Luke 13:33

Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. NEVERTHELESS I MUST WALK TODAY, AND TOMORROW, AND THE DAY FOLLOWING. Remarkable language, expressive of successive steps of His work yet remaining, of the calm deliberateness with which He meant to go through with them, one after another, to the last, unmoved by Herod's threat, but of the rapid march with which they were now hastening to completion! (Compare .) FOR IT CANNOT BE THAT A PROPHET PERISH OUT OF JERUSALEM. Awful severity of satire this upon 'the bloody city'! 'He seeks to "kill me" does He? Ah! I must be out of Herod's jurisdiction for that: Go tell him I neither fly from him nor fear him, but Jerusalem has ever been, and is once more to become, the prophet's slaughter-house.'...

33._It does not usually happen, etc. _He next adds, that it is an idle bugbear, which is held out by false and hypocritical advisers; because there is no danger of death _anywhere else than at Jerusalem. _In this second clause he sharply attacks the Pharisees. “Is it you, who — I foresee — will be my executioners, that advise me to beware of _Herod? _” The reproof extends, indeed, much farther; for he says, not only that preparations had been made for his own death in _Jerusalem, _but that it might be said to have been, for a long period, a den of robbers, in which almost all the _prophets _had been murdered. Many had, no doubt, been slain in other places, and particularly at the time when that cruel fury, (282) Jezebel, (1 Kings 19:2,) raged against them; but because in no other place had the _prophets, _at any time, been f

31-35 Christ, in calling Herod a fox, gave him his true character. The greatest of men were accountable to God, therefore it became him to call this proud king by his own name; but it is not an example for us. I know, said our Lord, that I must die very shortly; when I die, I shall be perfected, I shall have completed my undertaking. It is good for us to look upon the time we have before us as but little, that we may thereby be quickened to do the work of the day in its day. The wickedness of persons and places which more than others profess religion and relation to God, especially displeases and grieves the Lord Jesus. The judgment of the great day will convince unbelievers; but let us learn thankfully to welcome, and to profit by all who come in the name of the Lord, to call us to partake of his great salvation....

Verse Luke 13:33. _I MUST WALK_, c.] I must continue to work miracles and teach for a short time yet, and then I shall die in Jerusalem: therefore I cannot _depart_, according to the advice given me, (Luke 13:31,) nor can a hair of my head fall to the ground till my work be all done. _TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW_, c.] Kypke contends that the proper translation of the original is, _I must walk to-day and to-morrow_ _IN THE NEIGHBOURING COASTS_: and that εχομενη is often understood in this way: see Mark 1:38, and his notes there. That Christ was now in the jurisdiction of Herod, as he supposes, is evident from Luke 13:31

I MUST WALK ... - I must remain here this short time. These three days I must do cures here, and then I shall depart, though not for fear of Herod. It will be because my time will have come, and I shall go up to Jerusalem to die. FOR IT CANNOT BE THAT A PROPHET SHOULD PERISH OUT OF JERUSALEM - I have no fear that Herod will put me to death in Galilee. I shall not depart on that account. “Jerusalem” is the place where the prophets die, and where “I” am to die. I am not at all alarmed, therefore, at any threats of “Herod,” for my life is safe until I arrive at Jerusalem. Go and tell him, therefore, that I fear him not. I shall work here as long as it is proper, and shall then go up to Jerusalem to die. The reason why he said that a prophet could not perish elsewhere than in Jerusalem might be: * That he knew that he would be tried on a charge of blasphemy, and no other court could have...

EXPOSITION LUKE 13:1 _Signs of the times. The Lord continues his solemn warnings. Israel pictured in the parable of the barren fig tree._ LUKE 13:1 THERE WERE PRESENT AT THAT SEASON SOME THAT TOLD HIM OF THE GALILAEANS, WHOSE BLOOD PILATE HAD MINGLED WITH THEIR SACRIFICES; better rendered, _now there were present at that particular time; _namely, when the Master was discoursing of the threatening signs of the times, and urging men to repent and to turn and make their peace with God while there was yet time, for a terrible crisis was impending on that doomed land. Some of those then present, probably Jerusalem Jews, specially told off to watch the great Teacher, struck with his grave foreboding tone, when he spoke of the

NEVERTHELESS, I MUST WALK,.... The Syriac version reads, "I must work", and so the Arabic: as going about doing good, casting out devils, and healing diseases: TODAY AND TOMORROW, AND THE DAY FOLLOWING: a few days more in Galilee, and towards Jerusalem: all the Oriental versions read, "the day following I shall depart"; either out of this world; or out of Galilee, and go to Jerusalem, and there suffer and die: FOR IT CANNOT BE THAT A PROPHET PERISH OUT OF JERUSALEM; because the great sanhedrim only sat at Jerusalem, to whom it belonged to try and judge a prophet; and if found false, to condemn him, and put him to death; the rule is this e; "they do not judge, neither a tribe, nor a false prophet, nor an high priest, but by the sanhedrim of seventy and one.'' Not but that prophets sometimes perished elsewhere, as John the Baptist in Galilee; but not according to a judicial process, in...

Luke 13:11. _And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity._ Observe the word «Behold» here. Sometimes, in old books, they used to put a hand in the margin to call attention to something special in the text, so, this word seems as though nobody in the synagogue was worthy of such special notice as the most forlorn and desolate individual there: «a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and who bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.» It was to be a happy sabbath for her, though she did not know it. She used to go to the synagogue, though it must have been painful for her to be present; possibly, she could not even see the minister, she was so «bowed tog

CHAPTER 13 __ 1. The Necessity of Repentance. (Luke 13:1 .) 2. The Barren Fig Tree. (Luke 13:6) 3. The Healing of a Daughter of Abraham. (Luke 13:10) 4. Parable of the Mustard Seed. (Luke 13:18) 5. Parable of the Leaven. (Luke 13:20) 6. Solemn Teachings. (Luke 13:22) 7. The Answer to Herod. (Luke 13:31) 8. Lament over Jerusalem. ...

THE ENMITY OF HEROD. Peræ a was part of Herod Antipas's territory. It is possible that the Pharisees wished to get Jesus into Judæ a and so nearer the arm of the Sanhedrin. The reference of Jesus to His death in Jerusalem (Luke 13:33) may point this way. If so they, more than Herod, were the fox. There were, however, Pharisees that were friendly to Jesus, _cf. Luke 14:1_ ff. As applied to Herod the epithet sums up the tyranny, timidity, and insolence of the Idumæ an character of the Herods. Jesus asserts that His work of exorcising and healing is only a preliminary to the coming of the Kingdom and His entry into glory. I am perfected need not mean death, though it is usually so interpreted. LUKE 13:33 may be an additio