Divine grace in the heart may at first be small and feeble; men may hardly be able to perceive it; but by a proper use of the means, under the influences of the Holy Spirit, it will increase till its manifestations shall become visible to all.
LUKE 13:19 eivj de,ndron {B} Although copyists may have deleted me,ga to harmonize Luke with the prevailing text of Matthew ( Matthew 13:32), it is much more probable that, in the interests of...
See these parables explained in the notes at Matthew 13:31....
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. ...
A WOMAN HEALED ON THE SABBATH. (Lk. only; _cf. Luke 6:1_). Loisy is too fanciful in connecting this section with what precedes by suggesting that as the barren tree stands for unrepentant Israel so th...
So Jesus said to them, "To what is the kingdom of God like, and to what will I compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and cast into his garden; and it grew until it became a...
SUFFERING AND SIN (Luke 13:1-5)...
INTO. Greek. _eis._ App-104. WAXED. became into _(Greek. eis)._ GREAT. Omit [L]. [Tr. A] WH R. FOWLS. birds. THE AIR. the heaven. Singular. See notes on Matthew 6:9; Matthew 6:10. LODGED. nested....
_waxed a great tree_ Omit _great_with א, B, D, L, &c. The points of comparison are the sudden, secret growth, and the immense development of the kingdom of God. The mustard seed was colloquially spoke...
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...
THE MUSTARD SEED AND THE LEAVEN...
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...
ΕἸΣ ΚΗ͂ΠΟΝ ἙΑΥΤΟΥ͂. Into his own garden, where he could bestow special care upon it. “The vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the House of Israel.” Isaiah 5:7. ἘΓΈΝΕΤΟ ΕἸΣ ΔΈΝΔΡΟΝ. Omit _great_ with אBDL...
VER 18. THEN SAID HE, TO WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD LIKE? AND WHEREUNTO SHALL I RESEMBLE IT? 19. IT IS LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED, WHICH A MAN TOOK, AND CAST INTO HIS GARDEN; AND IT GREW, AND WAXED...
_PARABLES OF MUSTARD SEED AND LEAVEN -- LUKE 13:18-21:_ Jesus described the Kingdom of heaven as when a person planted a mustard seed in a garden. The seed grows as big as a tree and birds nest in its...
ΚΌΚΚΟΣ (G2848) зерно, ΣΙΝΆΠΕΩΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΣΊΝΑΠΙ (G4615) горчица (_см._ Matthew 13:31). ΛΑΒΏΝ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) брать, ΈΒΑΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._...
A GREAT TREE;— _A great plant,_ or _shrub;_ another of the evangelists calls it λαχανος, _the greatest among herbs._ See Matthew 13:32....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Repentance in Destiny (Luke 13:18-21) 18 He said therefore, What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? 19It is like a grain of mustard seed which a...
Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? For the exposition of this portion, see the notes at Matthew 13:31, with Remarks....
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...
THE MUSTARD SEED AND THE LEAVEN (Matthew 13:31; Mark 4:30). See on Mt....
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...
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...
(18-21) THEN SAID HE, UNTO WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD LIKE? — See Notes on Matthew 13:31. The first impression with most readers, in the absence of any apparent trace of sequence, is that we have an i...
_The parables of the mustard seed and the leaven_ (Matthew 13:31-33; Mark 4:30-32). Lk. may have introduced these parables here either because the joy of the people was in his view the occasion of the...
κῆπον, garden, more exact indication of place than in Mt. and Mk. δένδρον, a tree; an exaggeration, it remains an herb, though of unusually large size....
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...
(5) It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it. (5) God begins his king...
Our Lord was this mustard-seed, when he was buried in the earth; and He became a tree, when he ascended into heaven; but a tree that overshadowed the whole creation, in the branches of which the birds...
THE MUSTARD-SEED AND THE LEAVEN Luke 13:18-21 “ _Then He said_, _To what is the kingdom of God like_, _and to what shall I liken it_? _It is like the seed of mustard_, _which a man_, _having taken_, _...
11. _The Progress of the Kingdom: Luke 13:10-21_. During this journey, as throughout His whole ministry, Jesus did not fail to frequent the synagogues on the Sabbath days. The present narrative introd...
Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tr...
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...
_THE GOSPEL IN THE WORLD_ ‘Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed.’ Luke 13:18 The parable of the mustard seed is intended to sh...
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...
IT IS LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED,.... Both for its smallness at first, and its after increase; wherefore both the Evangelists Matthew and Mark observe, that it "is the least of all seed": which is t...
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it. Ver. 19. See Matthew 13:31...
_Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like?_ After the Lord had thus silenced the ruler of the synagogue, and while he observed the rejoicings of the people, he reflected with pleasure on the...
IT IS LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD-SEED, WHICH A MAN TOOK AND CAST INTO HIS GARDEN; AND IT GREW AND WAXED A GREAT TREE; AND THE FOWLS OF THE AIR LODGED IN THE BRANCHES OF IT....
PARABLES AND TEACHINGS. The parables of the mustard-seed and the leaven:...
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...
18-22 Here is the progress of the gospel foretold in two parables, as in Luke 13:13. The kingdom of the Messiah is the kingdom of God. May grace grow in our hearts; may our faith and love grow exceed...
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Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I Wherefore He Himself, declaring Himself very beautifully, likened Himself to a grain of mustard-seed;[257] Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V T...
Luke 13:19 is G2076 (G5748) like G3664 mustard G4615 seed G2848 which G3739 man G444 took G2983 ...
“It is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his own garden, and it grew, and became a tree, and the birds of the heaven lodged in its branches.” Jesus then pointed out that...
THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD WILL GROW FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS JUST AS A MUSTARD SEED BECOMES A GREAT BUSH AND A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENS THE WHOLE LUMP (13:18-21). Having revealed how Jesus can loose men from S...
Luke 13:18-21. PARABLES OF THE MUSTARD SEED AND THE LEAVEN. See notes on Matthew 13:31-33. On the repetition of these parables, see note at the beginning of the section. There is an appropriate connec...
TIME. It is generally agreed that this incident belongs to the later period of our Lord's ministry, about the time of His visit to Perea (Matthew 19:1-2; Mark 10:1). The reasons for this are (1.) that...
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...
A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED (κοκκω σιναπεως). Either the _sinapis nigra_ or the _salvadora persica_, both of which have small seeds and grow to twelve feet at times. The Jews had a proverb: "Small as a...
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...
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 13:10. _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 13:11. _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,...
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...
WHAT SHALL I COMPARE IT WITH? For notes on the parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast, see Matthew 13:31-33....
_Unto what is the kingdom of God like?_ ON THE KINGDOM OF GOD The kingdom of God is an expression of various significations in the sacred volume. Sometimes is meant by it the universal dominion of th...
THREE GREAT TREES A great tree. Luke 13:19 (AV). “A great tree” that is our text this morning. I am just sorry it is not “three great trees,” for I am going to tell you this morning of three great...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 13:19 To Jesus’ audience, the MUSTARD SEED (see notes on Matt. 13:31–32; Mark 4:30) was the smallest known seed....
JESUS TELLS THE PARABLE OF THE MUSTARD SEED MATTHEW 13:31-32; MARK 4:30-32; LUKE 13:18-19; MATTHEW 13:31 Another parable put h
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...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 13:19. LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED.—So small in size as to be a proverbial comparison among the Jews for anything exceedingly small. GARDEN.— Matthew 13:31 has “field.” A GREAT...
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 15:14; Acts 2:41; Acts 21:20; Acts 4:4; Daniel 2:34;...
His garden. Properly, as Rev., his own [ε α υ τ ο υ] where he could personally observe and tend it. Great tree. The best texts omit great. Birds. See on ch. Luke 9:58. Branches [κ λ α δ ο ι ς]. See...