Luke 7:45

Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. THOU GAVEST ME NO KISS - of salutation. 'How much love was there here? Any at all?' BUT THIS WOMAN SINCE THE TIME I CAME IN HATH NOT CEASED TO KISS MY FEET. She would, in so doing, both hide her head, and get her womanly feelings in a womanly way all expressed. That indeed was 'much love.' But once more,...

36-50 None can truly perceive how precious Christ is, and the glory of the gospel, except the broken-hearted. But while they feel they cannot enough express self-abhorrence on account of sin, and admiration of his mercy, the self-sufficient will be disgusted, because the gospel encourages such repenting sinners. The Pharisee, instead of rejoicing in the tokens of the woman's repentance, confined his thoughts to her former bad character. But without free forgiveness none of us can escape the wrath to come; this our gracious Saviour has purchased with his blood, that he may freely bestow it on every one that believes in him. Christ, by a parable, forced Simon to acknowledge that the greater sinner this woman had been, the greater love she ought to show to Him when her sins were pardoned. Learn here, that sin is a debt; and all are sinners, are debtors to Almighty God. Some sinners are gre...

Verse 45. _SINCE THE TIME I CAME IN_] Rather, _Since the time SHE_ _came in_, αφ' ἡς εισηλθεν, not εισηλθον, I _came in_, for it is clear from Luke 7:37 that the woman came in _after_ Christ, having heard that he was sitting at meat in the Pharisee's house. The reading which I have adopted is supported by several MSS. and _Versions_....

THOU GAVEST ME NO KISS - The kiss was a token of affection or a common mode of salutation, and Simon had even neglected this mark of welcoming him to his house. It was often used among “men” as a sign of salutation. Compare Genesis 33:4; Exodus 18:7; Matthew 26:49. HATH NOT CEASED TO KISS MY FEET - How striking the difference between the conduct of Simon and this woman! He, with all the richness of a splendid preparation, had omitted the common marks of regard and affection. She, in humility, had bowed at his feet, had watered them with tears, and had not ceased to kiss them. The most splendid entertainments do not always express the greatest welcome. Th

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

THOU GAVEST ME NO KISS,.... A token of civility among friends, when they met together on any occasion. The Jews have a saying b, that "all kisses are foolish, excepting three; the kiss of grandeur or dignity, as in 1 Samuel 10:1 and the kiss at parting, as in Ruth 1:14 and the kiss at meeting, as in Exodus 4:27 (of which sort this kiss may be thought to be), to which some add the kiss of consanguinity (or that used by relations to one another), as in Genesis 29:11' BUT THIS WOMAN, SINCE THE TIME I CAME IN. The Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read, "since she came in"; and so two of Stephens's copies; which seems to

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

LUKE 7:45 eivsh/lqon {A} Instead of eivsh/lqon, a few witnesses (L* ¦13 157 1071 _al_) read eivsh/lqen (“[from the time] she came in”), which appears to be an attempt to avoid the suggestion of an exaggeration in “[from the time] I came in.”...

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 .)...

THE ANOINTING OF JESUS. Lk. only; perhaps based on the incident (though not to be identified with it) recorded in Mark 14:3 *, Matthew 26:6 *, and introduced here in illustration of Jesus-' friend ship with sinners (Luke 7:34). Simon the leper is here Simon the Pharisee; the abandoned woman enters uninvited and no one is astonished. Her tears forestall her intention, she even makes the sacrifice of letting down her hair in public. Note _mg._ in Luke 7:37. There is affection here, dignified reverence in Mark 14; toucheth (Luke 7:39) is really clingeth to (_cf._...