Luke 6:12

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS, THAT HE WENT OUT (PROBABLY FROM CAPERNAUM), AND CONTINUED ALL NIGHT IN PRAYER TO GOD....

12-19 We often think one half hour a great deal to spend in meditation and secret prayer, but Christ was whole nights engaged in these duties. In serving God, our great care should be not to lose time, but to make the end of one good duty the beginning of another. The twelve apostles are here named; never were men so privileged, yet one of them had a devil, and proved a traitor. Those who have not faithful preaching near them, had better travel far than be without it. It is indeed worth while to go a great way to hear the word of Christ, and to go out of the way of other business for it. They came to be cured by him, and he healed them. There is a fulness of grace in Christ, and healing virtue in him, ready to go out from him, that is enough for all, enough for each. Men regard the diseases of the body as greater evils than those of their souls; but the Scripture teaches us differently....

Verse Luke 6:12. _IN PRAYER TO GOD._] Or, _in the prayer of God_: or, _in_ _the oratory of God_, εν τῃ προσευχῃ του Θεου. So this passage is translated by many critics; for which Dr. Whitby gives the following reasons: As the _mountain of God_, Exodus 3:1; Exodus 4:27; the _bread of God_, Leviticus 21:17; the _lamp of God_, 1 Samuel 3:3; the _vessels of God_, 1 Chronicles 22:19; the _altar of God_,...

AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS - The designation of the time here is very general. It means “about” the time when the events occurred which had been just narrated. HE WENT OUT INTO A MOUNTAIN - Jesus was accustomed to resort to such places to hold communion with God, Mark 6:46. He did it because it was retired, free from interruption, and fitted by impressiveness and grandeur to raise the thoughts to the God that had formed the high hills and the deep-shaded groves. AND CONTINUED ALL NIGHT IN PRAYER TO GOD - There has been a difference of opinion about this passage, whether it means that he spent the night in the act of “praying” to God, or in a “place” of prayer. The Jews had places of prayer, called “oratories,” built out of their cities or towns, where they could retire from t

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 IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS,.... When Christ was teaching by the lake of Gennesaret, or in one or other of the cities of Galilee near that place: THAT HE WENT OUT; of the synagogue and city where he had been: INTO A MOUNTAIN TO PRAY; for the sake of solitude, and which lay near the sea of Tiberias; Matthew 14:23. AND CONTINUED ALL NIGHT IN PRAYER TO GOD; or "with" God, as the Ethiopic version renders it; or "in the prayer of God" as the phrase may be literally rendered; not in a prayer of God's making; though the Jews m sometimes speak of the prayer of God, and give us a form of it: but either this respects the object of his prayer; it was made to God, as our translation suggests; or the nature, matter, and manner of it: it was a divine prayer, it regarded divine things, and was put up in a very fervent manner, and with grea

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 .)...

THE APPOINTMENT OF THE TWELVE. MIRACLES OF HEALING (Mark 3:12 *, Matthew 10:2; Matthew 12:15 *). Mk. puts the healings first. Lk. transposes his order to bring the Twelve into prominence. Jesus prepares for the choice by a night of prayer, and then deliberately marks off the Twelve from the rank and file of the disciples. Judas (the son) of James, takes the place of Thaddæ us (Mk.) or Lebbæ us (Mt.). Jesus comes down (to the plain or to a level place on the hillside) to address the throng gathered from all Judæ a (Codex Bezæ sensibly omits and Jerusalem), _i.e._ Palestine (Luke 4:44 *), and Phœ nicia. With...

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

IN. Greek. _en._ App-104. Not the same word as in verses: Luke 6:8; Luke 6:17. Luk 6:-23. A. the. TO PRAY. The third of seven such occasions in Luke. See note on Luke 3:21. CONTINUED ALL NIGHT. Peculiar to Luke.. medical word. Compare Matthew 14:23. PRAYER TO GOD. Greek. prayer of God. Genitive of Relation. App-17....