(4) And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and [unto] magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
(4) It is a great and difficult conflict to confess the truth, yet God who can do all things and is almighty will provide strength to the weakest who struggle greatly and do battle in God's appointed time.
Verse Luke 12:11. _UNTO MAGISTRATES AND POWERS_] See Matthew 10:17. _TAKE YE NO THOUGHT_] See Matthew 6:25; Matth
See the notes at Matthew 10:17....
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Warning Against Hypocrisy. (Luke 12:1)_ 2. Encouragements. (Luke 12:4) 3. Warning Against Covetousness. (Luke 12:15) 4. Warning Against Anxiety. ...
LUKE 12. A COLLECTION OF SAYINGS taken from Q and arranged in groups with more or less suitable introductions. LUKE 12:1. JESUS ENCOURAGES HIS DISCIPLES. (For parallels in Mt. see below.) After a war...
In the meantime, when the people had been gathered together in their thousands, so that they trampled on each other, Jesus began to say first of all to his disciples, "Be on your guard against the lea...
THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
UNTO. before. Greek. _epi._ App-104. SYNAGOGUES. See App-120. POWERS. authorities. App-172. TAKE YE NO THOUGHT. be not full of care, or anxious. ANSWER. reply in defence. See Acts 6:8, Act 6:10. 2...
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...
_unto the synagogues_, _and unto magistrates, and powers_ The -synagogues" were the small Jewish tribunals of synagogue officials in every town, which had the power of inflicting scourging for minor r...
Ἢ ΤΊ. אBL La[250] Ti[251] W.H[252] It is omitted in D. [250] La. Lachmann. [251] Ti. Tischendorf. [252] W.H. Westcott and Hort. 11. ἘΠῚ ΤᾺΣ ΣΥΝΑΓΩΓᾺΣ ΚΑῚ ΤᾺΣ�. The “synagogues” were the small Jewish...
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...
Luke 12:1-12. THE DUTY OF BOLD SINCERITY AND TRUST IN GOD...
Ver 8. Also I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: 9. But he that denies me before men shall be denied before the angels o...
ΕΊΣΦΈΡΩΣΙΝPRAES. _conj. act. от_ ΕΊΣΦΈΡΩ (G1533) вносить, вводить. _Conj._ с ΌΤΑΝ (G3752) в indef. _temp. прид._ ΜΕΡΙΜΝΉΣΗΤΕ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΜΕΡΙΜΝΆΩ (G3309) быть озабоченным, волноваться. _Conj....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Arguments for Alertness (Luke 12:1-12) 12 In the meantime, when so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trod upon one another, he began to say...
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: 12. AND WHEN THEY BRING YOU UNTO THE SYNAG...
46 Compare Mat_23:4. 47 Compare Mat_23:29-36. 51 Compare Gen_4:8; 2Ch_24:20-21. 51 Men are to be judged by what they know as well as by what they do. To do that which you condemn in others convicts...
THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES. THE RICH FOOL 1-12. Jesus warns His followers against Pharisaic hypocrisy, and exhorts them to be courageous in face of opposition. This speech is not unsuitable to the co...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 JESUS WARNS AND ENCOURAGES HIS *DISCIPLES 12:1-12 1 WARNING ABOUT THE FALSE LIVES OF THE *PHARISEES 12:1-3 V1 Thousands of people had gathered. T...
AND WHEN THEY BRING YOU UNTO THE SYNAGOGUES. — See Note on Matthew 10:18. What had been a special promise to the Twelve is now extended to all whom the Lord calls His friends. Note, as characteristic...
CHAPTER 23 THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE GOSPEL. COIFI, in his parable to the thanes and nobles of the North Humber country, likened the present life of man to the flight of a sparrow through one of their l...
τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰς ἐξουσίας : a general reference to heathen tribunals in place of Mt.'s συνέδρια (Luke 10:17). “Synagogues,” representing Jewish tribunals, retained....
Another solemn declaration introduced by a λέγω δὲ = Matthew 10:32-33. ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀγγέλων τ. Θ.: in place of Mt.'s “before my Father in heaven”. In Luke 12:6 “God” takes the place of “your Father”...
_Exhortation to fearless utterance_, addressed to the disciples (_cf._ Matthew 10:17-33). ἐν οἷς, in these circumstances, _i.e._, while the assaults of the Pharisees and scribes on Jesus were going on...
THE SECRET OF FEARLESSNESS Luke 12:1-12 The program of this paragraph seems dark. The leaven of evil always at work; the body tortured and killed; confession difficult, denial easy; the trials befor...
Knowing that the enmity of the rulers against Him would proceed also against His disciples, He told them not to be afraid of those who kill the body, remembering ever their Father's care, as revealed...
CHAPTER 25 LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES Luke 12:1. _“Meanwhile myriads of the multitude, having come together, so that they were treading on one another, He began to speak first to His disciples, Take hee...
VERS. 11 AND 12. _The Aid._ “ _When they bring you unto the synagogues, and before magistrates and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:_ 12. _For the Hol...
3 _d. To the Disciples: Luke 12:1-12_. This violent scene had found its echo outside; a considerable crowd had flocked together. Excited by the animosity of their chiefs, the multitude showed a dispos...
(1) In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the...
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...
chapter 12 puts the disciples into this place of testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost, and with the world opposed to them, after the Lord's departure. It is the word and the Holy Ghost, instead of...
AND WHEN THEY BRING YOU UNTO THE SYNAGOGUES,.... Of the Jews, to be examined and scourged by the rulers of them: AND UNTO MAGISTRATES AND POWERS; Heathen ones; the Persic version reads, "princes and...
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and _unto_ magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: Ver. 11. _Take ye no thought_] See the not...
_When they bring you unto the synagogues_ Let me add, however others may be affected by this testimony of the Spirit, one happy effect of its operation shall be to furnish you, my apostles, for a prop...
BE NOT AFRAID; a very common form of hypocrisy has always been dissimulation and the denial of Christ through fear of man. Compare John 12:42-43. The Saviour, therefore, next warns his disciples again...
Confessing Christ:...
AND WHEN THEY BRING YOU UNTO THE SYNAGOGUES AND UNTO MAGISTRATES AND POWERS, TAKE YE NO THOUGHT HOW OR WHAT THING YE SHALL ANSWER, OR WHAT YE SHALL SAY;...
THE PEOPLE WARNED AGAINST FALSE LEADERS (vs.1-12) At a time when the crowd was extremely large, the Lord addressed His disciples "first of all," warning them to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees,...
1-12 A firm belief of the doctrine of God's universal providence, and the extent of it, would satisfy us when in peril, and encourage us to trust God in the way of duty. Providence takes notice of th...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV "And when they bring you before synagogues, and rulers, and powers, think not: beforehand how ye shall make your defence, or what ye shall say. For the Holy Spir...
Luke 12:11 Now G1161 when G3752 bring G4374 (G5725) you G5209 to G1909 synagogues G4864 and G2532 magistrates...
“And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, do not be anxious how or what you shall answer, or what you shall say, for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that...
SECTION 5 (12:1-14:35). We commence here a new section of Luke. As we shall see this section centres around a mighty act of Jesus in delivering a woman bound by Satan, and thus doubled up and unable t...
INSTRUCTION TO HIS DISCIPLES ABOUT LIVING IN THE LIGHT OF ETERNITY (12:1-12). Approaching the detail of the section the first thing that Jesus wants to do is make His disciples think in the light of e...
Luke 12:11-12. See on Matthew 10:19-20....
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...
CHAPTER 12 is made up of a series of discourses following each other in immediate succession, but with less of unity and logical connection than are found in most of our Lord's recorded sermons. Some...
Luke 12:1-12. WARNING AGAINST HYPOCRISY. Comp. the various parallel passages in Matthew. The connection: ‘Beware of hypocrisy (Luke 12:1), for all shall be made evident in the end (Luke 12:2), and ye...
BE NOT ANXIOUS (μη μεριμνησητε). First aorist active subjunctive with μη in prohibition. Do not become anxious. See a similar command to the Twelve on their Galilean tour (Matthew 10:19) and in the...
The teaching of our Lord, in this chapter, has very much to do with Christianity in connection with this present life, and its cares and troubles. God has nowhere promised us exemption from affliction...
In this chapter, our Saviour dispels the fears of his disciples concerning temporal things, and especially their fear of persecution and their fear of want. Luke 12:1. In the mean time, when there we...
CONTENTS: Jesus warns of leaven of the Pharisees. Parable of the rich fool. Parable of the second coming. Parable of the steward and his servants. Christ, the divider of men. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disci...
Luke 12:1. _There were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek is myriads, or ten thousands of people. Luke 12:5. _Power to cast into hell._ The Greek is Gehenna, as on Isaiah...
WHEN THEY BRING YOU TO BE TRIED IN THE SYNAGOGUES. A promise of supernormal help. See notes on Matthew 10:19-20....
_The Holy Ghost shall teach you_ DIVINE HELP FOR MINISTERS IN DISCHARGING THEIR DUTIES The advice and promise contained in these verses were very suitable to the disciples, many of whom were soon to...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:11 HOLY SPIRIT. See Luke 21:14; see note on Gal. 5:18....
CHAPTER 12 VER. 1. _In the mean time when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek has "the myriads of the multitude." A myriad contains exactly ten thousand, and is...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 12:1. AN INNUMERABLE MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE.—“The many thousands of the multitude” (R.V.); lit. “the myriads of the multitude.” The discourse in this chapter is evidently in continu...
EXPOSITION LUKE 12:1 _The Lord_,_ after leaving the Pharisee_'_s house_,_ speaks at great length to a numerous crowd waiting for him_,_ addressing his words principally to his own disciples. _The for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 12. We are dealing with the final month in the ministry of Jesus. He has returned to Jerusalem. He will soon be leaving Jerusalem to go down to th...
Acts 4:5; Acts 5:27; Acts 6:9; Luke 21:12; Mark 13:9;...
Answer [α π ο λ ο γ η σ η σ θ ε]. See on 1 Peter 3:15....
Take no thought — Be not solicitous about the matter or manner of your defence; nor how to express yourselves. Matthew 10:19; Luke 21:12....
Here our Saviour acquaints his apostles, that for preaching his doctrine, and professing his religion, they should be brought before all sorts of magistrates, and into all kinds of courts; but advised...