Luke 11:35

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 expostion of this portion, see the notes at Matthew 12:22. Verse 21. WHEN A (OR 'THE') STRONG MAN ARMED KEEPTH [OR 'GUARDETH' fulassee (G5442 )] HIS PALACE, [ auleen (G833)]. 'This stands for "palace" (says Olshausen), a great pile surrounded with forecourts and halls.' Meyer repudiates this sense, contending for the primary meaning of the word, an open 'court....

29-36 Christ promised that there should be one sign more given, even the sign of Jonah the prophet; which in Matthew is explained, as meaning the resurrection of Christ; and he warned them to improve this sign. But though Christ himself were the constant preacher in any congregation, and worked miracles daily among them, yet unless his grace humbled their hearts, they would not profit by his word. Let us not desire more evidence and fuller teaching than the Lord is pleased to afford us. We should pray without ceasing that our hearts and understandings may be opened, that we may profit by the light we enjoy. And especially take heed that the light which is in us be not darkness; for if our leading principles be wrong, our judgment and practice must become more so....

These verses are found in Matthew, but in a different connection. See the notes at Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22....

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 exactness. Somewhere in the course of the last journeyings towards Jerusalem, related especially in this Gospel, did this scene and its teaching take place. LUKE 11:1 LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY, AS JOHN ALSO TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES. It seems as though some of his disciples—we know at this period many were with him besides the twelve—heard their Master praying. It appeared to them—no doubt, as they caught here and there a word and expression as he prayed, perhap

TAKE HEED THEREFORE,.... By attending to the light of the Gospel, shining in the ministration of it, and do not neglect and despise it: THAT THE LIGHT WHICH IS IN THEE BE NOT DARKNESS; lest being given up to a judicial blindness and hardness of heart, not only the light of nature, which the Jews had in common with the Gentiles, but even that notional light and knowledge of divine things, which they had by being favoured with an external revelation, the writings of the Old Testament, should be lost....

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 through Beelzebub the chief of the devils._ One would hardly have thought that they could have gone to such a length as that; but when men hate Christ, there is nothing they will not say against him. It is no subject of surprise when great heresies arise, for they are the natural outcome of human enmity against Christ and his truth. People in such a state of heart will say anything; they will give utterance to thoughts that you could not have imagined would have entered any human brain; it is the enmity of the heart to Christ that produces this blasphemy of the tongue. Luke 11:16. And others,

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 11:14) 5. The Return of the Unclean Spirit. (Luke 11:23) 6. The Blessedness of Hearing the Word. (Luke 11:27) 7. The Sign of Jonas. (Luke 11:29) 8.

SAYINGS ABOUT LIGHT. With Luke 11:33; cf. Luke 8:16 (= Mark 4:21; Matthew 5:15). With Luke 11:34 f. _cf._ Matthew 6:22 f.* Luke 11:36 is tautologous and the true text is not certain. LUKE 11:35. THE LIGHT THAT IS IN THEE: the light of the soul, the organ of spiritual vision; if this be dark, great is the darkness.

TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...

TAKE HEED. Seq. Greek. _skopeo._ Occurs only here Romans 16:17; 2 Corinthians 4:18; Galatians 1:6; Galatians 1:1.Philippians 1:2; Philippians 1:4; Philippians 3:17, LIGHT. Greek _phos._ See App-130....