Withdrew [η ν υ π ο χ ω ρ ω ν]. The participle with the imperfect of the finite verb denoting something in progress, and thus corresponding to the imperfect in verse 15. The multitudes were coming together, but he was engaged in retirement and prayer, so that he was inaccessible. The word occurs only in Luke, the usual New Testament word for withdraw being ajnacwrew. See Matthew 2:12; Matthew 12:15; Mark 3:7.
17 - 26. Compare Mark 2:1-12.
Verse Luke 5:16. _AND HE WITHDREW HIMSELF INTO THE WILDERNESS_] Or rather, _He frequently withdrew into the desert_. This I believe to be the import of the original words, ην υποχωρων. He made it a f...
See the notes at Matthew 8:2....
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Miraculous Drought of Fishes. (Luke 5:1)_ 2. The Leper Healed. (Luke 5:12) 3. The Paralytic Healed. (Luke 5:17) 4. The Call of Matthew and the Feast ...
THE HEALING OF A LEPER (Mark 1:40 *, Matthew 8:1 *). Lk. keeps closely to Mk., but adds (Luke 5:16) that Jesus in His retirement gave Himself to prayer. It is characteristic of him also to speak of Je...
THE CONDITIONS OF A MIRACLE (Luke 5:1-11)...
Jesus withdrew into the desert places and he continued in prayer. On a certain day he was teaching and, sitting listening, there were Pharisees and experts in the law who had come from every village i...
WITHDREW. continued withdrawn. Peculiar to Luke here, and Luke 9:10. INTO. in. Greek. _en._ App-104. PRAYED. Greek. _proseuchomai._ App-134. The second recorded occasion in Luke; see Luke 3:21....
The Healing of a Leper 12. _a certain city_ Probably the village of Hattîn, for we learn from St Matthew's definite notice that this incident took place on descending from the Mount of Beatitudes (_Ku...
_he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed_ Rather, BUT HE HIMSELF WAS RETIRING IN THE WILDERNESS AND PRAYING. St Mark (Mark 1:45) gives us the clearest view of the fact by telling us that t...
ΑΥ̓ΤῸΣ ΔῈ ἮΝ ὙΠΟΧΩΡΩ͂Ν ἘΝ ΤΑΙ͂Σ ἘΡΉΜΟΙΣ. ‘But He Himself was retiring in the wilderness and praying.’ St Mark (Mark 1:45) gives us the clearest view of the fact by telling us that the leper blazoned a...
THE HEALING OF A LEPER...
Ver 12. And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean. 13. And...
ΎΠΟΧΩΡΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΎΠΟΧΩΡΈΩ (G5298) удаляться, тайком ускользать (RWP). Part, в перифр. конструкции, ΠΡΟΣΕΥΧΌΜΕΝΟΣPRAES. _med. (dep.) part. от_ ΠΡΟΣΕΎΧΟΜΑΙ (G4336) молиться. Part, в пери...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Jesus Heals a Leper Scripture_ Luke 5:12-16 And it came to pass, while he was in one of the cities, behold, a man full of leprosy: and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, an...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Cleansing Men (Luke 5:12-26) 12 While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and besought him, Lord, if...
And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. For the...
8-11 Compare Mat_4:19-22; Mar_1:20. 11 This is the marvelous manner in which He recalls them. In a few minutes He gives them a preview of the mission which they are to fill, and then summons them to...
5:16 praying. (e-13) Lit. 'And (or 'But') _ he_ was withdrawing himself in the deserts and praying.' He was at that time waiting, occupied with prayer....
MIRACULOUS DRAUGHT OF FISHES. THE PALSIED MAN 1-11. First miraculous draught of fishes (peculiar to Lk). Many critics identify this incident with that recorded in Matthew 4:18 and Mark 1:16. But there...
THE LEPER CLEANSED (Matthew 8:1; Mark 1:40). See on Mt....
AND PRAYED] Peculiar to Lk, who more often than any other evangelist mentions our Lord's prayers....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS CALLS THE FIRST *DISCIPLES 5:1-11 V1 The people crowded round Jesus because they were so eager to hear God’s message. He was standing by the...
HE WITHDREW HIMSELF INTO THE WILDERNESS. — Literally, _into the wildernesses,_ agreeing with St. Mark’s “in desert places,” now in one part, now in another, of the unenclosed, uncultivated country. Th...
(12-16) A MAN FULL OF LEPROSY. — See Notes on Matthew 8:2. The precise description is peculiar to, and characteristic of, St. Luke, as is also the man’s “falling on his face.” The latter is interestin...
CHAPTER 11 CONCERNING PRAYER. WHEN the Greeks called man ό ανθρωπος, or the "uplooking one," they did but crystallize in a word what is a universal fact, the religious instinct of humanity. Everywher...
_The leper_ (Matthew 8:1-4; Mark 1:40-45)....
To retirement mentioned in Mk. Lk. adds _prayer_ (προσευχόμενος); frequent reference to this in Lk....
CLEANSING, POWER AND PARDON Luke 5:12-26 Jesus did not hesitate to touch the leper, because He could no more be polluted by uncleanness than could a ray of light by passing through a fetid atmospher...
Four of Jesus' disciples, already called into the relation of discipleship, are here called more definitely to service. Taking command of their vessel, to which in all probability they had returned wi...
Christ did not stand in need of this retirement, since, being God, he was free from every stain, and likewise present in every place. But, by this his conduct, he wished to teach us the time most prop...
Matthew 13:2-4; MARK 1:40-45; & LUKE 5:12-16. MARK: “And a leper comes to Him, calling upon Him, and kneeling down before Him, and saying to Him, If You may wish, You are able to cleanse me. And Jesus...
1 _st. Luke 5:15-16_. While seeking to calm the excitement produced by His miracles, Jesus endeavoured also to preserve His energies from any spiritual deterioration by devoting part of His time to me...
3. _The Paralytic: Luke 5:15-26_. 1 _st._ A general description of the state of the work, Luke 5:15-16; Luke 2 _d._ The cure of the paralytic, Luke 5:17
(12) And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold, a man full of leprosy; who seeing Jesus, fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. (13)...
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...
_SPIRITUAL SOLITUDE_ ‘And He withdrew Himself into the wilderness, and prayed.’ Luke 5:16 The wilderness and the mountain—the two loneliest places He could command—appear several times to have made...
Man, He was come for men. He will associate others (chapter 5) with Himself in this glorious work. He has a right to do it. If He is in grace a servant, He is so according to the full power of the Hol...
AND HE WITHDREW HIMSELF INTO THE WILDERNESS,.... Into a desert place, that he might have rest from the fatigues of preaching and healing diseases; and being alone, and free from company, might have an...
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed. Ver. 16. _And he withdrew_] Pray, if you mean to prosper....
_Behold a man full of leprosy_ Of this miracle, see the notes on Matthew 8:2, and Mark 1:45. _And he withdrew himself into the wilderness and prayed_ The original expression, ην υποχωρων εν ταις ερημο...
HE WITHDREW HIMSELF INTO THE WILDERNESS, AND PRAYED; it was his custom to do this, as the original implies, which might be rendered, He was in the habit of withdrawing himself, etc. The pure and sinle...
THE HEALING OF A LEPER AND OF A PARALYTIC. Luke 5:12 Healing a leper:...
AND HE WITHDREW HIMSELF INTO THE WILDERNESS AND PRAYED. He asked and received strength from His heavenly Father to carry on His work according to the divine will. This constant communication with God...
PETER, JAMES AND JOHN CALLED AS DISCIPLES (vs.1-11) It is good to read in verse 1 that by the Lake of Gennesaret (or Sea of Galilee) the people pressed upon the Lord Jesus, not to see miracles, but t...
12-16 This man is said to be full of leprosy; he had that distemper in a high degree, which represents our natural pollution by sin; we are full of that leprosy; from the crown of the head to the sol...
We meet with Christ often commending to us the duty of secret prayer, by his own example, as he had done by his precept, MATTHEW 6:1, and always choosing for it the most private and retired places, to...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV The sick of the palsy is healed,[281] Cyprian Treatise IV On the Lord's Prayer Nor was it only in words, but in deeds also, that the Lord taught us to pray, Himse...
Luke 5:16 So G1161 Himself G846 withdrew G2258 (G5713) G5298 (G5723) into G1722 wilderness G2048 and...
‘But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed.' While walking in the towns and cities (Luke 5:12) Jesus was constantly open to approaches by needy people, and this made it all the more necessary...
THE CLEANSING OF A SKIN DISEASED MAN (5:12-16). The cleansing of a skin diseased man by touching him is something that would have affected the ancient mind like little else. It indicated a mastery ove...
CHRONOLOGY. The occurrences mentioned in this section are detailed by Matthew and Mark. The latter (Luke 1:40 to Luke 2:22) places them in the same order, but Matthew inserts the healing of the leper...
Luke 5:12-16. HEALING OF A LEPER. ONE OF THE CITIES (Luke 5:12). Probably not Capernaum. FULL OF LEPROSY. A term of medical accuracy, probably referring to the severity of the disease in this case. O...
BUT HE WITHDREW HIMSELF IN THE DESERTS AND PRAYED (αυτος δε ην υποχωρων εν ταις ερημοις κα προσευχομενος). Periphrastic imperfects. Literally, "But he himself was with drawing in the desert places a...
Luke 5:16 I. When we read in this and in so many other passages that our blessed Lord in the days of His flesh offered prayers unto God, it greatly concerns us that we do not accept an explanation onl...
Luke 5:12. _And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy:_ What a contrast there was between these two persons, the Lord Jesus full of purity, and this man full of...
Luke 5:1. _And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, and saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone ou...
Luke 5:12. _And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean....
Luke 5:12. _And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy:_ As far gone with leprosy as he could be; thoroughly tainted, and eaten up with that loathsome disease....
CONTENTS: Miraculous draught of fishes. Healing of a leper and a paralytic. Call of Matthew. The scribes and Pharisees answered. Parables of the garment and bottles. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Simon, Ja...
Luke 5:3. _He sat down, and taught the people out of the ship._ Here he used those beautiful parables, in Matthew 13.; but Matthew's gospel being extant, St. Luke does not repeat the parables in this...
A MAN WHO WAS COVERED WITH LEPROSY. See notes on Matthew 8:1-4....
_And He withdrew Himself into the wilderness and prayed_ JESUS PRAYING What were the special reasons which led our Lord at this time to go away for prayer. I. THE NEED OF INWARD REFRESHMENT OF WHIC...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 5:16 WOULD WITHDRAW... AND PRAY could also be translated “was regularly withdrawing... and praying.” ⇐...
CHAPTER 5 VER. 6. _They inclosed a great multitude of fishes_ for Peter had said, "At Thy word I will let down the net." "Behold here the fruit and reward of obedience. Jesus did this 1. In order that...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 5:12.—St. Matthew gives a distinct note of time and place when and where this miracle was wrought: it was after the Sermon on the Mount, and as Jesus came down from the mount, th...
EXPOSITION When St. Luke compiled his Gospel, many of the circumstances connected with the early relations of the leaders of Christianity with their Founder were so well known, and had been so often r...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Luke's gospel chapter 5. The popularity of the ministry of Jesus is growing. Word is being spread around of the miracles that are being wrought by Him, and now where...
John 6:15; Luke 6:12; Mark 1:35; Mark 1:36; Mark 6:46;...
He withdrew — The expression in the original implies, that he did so frequently....
The duty of private and solitary prayer is not more strictly enjoined by our Saviour's command, than it is recommended to us by his example. Observe, 1. The duty which our holy Lord performed: PRAYER....