Luke 6:15

Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, SIMON ... See the notes at Matthew 10:1....

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 6:15. _CALLED ZELOTES_] Some Jews gave this name to themselves, according to _Josephus_, (War, b. iv. c. iii. s. 9, and vii. c. viii. s. 1,) "because they pretended to be more than ordinarily _zealous_ for religion, and yet practised the very worst of actions." "But this (says the judicious Bp. Pearce) _Josephus_ says of the _zealots_, at the time when _Vespasian_ was marching towards Jerusalem. They probably were men of a different character above _forty_ years before; which was the time when Jesus chose his twelve apostles, one of whom had the surname of the _Zealot_." It is very probable that this name was first given to certain persons who were more _zealous_ for the cause of pure and undefiled religion than the rest of their neighbours; but like many other sects and parties who have _begun well_, they transferred their zeal for the...

See the notes at Matthew 10:1....

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

MATTHEW AND THOMAS,.... The first of these was a publican, and who also was called Levi; and the latter had besides the name of Didymus, and was he that was so unbelieving of Christ's resurrection: JAMES THE SON OF ALPHAEUS; sometimes called James the less, and the brother of our Lord: and SIMON CALLED ZELOTES; or the Canaanite; Matthew 10:4....

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)...

MATTHEW AND THOMAS... ALPHAEUS. All Aramaic. App-94....