Luke 18:12
What meaning of the luke 18:12 in the Bible?
What does Luke 18:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess."
What does Luke 18:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess."
Verse Luke 18:12. _I GIVE TITHES OF ALL THAT I POSSESS._] Or, _of all I_ _acquire_, κτωμαι. _Raphelius_ has well observed, that this verb, in the _present tense_, signifies to _acquire _- in the _pret...
I FAST TWICE ... - This was probably the Jewish custom. The Pharisees are said to have fasted regularly on the second and fifth days of every week in private. This was “in addition” to the public days...
CHAPTER 18 _ 1. The Unjust Judge and the Avenging of His Elect. (Luke 18:1)_ 2. The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican. (Luke 18:9) 3. The Little Children and the Required Lowliness. (Luke 18...
PARABLE OF THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN (Lk. only). In Luke 18:9 we should perhaps translate concerning those who trusted, etc. The parable, not necessarily spoken on the same occasion as the precedi...
UNWEARIED IN PRAYER (Luke 18:1-8)...
TWICE IN THE WEEK. The law prescribed only one in the year (Leviticus 16:29; Numbers 29:7). By the time of Zechariah 8:19 there were _four_ yearly fasts. In our Lord's day they were bi-weekly (Monday...
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...
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...
par VER 9. AND HE SPOKE THIS PARABLE TO CERTAIN WHICH TRUSTED IN THEMSELVES THAT THEY WERE RIGHTEOUS, AND DESPISED OTHERS: 10. TWO MEN WENT UP INTO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY; THE ONE A PHARISEE, AND THE OT...
ΝΗΣΤΕΎΩ (G3522) _praes. ind. act._ поститься (TDNT; SB, 2:241ff, 4:77-144; Μ, Taanith; DJG, 233). _Praes._ указывает на постоянный образ жизни, ΔΙΣ ΤΟΎ ΣΑΒΒΆΤΟΥ (G1364; G4521) дважды в неделю, по пон...
I FAST TWICE, &C.— The _sins_ which the Pharisee mentioned, being such as were severally charged on the publicans, and the _duties_ such as that sort of men were supposed to neglect, it shewed to what...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Proud (Luke 18:9-14) 9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others: 10Two men went up into the temple to pra...
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. I FAST TWICE IN THE WEEK, I GIVE TITHES (OR THE TENTH) OF ALL THAT I POSSESS, [ ktoomai (G2932)] - or 'acquire;' 'of all my gains' or...
22-25 Compare Luk_5:35; Mat_24:23-27; Mar_13:21-23; Joh_13:33. 25 Compare Luk_9:22. 26-27 Compare Mat_24:37-39; Gen. 7. 26 The unexpected suddenness of the coming of the Son of Mankind is further e...
18:12 gain. (e-11) See Notes at Luke 21:19 and 1 Thessalonians 4:4 ....
THE UNJUST JUDGE. THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN. THE RICH RULER 1-8. The Unjust Judge (peculiar to Lk). There is a close connexion with what precedes. The mention of the Second Advent leads Christ to...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 18 TWO *PARABLES ABOUT PRAYER 18:1-14 1 THE WIDOW AND THE JUDGE 18:1-8 V1 Jesus told his *disciples a *parable. It showed that they should continue...
I FAST TWICE IN THE WEEK. — From the negative side of his self-analysis the Pharisee passes to the positive. The Stoic Emperor is a little less systematic, or rather groups his thanksgiving after a di...
Luke 18:1 CHAPTER 11 CONCERNING PRAYER. WHEN the Greeks called man ό ανθρωπος, or the "uplooking one," they did but crystallize in a word what is a universal fact, the religious instinct of humanit...
_The Pharisee and the publican_....
THOSE WHOM GOD ACCEPTS Luke 18:9-17 We are taught here the spirit in which we should pray. Too many pray “with themselves.” The only time that we may thank God for not being as others is when we att...
Two parables on prayer are here given. The first insists on its necessity as an alternative to fainting. The second reveals the secrets of prevailing prayer, namely, humility and a deep sense of need....
See how the Pharisee here, by pride, lays open to the enemy his heart, which he had in vain shut against him by fasting and prayer. It is in vain to defend a city, if you leave the enemy a single pass...
HUMILITY AND PRIDE Luke 18:9-14. _“And He spoke this parable also to certain ones, having confidence in themselves that they are righteous, and treat others with contempt: Two men went up into the te...
3. _The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican: Luke 18:9-14_. VERS. 9-14. This parable is peculiar to Luke. Who are those τινές, _certain_, to whom it is addressed? They cannot be Pharisees. Luke w...
(9) And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and despised others: (10) Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee, and the other a...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
12._I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. _This is equivalent to saying that he performed more than the law required; just as the Popish monks talk loftily of their works of _...
Grace is the spring of the Christian's walk, and furnishes directions for it. He cannot with impunity (chapter 17) despise the weak. He must not be weary of pardoning his brother. If he have faith but...
I FAST TWICE IN THE WEEK,.... Not "on the sabbath", as the words may be literally rendered, and as they are in the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions; for the sabbath was not a fasting, but a feastin...
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. Ver. 12. _I fast twice a week_] Cardinal Bellarmine did more, for he fasted thrice a week, saith he that writes his life. John, Archbish...
_The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself_ The original clause, σταθεις προς εαυτον ταυτα προσηυχετο, it seems, should rather be rendered, _standing by himself prayed these things._ Read thus,...
TITHES; a tenth part....
THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN. The Pharisee:...
GRACE PRODUCING PERSISTENT PRAYER (vs.1-8) This section connects with the subjects of chapter 17. We have seen in the four sections of that chapter that the gospel of grace produces in the believer...
9-14 This parable was to convince some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others. God sees with what disposition and design we come to him in holy ordinances. What the P...
Twice in the sabbath, saith the Greek, but that is ordinary, to denominate the days of the week from the sabbath; the meaning is, twice between sabbath and sabbath. Those learned in the Jewish Rabbins...
Luke 18:12 fast G3522 (G5719) twice G1364 week G4521 tithes G586 (G5719) all G3956 that G3745 possess G2932 (G5736) fast - Luke 17:10; Numbers 23:4; 1 Samuel 15:13; 2 Kings 10:16;...
THE PARABLE OF THE ONE WHO TRUSTED IN HIMSELF THAT HE WAS SUPREMELY ACCEPTABLE TO GOD, AND WAS NOT, AND THE ONE WHO WAS DOUBTFUL ABOUT HIS ACCEPTABILITY WITH GOD WHO WAS MADE FULLY ACCEPTABLE (18:9-14...
CONNECTION. This section belongs to the same period as the preceding one; the first parable has a close connection of thought with the predictions concerning the coming of the Son of man, while the se...
TWICE IN THE WEEK (δις του σαββατου). One fast a year was required by the law (Leviticus 16:29; Numbers 29:7). The Pharisees added others, twice a week between passover and pentecost, and between t...
Luke 18:10 There are five points in which the Pharisee and the publican agree; there are five points in which they differ, and there are five special lessons which the incident urges upon the attenti...
Luke 18:1. _And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;_ «Not to faint» in their expectation of answers to their supplications, and therefore give u...
CONTENTS: Parable of the unjust judge. Parable of Pharisee and publican. Little children blessed. Rich young ruler. Death and resurrection foretold. Blind man healed near Jericho. CHARACTERS: God, Je...
Luke 18:1. _Men ought always to pray, and not to faint._ We have continual wants, and God is always ready to hear. And as we must always be thinking of good or of evil, it is best to set the Lord alwa...
THE PHARISEE STOOD APART BY HIMSELF. So everyone would be sure to see him. The Pharisees liked to _impress people_ by showing off their _goodness._ LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. The Pharisees thought they had...
_Two men went up into the temple to pray._ WHOM THE LORD RECEIVES Observe, from the parable-- I. HOW GOD LOOKS UPON THE HEART, RATHER THAN UPON THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE. It is not the spoken service...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 18:12 I FAST TWICE A WEEK. The OT law apparently required only one fast a year, on the Day of Atonement. TITHES OF ALL THAT I GET. See Deuteronomy 14:22, which required a tithe of th...
CHAPTER 18 VER. 1. _He spake a parable unto them to the end that._ Christ had said, at the end of the last chapter, that the Apostles and the faithful should suffer persecutions, in which they should...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 18:9. UNTO CERTAIN.—This parable is not addressed to Pharisees, but to some of His own followers who were Pharisaical at heart. DESPISED.—Or “set at nought” (R.V.). OTHERS.—Rath...
EXPOSITION LUKE 18:1 _The Lord speaks the two parables on prayer_—_the importunate widow, and the Pharisee and publican._ LUKE 18:1 AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE UNTO THEM TO THIS END, THAT MEN OUGHT ALW...
Shall we turn tonight to Luke, chapter 18. Luke tells us that Jesus now spoke a parable to them to this end (Luke 18:1), In other words, the purpose of the parable was to encourage people to pray an...
1 Corinthians 1:29; 1 Samuel 15:13; 1 Timothy 4:8; 2 Kings 10:16; Ephesians 2:9; Galatians 1:14; Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 58:2; Isaiah 58:3;...
Twice in the week. The law required only one fast in the year, that on the great day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:29; Numbers 29:7); though public memorial fasts were added, during the Captivity, on the...
I fast twice in the week — So did all the strict Pharisees: every Monday and Thursday. I give tithes of all that I possess — Many of them gave one full tenth of their income in tithes, and another ten...