhortation is f...
Luke 13:23 Then G1161 one G5100 said G2036 (G5627) to G4314 Him G846 Lord G2962 few G1487...
THE CALL TO ENTER AND BE SAVED (13:23-24). This appeal, following the description of how the Kingly Rule of God will spread, parallels the descriptions of the Galileans and men of Siloam who perished....
‘And one said to him, “Lord, are the ones who are being saved few?” This is the first outright use of the word ‘saved' in the main body of Luke apart from in a context where it can have a double meani...
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...
TIME. We identify the journey here spoken of (Luke 13:22), with the last journey from Perea to Jerusalem, and accept the order of Luke in the following Chapter s as accurate. Some think that it is the...
Luke 13:23. AND ONE SAID. This _may_ have been a professed disciple, but scarcely an earnest follower, since the tone of our Lord's reply forbids this. It is still more probable that he was a Jew in t...
ARE THEY FEW THAT BE SAVED? (ε ολιγο ο σωζομενοι;). Note use of ε as an interrogative which can be explained as ellipsis or as ει=η (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 1024). This was an academic theological...
SAVED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
Luke 13:18. _Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?_ For men learn much by resemblances, and the things which are seen are frequently helpful to us in...
Luke 13:11. _And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him,...
Luke 13:10. _And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath, And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise li...
Luke 13:6. _He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none._ It was a fig tree, a fruit-bearing tree by profess...
CONTENTS: Parable of barren fig tree. Woman loosed from her infirmity. Parable of mustard seed and leaven. Jesus teaching on way to Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Galileans, Pilate, infirm woman, rule...
Luke 13:1. _There were some present at that season_ of the passover, _that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their_ _sacrifices._ Though this might be blood for blood, yet...
SIR, WILL JUST A FEW PEOPLE BE SAVED? This question is often asked. Jesus never answers it, but tells each one to make sure of his own salvation. [See the Redeemed in Eternity pictured in Revelation 7...
_Lord, are there few that be saved?_ UNPRACTICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT RELIGION The man that asked this question has long been dead, but the character lives, and it is not among the rarest exhibitions that...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 13:23 For a similar question, see Luke 18:26. ⇐...
CHAPTER 13 VER. 1. _Whose blood Pilate mingled._ That is, whom while they were sacrificing in Mount Gerizim in Samaria, Pilate slew. He slew them that their blood might be mingled with the blood of th...
_Then said one unto Him, Lord, are there few that be saved?_ Christ answered in the affirmative that few should be saved, as S. Luke signifies and S. Matt. plainly states, Matthew 7:14. Isaiah speaks...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 13:22. WENT THROUGH CITIES, etc.—Not a direct journey. TO JERUSALEM.—The last journey through Peræa to Jerusalem. Luke 13:23. THEN SAID ONE.—Probably a Jew (see Luke 13:28); he...
EXPOSITION LUKE 13:1 _Signs of the times. The Lord continues his solemn warnings. Israel pictured in the parable of the barren fig tree._ LUKE 13:1 There were present at that season some that told...
Now there were present at that season (Luke 13:1) And, of course, now Luke may have gone on in a period of time. We don't know how much time elapsed between verse Luke 13:59 of chapter 12, and Luke 13...
Acts 1:7; Acts 1:8; John 21:21; John 21:22; Luke 12:13;...