Luke 6:11

And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered. For the exposition, see the notes at Matthew 12:9. Our Lord has now reached the most important period in His public ministry, when His Twelve Apostles have to be chosen; and it is done with a solemnity corresponding to the weighty issues involved in it....

6-11 Christ was neither ashamed nor afraid to own the purposes of his grace. He healed the poor man, though he knew that his enemies would take advantage against him for it. Let us not be drawn either from our duty or from our usefulness by any opposition. We may well be amazed, that the sons of men should be so wicked....

Verse Luke 6:11. _THEY WERE FILLED WITH MADNESS_] Pride, obstinacy, and interest, combined together, are capable of any thing. When men have once framed their _conscience_ according to their _passions_, _madness_ passes for _zeal_, the blackest conspiracies for pious designs, and the most horrid attempts for heroic actions. QUESNEL....

WERE FILLED WITH MADNESS - Probably, * Because he had shown his “power” to work a miracle. * Because he had shown his power to do it “contrary” to what “they” thought was right. * Because by doing it he had shown that he was from “God,” and that “they” were therefore “wrong” in their views of the Sabbath. And, * Because he had shown no respect “to their views” of what the law of God demanded. Pride, obstinacy, malice, and disappointed self-confidence were “all” combined, therefore, in producing madness. Nor were they alone. Men are often enraged because others do good in a way which “they” do not approve of. God gives success to others; and because he has not accommodated himself to “their” views of what is right, and done it in the way which “they” would have prescribed, they are enraged, and filled with envy at people more successful than themselves....

EXPOSITION LUKE 6:1 _The Lord_'_s teaching on the question of the observance of the sabbath._ LUKE 6:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE SECOND SABBATH AFTER THE FIRST. The expression accompanying this note of time of St. Luke, "the second sabbath after the first," more literally, "the second-first sabbath," has always been a difficulty with expositors of this Gospel. The word is absolutely unique, and is found in no other Greek author. Recent investigations in the text of the New Testament have proved that this word is not found in the majority of the more ancient authorities. Of the modern critical editors, Alford and Lachmann enclose the disputed word in brackets; Tregelles and Meyer omit it altogether; but the Revisers of the En

AND THEY WERE FILED WITH MADNESS,.... Both at the cure, and because they could not answer him; nor properly fix a charge upon him, or accuse him before the people, without bringing their resentments on them: AND COMMUNED ONE WITH ANOTHER WHAT THEY MIGHT DO WITH JESUS: this they did after they came out of the synagogue, and when with the Herodians, as in Mark 3:6....

Luke 6:6. _And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered. And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him. But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth. Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy it? And looking round about upon them all,_ I think I see that piercing glance, which read their very hearts, and condemned the wickedness it saw there: «Looking round about upon them all,» Luke 6:10. He said unto the man, Stre

CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Son of Man the Lord of the Sabbath. (Luke 6:1)_ 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed. (Luke 6:6) 3. The Twelve Apostles Chosen. (Luke 6:12) 4. Blessing and Woe. (Luke 6:20) 5. Good for Evil. (Luke 6:27) 6. Instructions to Disciples. (Luke 6:32) 7. Warnings. (Luke 6:39 .)...

SABBATH OBSERVANCE (Mark 2:23 *, Matthew 12:1 *). There is little change to note here. No satisfactory explanation has been found of Luke 6:1 _mg._ It is a gloss not found in the best MSS. Codex Bezæ in Lk. transfers Luke 6:5 to the end of Luke 6:10 and in its place has, On the same day He saw a man working on the Sabbath and said to him, - Man, if thou knowest what thou doest, blessed art thou; but if thou knowest not thou art accursed and a transgressor of the law.-' Montefiore thinks the saying too subtle and Pauline to be authentic, doubting whether Jesus would have so open

THE INCREASING OPPOSITION (Luke 6:1-5)...