Blessed are they that hear the word of God. — The term thus used clearly designates here the message of the Kingdom spoken by our Lord Himself, as in the parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:20). In its wider application, it of course includes, though it must not be confined to it, the record of that spoken Word, or of subsequent revelations of the Truth in what we know as Scripture.
A CERTAIN WOMAN - One of the crowd. BLESSED IS THE WOMB ... - She thought that the “mother” of such a person must be especially happy in having such a son. YEA, RATHER BLESSED ... - Jesus admits that...
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Prayer Given to the Disciples (Luke 11:1 .)_ 2. The Friend at Midnight. (Luke 11:5) 3. Encouragement to Pray. (Luke 11:11) 4. A Demon Cast Out and the Blasphemous Accusation. ...
LUKE 11:27 F. JESUS AND HIS MOTHER. A variant of Luke 8:19 *. The introduction of feminine sentiment is characteristic of Lk. Human relationship is not the highest claim; _cf._ Matthew 15:5 f.*...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it goes through waterless places seeking for rest. And when it does not find it, it says, "I will go back to my house from which I came out." So it comes and...
_Yea rather_, _blessed are they that hear the word of God_, _and keep it_ See Luke 8:21. Our Lord invariably and systematically discouraged all attempt to exalt the merely human relationship or interc...
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...
ΜΕΝΟΥ͂Ν ΜΑΚΆΡΙΟΙ ΟἹ�. ‘_Yea truly, but_ &c.’ In classical Greek μὲν οὖν (or μενοῦνγε, _immo vero_) never begins a sentence, as it does here and in Romans 9:20; Romans 10:18. With the thought compare L...
THE WOMANLY EXCLAMATION. THE PERIL OF PRIVILEGES ABUSED...
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...
VER 27. AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE SPOKE THESE THINGS, A CERTAIN WOMAN OF THE COMPANY LIFTED UP HER VOICE, AND SAID TO HIM, BLESSED IS THE WOMB THAT BORE YOU, AND THE PAPS WHICH YOU HAVE SUCKED. 28. B...
_THE PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY BLESSED -- LUKE 11:27-36:_ People talked to Jesus about who was really blessed. Jesus got right to the point and said, "Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep...
ΜΕΝΟΎΝ (G3304) скорее. Он поправляет женщину: "то, что ты сказала, истинно, но благословение Марии состоит в том, что она разделила блаженство тех, кто слушает Слово Божье и соблюдает его" (Thrall),...
DISCOURSE: 1523 THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE TRUE CHRISTIAN Luke 11:27. _And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Praise for the Mother who Bore Him Scripture_ Luke 11:27-28 And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unt...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Perverseness (Luke 11:14-28) 14 Now he was casting out a demon that was dumb; when the demon had gone out, the dumb man spoke, and the people marveled. 15But some of them...
And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered. See the notes at Matthew 12:22. Verse 14-20 For the expo...
27 This is a delicate yet decisive thrust at the slightest tendency toward Mariolatry. Mary was indeed most blessed to be chosen to bear such a Son, but it was a physical relationship, such as He sust...
THE LORD'S PRAYER. THE SIGN OF JONAH 1-4. The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9). See on Mt. If the Lord's Prayer was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion. His version, however (as...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT PRAYER 11:1-13 1 THE PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT 11:1-4 V1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of...
μενοῦν might be confirmatory (_utique_) or corrective (_imo vero_), or a little of both; the tone of voice would show which of the two the speaker meant to be the more prominent. Correction probably w...
_The woman in the crowd_. In Lk. only, though reminding one of Matthew 12:46-50; Mark 3:32-35. It reports an honest matron's blessing on the, to her probably unknown, mother of Jesus, who in this case...
“THE SIGN OF JONAH” Luke 11:27-32 What a tribute this woman paid our Lord! He was full of grace as well as truth; and those who, with unbiased and unprejudiced minds, saw Him moving among men, were...
Watching the Master at prayer, His disciples were inspired with a desire to pray, and requested that they be taught. He responded to them in a fourfold statement. First, He gave them a model. Then He...
Greek: Menounge, imo vero, yes indeed. Our Saviour does not here wish to deny what the woman had said, but rather to confirm it: indeed how could he deny, as Calvin impiously maintained, that his moth...
CHAPTER 24 THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES SEEK A SIGN FROM HEAVEN Matthew 12:38-45; Luke 11:16-36. “Then certain ones of the scribes and Pharisees responded, saying, Master, we wish to see a sign from The...
CONSANGUINITY OF THE HOLY GHOST Matthew 12:46-50; Mark 3:31-35; & Luke 8:19; Luke 8:21;...
7. _The Blasphemy of the Pharisees: Luke 11:14-36_. We have already observed (see on Luke 6:11) how remarkably coincident in time are the accusations called forth in Galilee by the healings on the Sab...
(27) And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. (28)...
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...
_HEARING AND KEEPING GOD’S WORD_ ‘A certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto Him, Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which Thou hast sucked. But He said, Yea rath...
The prayer which He taught His disciples (chapter 11) has respect also to the position into which they came before the gift of the Holy Ghost. [32] Jesus Himself prayed, as the dependent man on earth....
BUT HE SAID,.... Christ said "to the woman", Persic version reads, as correcting her, though not denying it, nor reproving her for it, but improving upon it: YEA RATHER, BLESSED ARE THEY THAT HEAR TH...
But he said, Yea rather, blessed _are_ they that hear the word of God, and keep it. Ver. 28. _Yea, rather, blessed_] His disciples were more blessed in hearing Christ than his mother in bearing him....
_As he spake these things, a certain woman_, &c. While Jesus thus reasoned, in confutation of the Pharisees, a woman of the company, ravished with his wisdom, and perhaps believing him to be their lon...
YEA, RATHER, BLESSED; the outward relation of Mary to Jesus as his mother was not so high a privilege, and did not confer such blessedness, as a believing and obedient spirt brings to the humblest of...
A woman's judgment of Christ:...
BUT HE SAID, YEA, RATHER, BLESSED ARE THEY THAT HEAR THE WORD OF GOD AND KEEP IT. The words of Christ may not have had much influence upon the hard-hearted Pharisees, but they certainly did make a dee...
VALUABLE INSTRUCTION AS TO PRAYER (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended in Mary). His...
27,28 While the scribes and Pharisees despised and blasphemed the discourses of our Lord Jesus, this good woman admired them, and the wisdom and power with which he spake. Christ led the woman to a hi...
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Luke 11:28 But G1161 He G846 said G2036 (G5627) that G3304 blessed G3107 hear G191 (G5723) word...
‘But he said, “Yes rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.” ' This all now leads on to the crunch saying. Those who are truly blessed are those who have responded to the word...
Luke 11:28. YEA, RATHER. Our Lord does not deny that His mother was blessed, but He nevertheless rectifies the woman's view. The ground of her blessedness, as in the case of all the human race, unto w...
CHRONOLOGY. The miracle and discourses here recorded are probably identical with those narrated in Matthew 12:22-45; Mark 3:23-30. Some have supposed that Luke gives the exact position, and not the ot...
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...
BUT HE SAID (αυτος δε ειπεν). Jesus in contrast turns attention to others and gives them a beatitude (μακαριο). "The originality of Christ's reply guarantees its historical character. Such a commen...
Luke 11:14. _And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils thr...
CONTENTS: Jesus' doctrine of prayer. Jesus charged with casting out demons by Beelzebub, and His answer. Woes denounced upon the Pharisees and lawyers. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Jonah, Sol...
Luke 11:1. _Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples._ The disciples of John were eminent for fasting and prayer; and though the prayers of the jews were good, yet they were not exact...
HOW HAPPY IS THE WOMAN. This woman who speaks, comes closer to the worship of the human mother of Christ, than anyone else in the New Testament. Jesus rebukes her, and points out that it is not his hu...
_Blessed are they that hear the Word of God, and keep it_ BLESSEDNESS FROM THE DIVINE POINT OF VIEW I. THE WOMAN’S EXCLAMATION. 1. Implying, in an indirect yet very strong manner, the blessedness o...
CHAPTER 11 VER. 2. _When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name_. S. Matthew adds this prayer to the sermon on the mount, whilst S. Luke places it at a later period. Either...
_But He said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear one word of God, and keep it._ Christ does not say that His mother is not blessed, as Calvin would have us believe, but only that they are more ble...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 11:14. CASTING OUT A DEVIL.—There seems to be little doubt that this miracle is the same as that in Matthew 12:22, as wrought apparently in Galilee. In St. Matthew’s Gospel there...
EXPOSITION LUKE 11:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the_ _subject of prayer. _Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of _time _or _place _enables us to fix the scene or date with any...
Tonight, chapter 11 in the gospel according to Luke. Again, as Luke is pointing out the human side of Jesus, though He was God, He became man. He is the God-man. He is divine, and yet, He is human. Th...
1 John 3:21; Isaiah 48:17; Isaiah 48:18; James 1:21; John 13:17;...
Yea, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it — For if even she that bare him had not done this, she would have forfeited all her blessedness....