Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Luke 7:42
Verse 42. Which of them will love him most?] Which is under the greater obligation and should love him most?
Verse 42. Which of them will love him most?] Which is under the greater obligation and should love him most?
FRANKLY FORGAVE - Freely forgave, or forgave entirely without any compensation. This is not designed to express anything about the way in which God forgives sinners. He forgives - forgives freely, but...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Centurion's Servant Healed. (Luke 7:1 .)_ 2. The Widow's Son Raised from the Dead. (Luke 7:11) 3. John's Questions and the Answer. (Luke 7:18) 4. The Testimony Concerning John. ...
THE ANOINTING OF JESUS. Lk. only; perhaps based on the incident (though not to be identified with it) recorded in Mark 14:3 *, Matthew 26:6 *, and introduced here in illustration of Jesus-' friend shi...
One of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him. He went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table; and--look you--there was a woman in the town, a bad woman. She knew that he was at table in...
A SOLDIER'S FAITH (Luke 7:1-10)...
WHEN THEY HAD NOTHING. not (Greek. _me_ as in Luke 7:13) having anything. MOST. more....
_he frankly forgave them_ In the original, the one word ἐχαρίσατο _,_-he remitted," involving the idea of that free grace and favour (_charis_) on which St Luke, like St Paul, is always glad to dwell....
ΜῊ ἘΧΌΝΤΩΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν�. Not, as in A. V[167] “when they had _nothing_ to pay,” but ‘when they were unable (_had it not_ in their power) to pay.’ Vulg[168] _non habentibus illis, unde redderent_. The μὴ r...
Ver 36. And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. 37. And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she...
ΕΧΌΝΤΩΝ _praes. act. part._ (причины) от ΈΧ (G2192) иметь. _Gen. abs._ ΆΠΟΔΟΎΝΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΆΠΟΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G591) возвращать, отдавать. _Inf._ в роли dir. _obj._ ΈΧΑΡΊΣΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.),...
DISCOURSE: 1502 THE INSOLVENT DEBTORS Luke 7:40. _And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee, and he saith, Master, say on. There was a certain creditor, which had two...
WHICH OF THEM WILL LOVE HIM MOST?— Neither of them will love him at all before he has forgiven them. An insolventdebtor, till he is forgiven, does not love but fly his creditor. See the note on Luke 7...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 5 The Self-Satisfied (Luke 7:36-50) 36 One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house, and took his place at table. 37And behold, a w...
And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? AND WHEN THEY HAD NOTHING TO PAY, HE FRANKLY FORGAVE THEM BOTH. TELL ME THEREFO...
19 As the form of the Greek word for different or "another" is indefinite as to gender, it may be rendered "a different thing" or "another thing". That is, John may have hoped that Christ was about to...
7:42 forgave (f-9) As 'show grace,' 2 Corinthians 2:7 ....
RAISING OF THE WIDOW'S SON. THE WOMAN WHO WAS A SINNER 1-10. Healing of the centurion's servant. See on Matthew 8:5....
CHRIST ANOINTED AT THE HOUSE OF SIMON THE PHARISEE (peculiar to Lk). Placed here as an illustration of how 'Wisdom' (i.e. the Gospel) is justified by the changed life of one of 'her children' (this si...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 THE *FAITH OF AN ARMY OFFICER 7:1-10 V1 When Jesus had finished saying all these things to the people, he went to Capernaum. V2 In that town, an of...
THERE WAS A CERTAIN CREDITOR... — The parable has some points of resemblance to that of the Two Debtors in Matthew 18:23. Here, however, the debts, though different, are not separated by so wide an in...
CHAPTER 13 THE ANOINTING OF THE FEET. Luke 7:36 WHETHER the narrative of the Anointing is inserted in its chronological order we cannot say, for the Evangelist gives us no word by which we may recog...
ἐχαρίσατο : a warmer word than ἀφιέναι, welcome to Lk. as containing the idea of grace. ὀρθῶς ἔκρινας, like the πάνυ ὀρθῶς of Socrates, but without his irony....
_Host and guest_. ἀποκριθεὶς, answering, to his thought written on his face. Σίμων : the Pharisee now is called by his own name as in friendly intercourse. The whole dialogue on Christ's part presents...
_The sinful woman_. This section, peculiar to Lk., one of the golden evangelic incidents we owe to him, is introduced here with much tact, as it serves to illustrate how Jesus came to be called the fr...
THE FORGIVEN SINNER'S GRATEFUL LOVE Luke 7:36-50 What a trio! _Christ_ stands here as a manifestation of the divine love, as it comes among sinners. The love of God is not dependent on our merits; _f...
Here our Lord passed over the national boundary to bring blessing to the household of a Roman centurion. Of that man the elders said, "He is worthy." The man said, "I am not worthy." Jesus Said, "I ha...
Which will live him most? as we read in the Protestant version, and in the Greek, _agapesei. But Christ, seeming to require love as a previous disposition to the remission of sins, as appears from ver...
CHAPTER 23. GRATITUDE OF THE FALLEN WOMAN WHOM JESUS HAD SAVED Luke 7:36-50. “A certain one of the Pharisees asked Him that He may eat with him; and coming into the house of the Pharisee, He sat down...
_The Parable._ If this man wanted a proof of the prophetic gift of Jesus, he received it instantly in the following parable, which so exactly meets his thoughts and secret questions. The form of the f...
(36) And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him: and he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. (37) And, behold, a woman in the city which was a sinner, when she kn...
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...
_NOTHING TO PAY_ ‘They had nothing to pay.’ Luke 7:42 In this parable of the two debtors, as well as in another of His parables, our Lord teaches us that our sins are like so many debts which we ow...
Hence, after this, we find the Spirit acting in the heart of a Gentile (chapter 7). That heart manifested more faith than any among the children of Israel. Humble in heart, and loving the people of Go...
AND WHEN THEY HAD NOTHING TO PAY,.... Neither the lesser nor greater debtor; for though not alike in debt, yet both insolvent: man has run out his whole stock, which the God of nature gave him, in his...
And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? Ver. 42. _And when they had nothing to pay_] We are all non-solvents, stark beggar...
Luke 7:41, 42. "There was a certain creditor which had two debtors, the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me theref...
_Jesus answering_ What Simon spake within himself; _said, Simon, I have somewhat to say to thee_ Though he was kindly entertained at his table, yet even there he judged it proper to reprove him for wh...
AND WHEN THEY HAD NOTHING TO PAY, HE FRANKLY FORGAVE THEM BOTH. TELL ME THEREFORE, WHICH OF THEM WILL LOVE HIM MOST?...
The parable and its application:...
A CENTURION'S SERVANT HEALED (vs.1-10) The Lord then came to Capernaum and there was appealed to by a Gentile, a Roman centurion, by means of the mediatorship of Jewish elders. In contrast to this a...
36-50 None can truly perceive how precious Christ is, and the glory of the gospel, except the broken-hearted. But while they feel they cannot enough express self-abhorrence on account of sin, and adm...
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Luke 7:42 And G1161 they G846 had G2192 (G5723) nothing G3361 repay G591 (G5629) forgave G5483 ...
“A certain money lender had two debtors, the one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”...
A COMPARISON of the various accounts renders it highly probable that the Evangelist is here following the strict chronological order. (Some think the words of Luke 7:34 may have suggested the insertio...
Luke 7:42. AND WHEN THEY HAD NOT WHEREWITH TO PAY. They found out and confessed that they could not pay the debt. It is true that sinners have ‘nothing,' but the verse brings out rather the discovery...
WILL LOVE HIM MOST (πλειον αγαπησε αυτον). Strictly, comparativeMORE , πλειον, not superlative πλειστα, but most suits the English idiom best, even between two. Superlative forms are vanishing be...
Luke 7:42 Our State of Debtorship before God. I. What does the Saviour mean by representing sin as a debt? We can well understand in the abstract what a debt is. In looking at our state of debtorship...
Luke 7:40 A State of Sin a State of Debt. I. We are all debtors to God. Having failed to discharge the debt of obligation, we now owe a debt of punishment. II. We are debtors in different degrees....
Luke 7:36 I. The narrative encourages sinners of every name and degree to go at once to Christ. He will in nowise cast them out. There are no more touching stories in the Gospels than those which tell...
Luke 7:36. _And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat._ It was usually a suspicious circumstance when a Pharisee des...
Luke 7:36. _And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat._ They sat according to the Eastern custom of sitting, which w...
Luke 7:24. _And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?_ Certainly...
Luke 7:18. _And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things._ John was in prison, and, possibly, troubled in spirit. Luke 7:19. _And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to...
CONTENTS: Centurion's servant healed. Widow's son raised. Questions from John the Baptist in prison and Jesus' testimony. Jesus annointed in the Pharisee's house. Parable of the creditor and two debto...
Luke 7:2. _A certain centurion's servant._ As soon as this officer heard of Christ, he believed in him, having been assured of the miracles by competent witnesses. Being a gentile, he sent the rulers...
Jesus SPOKE UP. He answers the unspoken question of Simon. TWO MEN WHO OWED MONEY. This is a parable - using common things to teach spiritual truth. NEITHER COULD PAY HIM BACK. Both were helpless, as...
_He frankly forgave them both_ FREE FORGIVENESS There is one thing that is needful in all true religion--there is no religion without it--and that is love towards God. It is quite true that some Chr...
_And, behold, a woman in the city which was a sinner_ Jesus anointed by a weeping penitent in the house of Simon the Pharisee Much love shown where much sin has been forgiven I. IT IS TO THIS INDIVID...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 7:42 CANCELLED THE DEBT. For the comparison of sin with debt, see Luke 11:4; Matthew 6:
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 7:1 Luke helps his readers answer the question “Who is this...?” (v. Luke 7:49) by recounting two healing miracles (vv. Luke
CHAPTER 7 VER.1. _Now when he had ended_ (or fulfilled) _all his sayings_....
_And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most_? (loves him most, Vulg.) _i.e_. "in verity," or "ought" to love him most. For a si...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 7:36. ONE OF THE PHARISEES.—The invitation given by one of the Pharisees to Jesus would seem to belong to an early period of His ministry, before the enmity of that party against...
EXPOSITION LUKE 7:1 The _servant _(_or slave_)_ of the centurion of Capernaum is healed._ LUKE 7:1 NOW WHEN HE HAD ENDED ALL HIS SAYINGS. This clearly refers to the sermon on the mount. That great...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 7. At this point in Luke's gospel he is going to give us series of events, miracles that transpired in the life of Jesus. When he ended these say...
Acts 13:38; Acts 13:39; Colossians 3:13; Daniel 9:18; Daniel 9:19;...
Frankly forgave [ε χ α ρ ι σ α τ ο]. Rev. omits frankly, which is implied in the verb. See on ver. 21....
THE WOMAN WHO WAS A SINNER Luke 7:36 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There was a great gulf between the Pharisees and the publicans. The Pharisees professed a piety, that, in their own estimation, lifted them f...