Luke 8:18

And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 4:1....

4-21 There are many very needful and excellent rules and cautions for hearing the word, in the parable of the sower, and the application of it. Happy are we, and for ever indebted to free grace, if the same thing that is a parable to others, with which they are only amused, is a plain truth to us, by which we are taught and governed. We ought to take heed of the things that will hinder our profiting by the word we hear; to take heed lest we hear carelessly and slightly, lest we entertain prejudices against the word we hear; and to take heed to our spirits after we have heard the word, lest we lose what we have gained. The gifts we have, will be continued to us or not, as we use them for the glory of God, and the good of our brethren. Nor is it enough not to hold the truth in unrighteousness; we should desire to hold forth the word of life, and to shine, giving light to all around. Great...

Verse Luke 8:18. _EVEN THAT WHICH HE SEEMETH TO HAVE._] Or rather, _even_ _what he hath_. ο δοκει εχειν, rendered by our common version, _what_ _he seemeth to have_, seems to me to contradict itself. Let us examine this subject a little. 1. To _seem_ to have a thing, is only to have it in _appearance_, and not in _reality_; but what is possessed in _appearance_ only can only be taken away in _appearance_; therefore on the one side there is no _gain_, and on the other side no _loss_. On this ground, the text speaks just nothing. 2. It is evident that ο δοκει εχειν, _what he seemeth to have_, here, is equivalent to οεχει, _what he hath_, in the parallel places, Mark 4:25;...

See the notes at Mark 4:21....

EXPOSITION LUKE 8:1 _St. Luke_'_s brief notice of the women who formed part of the company of Jesus._ LUKE 8:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTERWARD. St. Luke here notices an alteration in the Master's way of life. From this time forward Jesus ceased to make Capernaum "his city," his usual residence; he now journeys with his little band of followers from place to place. From this time there was also a distinct change in the tone of his teaching. The Greek word rendered "afterward" is the same as that translated "in order" in Luke 1:3. SHOWING THE GLAD TIDINGS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD. The public work of Jesus may be well arranged under three hea

TAKE HEED THEREFORE HOW YE HEAR,.... That ye hear not in a careless and negligent manner, since what truths and doctrines ye now hear with the ear, are to be preached by you unto others: FOR WHOSOEVER HATH; that is, hath knowledge of the doctrines of the Gospel, and hath gifts and abilities to preach them to others: TO HIM SHALL BE GIVEN; more knowledge, and by using his gifts they shall be increased: BUT HE THAT HATH NOT; true, solid, spiritual knowledge of divine things, though he has had considerable advantages and opportunities of learning it, as the apostles especially had: FROM HIM SHALL BE TAKEN, EVEN THAT WHICH HE SEEMETH TO HAVE; or "that which he thinks he has", as the Syriac version renders it; that which he seemed to others to have, or thought himself he had: the knowledge he had of truth, and which was rather a show of knowledge than real, shall be taken from him; his se...

Luke 8:1. _And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,_ Our Lord's display of forgiving grace to the woman who was a sinner seemed to whet his appetite for soul-saving, so that «he went throughout every city and village, preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God.» Dear friends, whenever we win a soul for God, let it spur us on to a greater diligence in his service, let it make us insatiable for more of this best wine of the kingdom of heaven. It was so with our Divine Master. He went about preaching; and, as he preached, he was training others also to preach: «the twelve were with him.» I think that, whenever there is a successful ministry, there should be those round about who are being trained to continue it. Among the Waldensians, the pasto...

CHAPTER 8 __ 1. The Ministering Company (Luke 8:1 .) 2. The Parable of the Sower. (Luke 8:4 .) 3. The Parable of the Lighted Candle. (Luke 8:16) 4. The Declaration of a New Relationship. (Luke 8:19 .) 5. The Storm on the Lake. (Luke 8:22) 6. In the Country of the Gadarenes; the Maniac Healed. (Luke 8:26) 7. His Rejection by the Gadarenes. (Luke 8:37 .) 8. The Wo

THE LAMP (Mark 4:21 *) Luke 8:16 is repeated at Luke 11:33; Luke 11:17 at Luke 12:2; Luke 12:18_ b_ at Luke 19:26....

ON THE ROAD (Luke 8:1-3)...