Luke 6:36

_BUT I SAY UNTO YOU WHICH HEAR, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, DO GOOD TO THEM WHICH HATE YOU,_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

27-36 These are hard lessons to flesh and blood. But if we are thoroughly grounded in the faith of Christ's love, this will make his commands easy to us. Every one that comes to him for washing in his blood, and knows the greatness of the mercy and the love there is in him, can say, in truth and sincerity, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? Let us then aim to be merciful, even according to the mercy of our heavenly Father to us....

Verse 36. _BE YE THEREFORE MERCIFUL_] Or, _compassionate_; οικτιρμινες, from οικτος, _commiseration_, which etymologists derive from εικω to _give place, yield_, because we readily _concede_ those things which are necessary to them whom we commiserate. As God is ever _disposed_ to give all necessary help and support to those who are miserable, so his followers, being influenced by the same spirit, are _easy_ to be entreated, and are at all times _ready_ to contribute to the uttermost of their power to relieve or remove the miseries of the distressed. A merciful or compassionate man _easily_ forgets injuries; _pardons_ them without being _solicited_; and does not permit repeated returns of ingratitude to deter him from _doing good_, even to the unthankful and the unholy. Matthew 5:7,...

See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luke 6:21 THAT HUNGER NOW - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more fully what Luke has briefly, but there is no contradiction. Luke 6:24 These verses have been omitted by Matthew. They seem to have been spoken to the Pharisees. WHO ARE RICH - In this world’s goods. They loved them; they had sought for them; they found their consolation in them. It implies, farther, that they would not seek or receive consolation from the gospel. They were proud, and would not seek it; satisfied, and did not desire it; filled with cares, and had no tim

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

BE YE THEREFORE MERCIFUL,.... Tenderhearted, kind, beneficent to all men, friends and foes: AS YOUR FATHER ALSO IS MERCIFUL; that is your Father which is in heaven; who is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works: nothing is more common in Zohar y, and the Talmud z than to express the Divine Being by no other name, than "the Merciful"; אמר רחמנא, "the Merciful said" so, and so; that is, God: and so the Arabians generally begin their books and Chapter s with these words, "in the name of God, exceeding merciful", or "the merciful commiserator": a saying much like to this in the text, is the Targum of Jonathan, on Leviticus 22:28. "O my people, the children of "Israel, as your father", רחמן, "is merciful" in heaven, so be ye merciful on earth.'' y Zohar in Lev. fol. 2. 2. 9. 4. 20. 1.

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 SERMON ON THE LEVEL PLACE. This is much briefer than Matthew 5-7. The sections in Mt. that illustrate the fulfilment of the Law are omitted; more stress is laid on love and mercy. Other parallels with Mt.'s Sermon are found elsewhere in Lk.; very little of Lk.'s Sermon (Luke 6:24; Luke 6:34 f. only) is not found in Mt. There are also differences of arrangement. LUKE 6:20. BEATITUDES AND WOES (Matthew 5:1 *). In place of eight blessings we have in Lk. four (shorter) blessings and four contrasted woes; in Lk. Jesus does not qualify the poor (or the hungry); they are, as with the Psalmist, the righteous, and will have their innings in the

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

BE YE. Become ye. MERCIFUL. compassionate. Greek. _oiktirmon._ Occurs only here and James 5:11....