Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Luke 19:44
Thy children] i.e. thy inhabitants.
The time of thy visitation] i.e. the time of Christ's ministry.
Thy children] i.e. thy inhabitants.
The time of thy visitation] i.e. the time of Christ's ministry.
Verse 44. _THE TIME OF THY VISITATION._] That is, the time of God's gracious offers of mercy to thee. This took in all the time which elapsed from the preaching of John the Baptist to the coming of th...
HE WEPT OVER IT - Showing his compassion for the guilty city, and his strong sense of the evils that were about to come upon it. See the notes at Matthew 23:37. As he entered the city he passed over t...
V. IN JERUSALEM -- CHAPTER 19:28-21:38 CHAPTER 19:28-48 _ 1. The Triumphal Entry in Jerusalem. (Luke 19:28 .)_ 2. Weeping over Jerusalem. (Luke 19:41 .) 3. The Purification of the Temple. (Luke 19...
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM PREDICTED (Lk. only)._ Cf._ the words of Jesus to the daughters of Jerusalem, Luke 23:28. The passage takes the place of the withering of the fig-tree narrated by Mk. and Mt., wh...
THE GUEST OF THE MAN WHOM ALL MEN DESPISED (Luke 19:1-10)...
When Jesus had come near, and when he saw the city, he wept over it. "Would that, even today, he said, "you recognised the things which would give you peace! But as it is, they are hidden from your ey...
LAY. level(and dash). Compare Septuagint, Psalms 137:9; Hosea 10:14. CHILDREN. App-108. WITHIN. Greek. _en._ App-104. ONE STONE, &c.. stone upon (Greek. _epi._ App-104.) stone. BECAUSE. the reason...
_shall lay thee even with the ground_ Titus, if we may trust Josephus, accomplished this prophecy wholly against his will, being driven to the utter subversion and destruction of the city, by the desp...
ἘΔΑΦΙΟΥ͂ΣΊΝ ΣΕ. Titus, if we may trust Josephus, accomplished this prophecy wholly against his will, being driven to the utter subversion and destruction of the city, by the desperate obstinacy of the...
JESUS WEEPING OVER JERUSALEM...
41. And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42. Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong to your peace! but now they are hid from...
ΈΔΑΦΙΟΎΣΙΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΈΔΑΦΊΖΩ (G1474) разбивать о землю, сравнивать с землей (Geldenhuys; NTNT, 74). ΆΦΉΣΟΥΣΙΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ (G17) покидать. Сообщают, что когда Тит въезжал в пр...
BECAUSE THOU KNEWEST NOT THE TIME, &C.— Our Lord here assigns the cause of the destructionof Jerusalem, and her children; it was because that when God visited them by his Son,—the Seed of Abraham and...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Peace (Luke 19:41-44) 41 And when he drew near and saw the city he wept over it,42saying, Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace! But now they are...
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. AND SHALL LAY TH...
44 Compare Mic_3:12; Mat_24:2. 45-48 Compare Mat_21:12-17; Mar_11:11; Mar_11:15-19. 45 His kingdom will be a combination of church and state and He will be the Head of both. Hence He not only presen...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 19 JESUS AND ZACCHAEUS 19:1-10 V1 Jesus was walking through the city of Jericho. V2 The chief *tax-collector there was Zacchaeus. He was very rich. V...
AND SHALL LAY THEE EVEN WITH THE GROUND. — See Note on Matthew 24:2. What is there said of the Temple, is here repeated of the city as a whole, and describes a general demolition of everything that co...
ἐδαφιοῦσι : this verb (here only in N.T., Sept [155] several times) has both σε and τὰ τέκνα σ. for its objects and must have a meaning assigned to it suitable to each: (1) to raze to the ground in re...
_Jesus weeps at sight of the city and laments its doom_. ὡς = when, as in many places in Lk. ἔκλαυσεν ἐπʼ α., He wept aloud, like Peter (Mark 14:72). δακρύειν = to shed tears silently; for a group of...
_Pharisces murmur and Jesus weeps_, peculiar to Lk. ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχλου, from within the crowd, or on account of the crowd and what they had been saying = _prae turba_ as in Luke 19:3. Loesner cites from Ph...
THE DOOM OF THE ROYAL CITY Luke 19:41-48 Our Lord loved the city of His race; and when it finally rejected His appeals, He knew that nothing could avert its downfall. Hence His tears! Each nation, ci...
Zacchaeus was the last convert but one in the ministry of Jesus. Our Lord's method with him is very revealing. He asked for his hospitality, and after receiving it held an unrecorded conversation with...
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not (m) the time of thy visitation. (m) That is, t...
TRIUMPHANT ENTRY John 12:12-19; Matthew 21:1-11; Matthew 21:14-17; Luke 19:29-44;...
3 _d. Luke 19:41-44_. _The Lamentations of Jesus._ Jesus has reached the edge of the plateau (ὡς ἤγγισεν); the holy city lies before His view (ἰδὼν τὴν πόλιν). What a day would it be for it, if the ba...
FIRST CYCLE: THE ENTRY OF JESUS INTO JERUSALEM, LUKE 19:28-44. This narrative embraces: 1 _st._ The preparations for the entry (Luke 19:28-36); 2 _d._ The joy of the disciples and of the multitude on...
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thi...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
_TIMES OF VISITATION_ ‘Thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.’ Luke 19:44 There is indeed nothing so saddening to the mind as the thought of great opportunities unrecognised and unused. Wheth...
The history of His last approach to Jerusalem and intercourse with it now commences (Luke 19:35). Here then He presents Himself anew as the Son of David, and for the last time; laying on the conscienc...
AND SHALL LAY THEE EVEN WITH THE GROUND,.... Beat down all the houses in it, the stately edifices, and even the temple itself; Matthew 24:2 AND THY CHILDREN WITHIN THEE; that is, the inhabitants of t...
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. Ver. 44. _One ston...
_He beheld the city and wept over it_ As he drew nigh he looked on the city, and, notwithstanding he had already met with much ill usage from its inhabitants, and was at this very juncture to be put t...
THY CHILDREN; the inhabitants of the city. ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER; Titus, their conqueror, caused the very ground to be ploughed up, in fulfilment of this declaration. THE TIME OF THY VISITATION; th...
AND SHALL LAY THEE EVEN WITH THE GROUND AND THY CHILDREN WITHIN THEE; AND THEY SHALL NOT LEAVE IN THEE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER, BECAUSE THOU KNEWEST NOT THE TIME OF THY VISITATION. Jesus continued on H...
Christ's lament over Jerusalem:...
ZACCHAEUS RECEIVING THE LORD JESUS (vs.1-10) There was yet another man to be rescued from Jericho, the city of the curse (Joshua 6:26). The Lord, in faithful grace, passed through that city, an avail...
41-48 Who can behold the holy Jesus, looking forward to the miseries that awaited his murderers, weeping over the city where his precious blood was about to be shed, without seeing that the likeness...
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Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V He therefore charged us Himself to fast these six days on account of the impiety and transgression of the Jews, commanding us withal to bewail over them, and...
Luke 19:44 and G2532 level G1474 (G5692) you G4571 and G2532 your G4675 children G5043 within G1722 you...
THE RESPONSE OF THE PHARISEES: GOD'S COMING JUDGMENT ON JERUSALEM (19:39-46). It was not to be expected that this hearty welcome of Jesus would please the Pharisees. Perhaps they were afraid of the re...
“For the days will come on you, when your enemies will cast up a bank about you, and surround you, and keep you in on every side, and will dash you to the ground, and your children within you, and the...
Luke agrees closely with the other Evangelists in the account of the entry to Jerusalem. He mentions in addition a murmur of the Pharisees and our Lord's reply (Luke 19:39-40), as well as the fact tha...
Luke 19:41-44. OUR LORD WEEPS OVER JERUSALEM. This incident is related by Luke alone, although similar to Matthew 23:37-39....
Luke 19:44. SHALL DASH TO THE GROUND THEE. The word here used has this sense in the LXX., and it is more appropriate here, since it is applied to THY CHILDREN WITHIN THEE. The ‘children' are the inhab...
SHALL DASH TO THE GROUND (εδαφιουσιν). Attic future of εδαφιζω, to beat level, to raze to the ground, a rare verb from εδαφος, bottom, base, ground (Acts 22:7), here alone in the N.T.BECAUSE (ανθ...
Luke 19:44 To the account which St. Matthew gives of our Lord's entry into Jerusalem, St. Luke adds the passage of which these words are part. Let us take them home to ourselves in the trial which is...
Luke 19:1. And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. And he sought to see Jesus who he was;...
CONTENTS: Conversion of Zaccheus. Parable of the pounds. Triumphal entry. Jesus weeps over Jerusalem. Purification of the temple. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Zacchaeus, Abraham, disciples. CONCLUSION: Th...
Luke 19:11. _He spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem,_ to correct the fond error of those who thought he would reign on earth. This parable therefore differs from that of the talents, in...
WHEN HE SAW IT HE WEPT OVER IT. Only Luke gives these words. This is a lot like what Jesus predicted _in_ Matthew 24:15-22. Compare notes there. Only one other place speaks of Jesus weeping (John 11:3...
_He beheld the city, and wept over it_ CHRIST WEEPING OVER JERUSALEM I. THE EXCLAMATION OF CHRIST, AND HIS TEARS IN THEIR REJECTION TO THE GUILTY CITY. 1. He remembered days of old. On these sinner...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 19:43 DAYS WILL COME. See note on 21:5–6. A BARRICADE AROUND YOU. Earthworks constructed by the Romans. tear you down... and your chil
CHAPTER 19 VER. 1. _And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho._ S. Luke continues the account of the journey to Jerusalem. I have spoken of this in the preceding chapter, verse 35....
_And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another._ That is, shall destroy thee utterly; spoken in hyperbole, for the Roma...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 19:28. WENT BEFORE.—_I.e._, at the head of the disciples. Cf. Mark 10:32. ASCENDING.—The road from Jericho to Jerusalem is one long ascent. Luke 19:29. BETHPHAGE.—A village appa...
EXPOSITION LUKE 19:1 _Jesus lodges in the house of Zacchaeus, _"_the_ _chief among the publicans_"_ at Jericho. _This episode, which took place at Jericho just before the Lord's entry into Jerusalem...
Now Jesus has entered into Jericho (Luke 19:1). And as He is passing through the city, Behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans (Luke 19:2), The city of Jeric...
1 Kings 9:7; 1 Kings 9:8; 1 Peter 2:12; Daniel 9:24; John 3:18;...
Lay thee even with the ground (ejdafiousin). Only here in New Testament. Primarily, to beat level, like a threshing - floor or pavement. The Septuagint uses it in the sense of dashing down to the grou...
THE MAGNIFICAT TO THE KING Luke 19:28 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Step by step Christ moved on fulfilling prophecy. The whole life of the Lord Jesus Christ, from the cradle to the ascension, was a marvel...
And thy children within thee — All the Jews were at that time gathered together, it being the time of the passover. They shall not leave in thee one stone upon another — Only three towers were left st...