Luke 6:18

And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. AND THEY THAT WERE VEXED WITH UNCLEAN SPIRITS: AND THEY WERE HEALED....

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....

VEXED - The word “vex” with us means to provoke, or irritate by petty provocations. Here it means, however, to “afflict,” to “torment” - denoting deep and heavy trials. UNCLEAN SPIRITS - Demons that were impure and unholy, having a delight in tormenting, and in inflicting painful and loathsome diseases....

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 THAT WERE VEXED WITH UNCLEAN SPIRITS,.... Were possessed with devils, and sadly tormented and afflicted by them: AND THEY WERE HEALED: both such that had bodily diseases, and were under diabolical possessions....

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)...

VEXED. beset. WITH. Greek _hupo._ App-104., but the Texts read apo. spirits. Greek. _pneuma._ See App-101. healed. Greek. _therapeuo._ Compare Luke 5:15....

12-19. _The Selection of the Twelve Apostles._ And it came to pass in those days, _that_he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to _to do good, or to do evil He_was intending to work a miracle for good; _they_were secretly plotting to do harm, their object being, if possible, to put Him to death. They received this question in stolid silence. Mark 3:4. _to save life_ Rather, a life....