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Luke 10:31
And by chance there came down a certain priest that way; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
And by chance there came down a certain priest that way; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
Verse Luke 10:31. _AND BY CHANCE_] κατα συγκυριαν properly means the _coincidence_ of _time_ and _circumstance_. At the time in which the poor Jew was half dead, through the wounds which he had receiv...
BY CHANCE - Accidentally, or as it happened. It means that he did not do it with a “design” to aid the man that was wounded. A CERTAIN PRIEST - It is said that not less than 12,000 priests and Levite...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Seventy Appointed. (Luke 10:1)_ 2. The Return of the Seventy and the True Rejoicing. (Luke 10:17) 3. Jesus Rejoiced in Spirit. (Luke 10:21) 4. The Question of the Lawyer. ...
THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT (Mark 12:28 *, Matthew 22:34 *), and the PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN (Lk. only). The inquirer puts his question in a different form, but the meaning is the same. And in Lk....
Look you--an expert in the law stood up and asked Jesus a test question. "Teacher, he said, "What is it I am to do to become the possessor of eternal life?" He said to him, "What stands written in the...
LABOURERS FOR THE HARVEST (Luke 10:1-16)...
BY. according to. Greek _kata._ App-104. chance. coincidence. Occurs only here in N.T. THERE CAME DOWN. was going down; his duties being over. Jericho was. priestly city, PRIEST. Who might become de...
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
_by chance_ Rather, BY COINCIDENCE, I.E. at the same time. The word -chance" (τύχη) does not occur in Scripture. The nearest approach to it is the participle τυχὸν in 1 Corinthians 15:37 (if τυγχάνοντ...
ΚΑΤᾺ ΣΥΓΚΥΡΊΑΝ. ‘By coincidence.’ i.e. at the same time. The word ‘chance’ (τύχη) does not occur in Scripture. The nearest approach to it is the participle τυχὸν in 1 Corinthians 15:37 (if τυγχάνοντα...
THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
Ver 29. But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor? 30. And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripp...
_THE GOOD SAMARITAN -- LUKE 10:25-37:_ A lawyer asked Jesus "Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus asked this man what the Scriptures said about eternal life. He said, "Love the Lord...
ΣΥΓΚΥΡΊΑ (G4795) совпадение. Это не было заранее организовано или спланировано (Arndt). ΊΔΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΆΝΤΙΠΑΡΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΤΙΠΑΡΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G492)...
DISCOURSE: 1516 THE GOOD SAMARITAN Luke 10:30. A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him...
AND BY CHANCE— Κατα συγκυριαν. Dr. Gill says, this word may as well be derived from the word συν and Κυριος _the Lord,_ as from συγκυρειν, _to happen;_ and so we may render the words, _by divine Provi...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Promoting Kindness (Luke 10:25-37) 25 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 26He said to him, Wh...
And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. AND BY CHANCE THERE CAME DOWN A CERTAIN PRIEST THAT WAY. Jericho, the second city of J...
25 A lawyer, or one versed in the law of Moses, especially in making it a burden for others than themselves (Luk_11:46), would naturally be interested in the Lord's opinion as to what deeds would meri...
THE SEVENTY. THE GOOD SAMARITAN. MARTHA AND MARY 1-16. Choice and mission of the Seventy (peculiar to Lk). Another step in the organisation of the Church. The Seventy receive a subordinate commission,...
PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN (peculiar to Lk). This lawyer is not to be identified with that of Matthew 22:3; Mark 12:28 25-28. See on Matthew 22:35....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS SENDS OUT MORE *DISCIPLES 10:1-12 V1 After this, the *Lord chose 72 other *disciples and sent them out in pairs. He told them to go ahead of...
BY CHANCE.... — The passage is the only one in the New Testament in which the phrase occurs. Our Lord seems to use it as with a touch of what we have elsewhere termed irony. It seemed so casual, as su...
CHAPTER 19 THE GOOD SAMARITAN. Luke 10:25 IT would scarcely have accorded with the traditions of human nature had the teachers of religion looked favorably upon Jesus. Stepping, as He did, within th...
κατὰ συγκυρίαν (συγκυρία, from συνκυρέω), rare, late Greek = κατὰ συντυχίαν (Hesychius, συγκυρία, συντυχία), by chance; the probabilities against succour being at hand just when sorely wanted; still m...
_The story of the good Samaritan_, commonly called a parable, but really not such in the strict sense of natural things used as vehicle of spiritual truth; an example rather than a symbol; the first o...
_The lawyer's question, and the parable of the good Samaritan_. Many critics (even Weiss, Mk.-Evang., p. 400) think that Lk. or his source has got the theme of this section from Matthew 22:35 ff., Mar...
THE MAN WHO LOVED HIS NEIGHBOR Luke 10:25-37 This parable was probably suggested by the journey up to Jerusalem. It may be founded on an actual occurrence. Notice how the Master answered the inquiry,...
The mission of the seventy is recorded only by Luke. They went forth, sent by Jesus. They returned glad in the victories they had wrought in His name. He received them, and declared to them the whole...
Our Saviour here shews the Jewish priests how preposterous was their behaviour, who, though scrupulously exact in performing all external acts of religion, entirely neglected piety, mercy, and other m...
THE GOOD SAMARITAN Luke 10:29-37. “And he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor? And Jesus, responding, said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell a...
_The good Samaritan._ How is such love to be attained? This would have been the question put by the scribe, had be been in the state of soul which Paul describes Romans 7, and which is the normal pre...
_The Priest and the Levite._ Lightfoot has proved that the Rabbins did not, in general, regard as their neighbours those who were not members of the Jewish nation. Perhaps the subject afforded matter...
(25) And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? (26) He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? (27) And he...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
The mission of the seventy follows in chapter 10, a mission important in its character for the development of the ways of God. This character is, in fact, different in some respects from that of the b...
AND BY CHANCE THERE CAME DOWN A CERTAIN PRIEST THAT WAY,.... Who had been at Jerusalem, to take his turn in the courses, and was now returning to Jericho, where the stationary men were, to which he be...
And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. Ver. 31. _And by chance_] Indeed by the providence of God overruling the matter, as it do...
_But he, willing to justify himself_ That is, to show he had done this, and was blameless, even with respect to the duties which are least liable to be counterfeited, namely, the social and relative d...
BY CHANCE; without any design to help the Jew, or knowledge of his condition....
THE SENDING OF SEVENTY OTHERS (vs.1-16) As we progress in this Gospel, earthly things tend to recede and heaven comes gradually more into view, specially following the transfiguration (ch.9:8-36) an...
25-37 If we speak of eternal life, and the way to it, in a careless manner, we take the name of God in vain. No one will ever love God and his neighbour with any measure of pure, spiritual love, who...
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“And by chance a certain priest was going down that way, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.” As we see above this verse is central to the chiasmus indicating its central importance....
THE TESTING OF JESUS AND THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN (10:25-37). We should note that this passage, and the parable it contains, follows directly on the idea of the previous self-revelation of Je...
THIS incident, peculiar to Luke, must be distinguished from a later one, mentioned by Matthew, Mark, and Luke, namely, that of the rich young ruler whom Jesus loved. A similar question was put in that...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
Luke 10:31. BY CHANCE. In the language of common life. As a fact, most opportunities of doing good come as it were ‘by chance,' though providentially ordered of God. A CERTAIN PRIEST WAS GOING, etc....
BY CHANCE (κατα συγκυριαν). Here only in the N.T., meaning rather, "by way of coincidence." It is a rare word elsewhere and in late writers like Hippocrates. It is from the verb συγκυρεω, though συ...
Luke 10:25 The Good Samaritan. I. It is clear that the kindness of this man was of the spirit, and not merely of the letter. Here was one main point of difference between him and the priest and Levi...
Luke 10:25. _And, behold a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?_ That was...
Luke 10:25. _And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy hear...
CONTENTS: The 70 sent out. Jesus denounces Judgment on cities. Parable of the good Samaritan. Martha and Mary entertain Jesus. CHARACTERS: Jesus, 70 witnesses, Satan, lawyer, Martha, Mary. CONCLUSION...
Luke 10:1. _The Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two._ This was after the twelve had returned, and brought reports of the eager cries of the people for the word of life. Some o...
THERE WAS A MAN. A Jew, from Jerusalem. WHO WAS GOING DOWN. The road from Jerusalem to Jericho descends over 3,000 feet in eighteen miles. WHEN ROBBERS ATTACKED HIM. This road was dangerous to travel,...
_And who is my neighbour?_ SELF-JUSTIFICATION The lawyer said--“Then comes his own particular plea or excuse, to which I intend to pay little or no attention now, it was so completely and triumphant...
PASSING ON AND PASSING IT ON He passed by on the other side. Luke 10:31. I AM going to speak to you this morning about “passing on” and “passing it on.” What have these two things to do with each o...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 10:31 PASSED BY ON THE OTHER SIDE. A good picture of the priest’s unwillingness to love his neighbor. ⇐...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 10:25 The parable of the good Samaritan is an example of how the “wise and understanding” (v. Luke 10:21) do not understand even the simplest commands of Scripture (compare v....
CHAPTER 10 VER. 1. _After these things the Lord also._ Seventy-two. Vulgate. Dorotheus and others profess to give their names, but Eusebius declares that he knew of no written list of these seventy di...
_And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side_. By chance, humanly speaking, but really by the providence of God, for all things are for...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 10:25. A CERTAIN LAWYER.—One whose business it was to teach the law. It was probably in Judæa that this conversation was held; as we read (Luke 10:38) that Jesus was on His way t...
EXPOSITION LUKE 10:1 _The mission of the seventy. The Lord_'_s words to them of instruction and direction and warning._ LUKE 10:1 AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED OTHER SEVENTY ALSO. That is...
Now in chapter 10, we read of this commissioning in the sending forth of the seventy, in the contrast to the twelve of chapter 9. After these things (Luke 10:1) Now He is on His way towards Jerusale...
1 John 3:16; 2 Samuel 1:6; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:9;...
By chance [κ α τ α σ υ γ κ υ ρ ι α ν]. Only here in New Testament. The word means, literally, a coincidence. By coincidence of circumstances. There came down. Imperfect, was going down, as Rev. Pries...
THE MESSAGE OF THE JERICHO ROAD Luke 10:25 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. THE MAN WHO MADE HIS BOAST OF THE LAW A certain lawyer tempted Christ, asking Him what he should do to inherit eternal life. The Lor...
The common translation is, by chance — Which is full of gross improprieties. For if we speak strictly, there is no such thing in the universe as either chance or fortune. A certain priest came down th...