Luke 7:21

And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things. For the circumstances of the Baptist's imprisonment, see the notes at Mark 6:17. He had now lain in prison probably a full year, far away from the scene of his Master's labours. But his faithful disciples appear from time to time to have kept him informed of them. At length the tidings they brought him, including no doubt those of the resurrection of the widow of Nain's son from the dead, appear to have determined the lonely prisoner to take a step which probably he had often thought of, but until now shrunk from. Verse 18. AND THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN SHOWED HIM OF ALL THESE THINGS. Verse 19. AND JOHN CALLING UNTO HIM TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES, [ duo (G1417)...

19-35 To his miracles in the kingdom of nature, Christ adds this in the kingdom of grace, To the poor the gospel is preached. It clearly pointed out the spiritual nature of Christ's kingdom, that the messenger he sent before him to prepare his way, did it by preaching repentance and reformation of heart and life. We have here the just blame of those who were not wrought upon by the ministry of John Baptist or of Jesus Christ himself. They made a jest of the methods God took to do them good. This is the ruin of multitudes; they are not serious in the concerns of their souls. Let us study to prove ourselves children of Wisdom, by attending the instructions of God's word, and adoring those mysteries and glad tidings which infidels and Pharisees deride and blaspheme....

Verse Luke 7:21. _INFIRMITIES AND PLAGUES_] The following judicious note from Bp. PEARCE is worthy of deep attention: "Luke mentions here νοσοι, μαϚιγες, _leprosias_, and πνευματα πονηρα, i.e. diseases or ill habits of body, sores or lamenesses, and evil spirits: from whence we may conclude that _evil spirits_ are reckoned by him (who speaks of distempers with more accuracy than the other evangelists) as things _different_ from any disorders of the _body_, included in the two former words." _UNTO MANY_ THAT WERE _BLIND HE GAVE LIGHT._] Rather, _he kindly gave_ _sight _- εχαρισατο το βλεπειν; or, _he graciously gave sight_. This is the proper meaning of the original words. In all his miracles, Jesus showed the tenderest mercy and kindness: not only the _cure_, but the _manner_ in which he performed it,

See this passage explained in Matthew 11:2. Luke 7:29 THE PEOPLE - The common people. THAT HEARD HIM - That heard “John.” THE PUBLICANS - The tax-gatherers, the worst kind of people, who had, however, been converted. JUSTIFIED GOD - Considered God as “just” or “right” in the counsel which he gave by John - to wit, in calling people to repentance, and in denouncing future wrath on the impenitent. Compare Matthew 11:19. BEING BAPTIZED ... - They “showed” that they approved of the me

EXPOSITION LUKE 7:1 The _servant _(_or slave_)_ of the centurion of Capernaum is healed._ LUKE 7:1 NOW WHEN HE HAD ENDED ALL HIS SAYINGS. This clearly refers to the sermon on the mount. That great discourse evidently occupied a position of its own in the public ministry of the Lord. Its great length, its definite announcement of the kind of reign he was inaugurating over the hearts of men, its stern rebuke of the dominant religious teaching of the day, its grave prophetic onlooks,—all marked it out as the great manifesto of the new Master, and as such it seems to have been generally received. HE ENTERED INTO CAPERNAUM. The residence of Jesus, as we have before pointed out, during the greater part of hi

AND IN THAT SAME HOUR,.... Or at that same time, for a precise hour is not intended: one exemplar reads, "in that day", in which these men came to Christ, HE, Jesus, as the Persic version expresses it, CURED MANY OF THEIR INFIRMITIES; bodily weaknesses and disorders: and plagues; which were inflicted on them as scourges and corrections for sin, very severe diseases, as epilepsies, leprosies, palsies, c. and of evil spirits or devils, which he dispossessed and commanded out of the bodies of men; though sometimes evil spirits, with the Jews, signify some kinds of bodily diseases: as when it is said i "whoever puts out a lamp because he is afraid of Gentiles, or of thieves, or of רוח רעה, "an evil spirit", or because of a sick man that is asleep, he is free.'' Upon which Maimonides observes, "an evil spirit they call all kinds of diseases, which, in the Arabic language, go by the name...

Luke 7:18. _And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things._ John was in prison, and, possibly, troubled in spirit. Luke 7:19. _And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus saying, art thou he that should come? or look we for another?_ Did John doubt, then? Perhaps not. It may be that he saw that his disciples doubted, and that he wished their fears to be removed. It is possible, however, that he did himself have doubts. It is no unusual thing for the bravest hearts to be subject to fits of doubt. Elijah, you remember sat under a juniper tree in the wilderness, «and he requested for himself that he might die,» though he was the man who never was to die. And John, the Elijah of the Christian dispensation, though a man of iron, was but a man, so he se

CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Centurion's Servant Healed. (Luke 7:1 .)_ 2. The Widow's Son Raised from the Dead. (Luke 7:11) 3. John's Questions and the Answer. (Luke 7:18) 4. The Testimony Concerning John. (Luke 7:24) 5. The Unreasonableness of Unbelief. (Luke 7:30 .) 6. The Woman With the Alabaster Box. (Luke 7:36) 7. The Parable of the Two Debtors. (Luke 7:41 .)...

JOHN THE BAPTIST (Matthew 11:1 *). According to Lk., John's disciples have access to him, and Jesus is engaged in works of healing in the very hour of the embassy. Luke 7:21 looks as if Lk. were bent on making the answer of Jesus (which may have referred to His moral and spiritual activities) into a definite reference to material signs. In Luke 7:26 the text may have been accommodated to Mt.; it has been suggested that we should read. Yea, I say unto you: among them that are born of woman there is no greater [prophet (Syr. Sin.)] than John, yet he that is less [than he (Codex Bezæ)] is in the Kingdom of God greater than he. Lk. postpones Matthew

A SOLDIER'S FAITH (Luke 7:1-10)...