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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Luke 13:2

Luke 13:2. Suppose ye? Our Lord perceives their reasoning, and first corrects the mistake they made, adding an appropriate warning.

Were sinners. Our Lord does not deny that they were sinners; but only that their fate proved them to be especially great sinners. Job's friends made the same mistake. The verse directly opposes the very common habit of calling every calamity that befalls another a ‘judgment.' Such a verdict has the air of piety, but it is generally the result of uncharitableness. The next verse shows that our Lord so regarded it.

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See also Luke 13:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SUPPOSE YE ... - From this answer it would appear that they supposed that the fact that these men had been slain in this manner proved that they were very great sinners. I TELL YOU, NAY - Jesus assur...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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. ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXHORTATIONS TO REPENTANCE. The theme of Luke 12:57 is continued and illustrated by references to two incidents and by a parable. The section is peculiar to Lk. A company of Galilean pilgrims had come...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    SUFFERING AND SIN (Luke 13:1-5)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    At this time some men came and told Jesus about the Galilaeans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. "Do you think," he answered, "that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Gali...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    JESUS (App-98. X). Read "He" with [L]. Tr.. WI R. WERE. happened to be. SINNERS. defaulters. Connecting it with Luke 12:58. ABOVE. Greek _para._ App-104. SUFFERED. have suffered....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _were sinners above all the Galileans_ The -were" is literally, -became," i.e. -stamped themselves as," -proved themselves to be." We trace a similar mistaken -supposition" in the question of the disc...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    Luke 13:1-9. ACCIDENTS AND JUDGMENTS. THE BARREN FIG-TREE...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ἉΜΑΡΤΩΛΟῚ ΠΑΡᾺ ΠΆΝΤΑΣ ΤΟῪΣ ΓΑΛΙΛΑΊΟΥΣ ἘΓΈΝΟΝΤΟ. For παρὰ in comparisons see Luke 3:13; Hebrews 1:9; Hebrews 3:3. The “were” of the A. V[275] is literally, ‘_became_,’ i.e. ‘_stamped themselves as_,’ ‘...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 1. There were present at that season some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2. And Jesus answering said to them, Suppose you that these Galilean...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _AN EXHORTATION TO REPENTANCE -- LUKE 13:1-9:_ Some people came to Jesus and told Him about Pilate killing people and mixing their blood with their sacrifices. It was a common held belief that disaste...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΆΠΟΚΡΙΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. (dep.) part. от_ ΑΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать. О семитском обороте _см._ МН, 453. ΔΟΚΕΊΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΔΟΚΈΩ (G1380) предполагать, ΠΑΡΆ (G3844) более чем. ΈΓΈΝΟΝΤΟ _ao...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SUPPOSE YE THAT THESE GALILEANS, &C.— Our Lord's hearers had insinuated a very wrong notion of Providence; for which cause he not only condemned it in the question just now mentioned, but told them ex...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Repentance Defined (Luke 13:1-9) 13 There were some present at that very time who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2And he...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? AND JESUS ANSWERING SAID UNTO THEM, SUPPOSE YE THAT THES...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WERE SINNERS] see on John 9:3....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SUPPOSE YE THAT THESE GALILÆANS ...? — The tale had probably been told with a conviction, expressed or implied, that the massacre had been a special judgment for some special and exceptional guilt. Ou...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ἀποκριθεὶς : Jesus answered to an implied question. Those who told the story expected Him to make some remarks on it; not such doubtless as He did make. δοκεῖτε, think ye; probably that was just what...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _The Galilean tragedy_, peculiar to Lk., as is the greater part of what follows, on to Luke 18:14....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BOTH REPENTANCE AND FRUITFULNESS REQUIRED Luke 13:1-9 Our Lord did not hesitate to hang great lessons on passing events. It is a great art to lead men's thoughts from the outward and transient to th...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Sinners, &c. People are naturally inclined to believe, that those who are unfortunate, and afflicted with calamities, must likewise be culpable and impious. The Jews were very much given to these sent...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    DOOM OF THE IMPENITENT Luke 13:1-5. “And there were certain ones at that time announcing to Him concerning the Galileans, whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices. And responding, He said to t...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    10. _Conversation on two Events of the Day: Luke 13:1-9_. Luke does not say that the following event took place immediately after the preceding, but only in a general way, ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ καιρῷ (Luke 13:1)...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) There were present at that season, some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. (2) And Jesus answering, said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilea...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._Do you imagine? etc. _This passage is highly useful, were it for no other reason than that this disease is almost natural to us, to be too rigorous and severe in judging of others, and too much dis...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND JESUS ANSWERING, SAID UNTO THEM,.... Neither approving, nor condemning Pilate's action; and though he allowed the Galileans to be sinners, which could not be denied, he does not bear hard upon the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? Ver. 2. _Because they suffered such things_] None out of...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _There were present at that season_ When Christ spake the foregoing words; _some that told him of the Galileans_ The followers of Judas Gaulonites, whose story Josephus has given us at large, _Antiq.,...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    The visible dealings of Providence with men in this world are no certain indications of their real character; but are suited to teach them the evil of sin, and the necessity of forsaking it, the certa...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    LAST ADMONITIONS TO REPENTANCE. The lesson of the Galilean tragedy:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND JESUS, ANSWERING, SAID UNTO THEM, SUPPOSE YE THAT THESE GALILEANS WERE SINNERS ABOVE ALL THE GALILEANS BECAUSE THEY SUFFERED SUCH THINGS?...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 Mention was made to Christ of the death of some Galileans. This tragical story is briefly related here, and is not met with in any historians. In Christ's reply he spoke of another event, which,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 13:1...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Luke 13:2 And G2532 Jesus G2424 answered G611 (G5679) said G2036 (G5627) them G846 suppose G1380 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRE HAS BEGUN TO FALL. LET THEM THEREFORE LEARN THEIR LESSON FROM IT (13:1-5). Having declared that He will cast fire on earth, preliminary examples of it are now given, one an act of the civil a...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And he answered and said to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they have suffered these things?” ' This confirms that there had been some suggestio...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    SINNERS ABOVE ALL (αμαρτωλο παρα παντας). Παρα means "beside," placed beside all the Galileans, and so beyond or above (with the accusative).HAVE SUFFERED (πεπονθασιν). Second perfect active indi...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    SINNERS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Luke 13:1 The Judgments of God. I. Our Lord does not say, Those Galileans were not sinners at all. Their sins had nothing to do with their death. Those on whom the tower fell were innocent men. He ra...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Luke 13:2 I. The folly and uncharitableness of mankind are in nothing more clearly seen than in their disposition to blame everyone who is unfortunate, and to think themselves surely in the right as l...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Luke 13:1. _There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices._ This was a matter of common town talk, so of course they bro...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled_ TEACHINGS FROM TRAGEDIES We shall miss the very point of Christ’s teaching if we suppose that he meant to lessen our sense of the inseparable connecti...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 13:1 The incidents concerning Pilate killing the GALILEANS and the fall of the TOWER IN SILOAM are not recorded elsewhere in Scripture. WHOSE BLOOD PILATE HAD MINGLED.

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye_, &c. They did suppose this, but wrongly, for God often corrects those who sin less heavily, to make them an example and a terror to others, and so inci...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 13:1. THERE WERE PRESENT.—The phrase is a peculiar one, and might be translated, “then there came up” or “arrived,” perhaps to bring tidings of this outrage. WHOSE BLOOD.—The phr...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 28:4; Job 22:5; John 9:2; Luke 13:4...

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