Luke 5:35

But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. BUT THE DAYS WILL COME, [ Eleusontai (G2064 ) de (G1161 ) heemerai (G2250 ), RATHER, 'BUT DAYS WILL COME,'] WHEN THE BRIDEGROOM SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM - a delicate and affecting allusion to coming events, and the grief with which these would fill the disciples, AND THEN SHALL THEY FAST IN THOSE DAYS - q.d., 'In My presence such exercises were unseemly: when bereft of Me, they will have time enough and cause enough.'...

27-39 It was a wonder of Christ's grace, that he would call a publican to be his disciple and follower. It was a wonder of his grace, that the call was made so effectual. It was a wonder of his grace, that he came to call sinners to repentance, and to assure them of pardon. It was a wonder of his grace, that he so patiently bore the contradiction of sinners against himself and his disciples. It was a wonder of his grace, that he fixed the services of his disciples according to their strength and standing. The Lord trains up his people gradually for the trials allotted them; we should copy his example in dealing with the weak in faith, or the tempted believer....

See this passage illustrated in the notes at Matthew 9:14. Luke 5:39 HAVING DRUNK OLD WINE ... - Wine increases its strength and flavor, and its mildness and mellowness, by age, and the old is therefore preferable. They who had tasted such mild and mellow wine would not readily drink the comparatively sour and astringent juice of the grape as it came from the press. The meaning of this proverb in this place seems to be this: You Pharisees wish to draw my disciples to the “austere” and “rigid” duties of the ceremonial law - to fasting and painful rites; but they have come under a milder system. They have tasted the gentle and tender blessings of the gospel; they have no “relish” for your stern and harsh requirements. To insist now on their

EXPOSITION When St. Luke compiled his Gospel, many of the circumstances connected with the early relations of the leaders of Christianity with their Founder were so well known, and had been so often repeated, that it seemed unnecessary to rehearse them afresh; hence to us the seeming abruptness of the introduction of Simon (Peter), James, and John in the scene now about to be related. In the preceding, the healing of Simon's wife's mother of a great fever is related without any explanation, as though Simon Peter's connection with the Lord was a fact too well known to require any comment or explanation. The association of Jesus and these chosen men seems to have commenced as follows: Simon (Peter) and his brother Andrew (sons of Jona), John and James (the sons of Zebedee and Salome), belonged to fisher families dwelling on the banks of the Lake of Gennesaret. They seemed to have been fas...

BUT THE DAYS WILL COME,.... And that in a very little time, as they did: WHEN THE BRIDEGROOM SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM: as their master, John, was taken away from them, and now in prison, and therefore it was no wonder they mourned and fasted; signifying, that in a short time he, the bridegroom of his church and people, should be taken away by death: AND THEN THEY SHALL FAST IN THOSE DAYS; mourn, and be humbled, of which fasting was, a sign, for the death of their Lord, and on account of the many afflictions and persecutions they should endure for his sake; Matthew 9:15....

CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Miraculous Drought of Fishes. (Luke 5:1)_ 2. The Leper Healed. (Luke 5:12) 3. The Paralytic Healed. (Luke 5:17) 4. The Call of Matthew and the Feast (Luke 5:27) 5. The Scribes and Pharisees Answered (Luke 5:30) 6. The Parable of the Garment and the Bottle. (Luke 5:36 .) Luke 5:1 Two miraculous draughts of fishes are found in the Gospels. The one he

THE QUESTION OF FASTING (Mark 2:18 *, Matthew 9:14 *). Lk.'s interest in prayer is again (_cf._ Luke 5:16) seen in Luke 5:33, with which _cf. Luke 11:1_. The recasting of the saying about the patch (Luke 5:36) reflects a later age; Christianity was now a made-up garment, when Jesus spoke it was only in the piece. LUKE 5:39. Lk. only. If it was spoken on this occasion it means that John's disciples

THE CONDITIONS OF A MIRACLE (Luke 5:1-11)...

THE DAYS WILL COME. there will come days [for those]. WHEN. All the texts read "and when", following up the Figure of speech _Aposiopesis_ (App-6), as though the time for revealing the fact of His crucifixion had not yet come. SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY. Greek. _apairo._ Occurs only here, and the parallels (Matthew 9:15.Mark 2:20; Mark 2:20) implying. violent death; as "lifted up" in John 3:14. THEN SHALL THEY FAST. As they did (Acts 13:2; Acts 13:3)....

The Call and Feast of Levi. On Fasting. The New and the Old 27. _and saw_ Rather, HE OBSERVED. _named Levi_ It may be regarded as certain that Levi is the same person as the Evangelist St Matthew. The name Matthew (probably a corruption of Mattihijah) means, like Nathanael, Theodore, Doritheus, Adeodatus, &c., -the gift of God," and it seems to have been the name which he himself adopted after his call (see Matthew 9:9; Matthew 10:3; Mark 2:14). _at the receipt of custom_ Matthew may have been a tax-gatherer for Herod Antipas who seems to have been allowed to manage his own taxes and not for the Romans; but even in that case he would share almost equally with a man like Zacchaeus the odium w