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Luke 11:38
And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that He had not first washed before dinner.
And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that He had not first washed before dinner.
Verse 38. _FIRST WASHED_] See Clarke on Mark 7:2....
SAW IT - Saw that he sat immediately down without washing. MARVELLED - Wondered. Was amazed. It was so unusual, and in his view so improper. HAD NOT FIRST WASHED - He wondered particularly, as he had...
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Prayer Given to the Disciples (Luke 11:1 .)_ 2. The Friend at Midnight. (Luke 11:5) 3. Encouragement to Pray. (Luke 11:11) 4. A Demon Cast Out and the Blasphemous Accusation. ...
CONDEMNATION OF PHARISEES AND SCRIBES._ Cf._ (though the arrangement is different) Matthew 23*, where the Jerusalem setting is more suitable (perhaps Lk. wishes to make the Jerusalem discourses end wi...
After Jesus had spoken a Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He came in and reclined at the table. The Pharisee was surprised when he saw that he did not dip his hands in water before he ate. The Lor...
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WASHED. performed His ablutions. App-115 and App-136. BEFORE. Greek. _pro._ App-104. DINNER. Greek. _ariston._ See note on "dine", Luke 11:37....
_he marvelled that he had not first washed_ Literally, "_bathed."_ No washing was necessary to eat a few dates or figs. At the chief meal of the day, where all dipped their hands into a common dish, i...
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...
ἘΘΑΎΜΑΣΕΝ ὍΤΙ ΟΥ̓ ΠΡΩ͂ΤΟΝ ἘΒΑΠΤΊΣΘΗ. Literally, ‘_bathed_.’ No washing was necessary to eat a few dates or figs. At the chief meal of the day, where all dipped their hands into a common dish, it was a...
THE INVITATION OF THE PHARISEE AND THE OPEN RUPTURE...
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 37. And as he spoke, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him, and he went in, and sat down to meat. 38. And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed before dinne...
_JESUS REBUKED THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES -- LUKE 11:37-54:_ Jesus condemned the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses. As Jesus ate with a Pharisee he was shocked that Jesus did not keep thei...
ΊΔΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΈΘΑΎΜΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Luke 11:14. ΈΒΑΠΤΊΣΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΒΑΠΤΊΖΩ (G907) окунать, мыть; _pass._ мыться. Dir. _med._, вероятно,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Pharisaism (Luke 11:37-54) 37 While he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in and sat at table. 38The Pharisee was astonished to see, that he...
And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. AND WHEN THE PHARISEE SAW IT, HE MARVELED THAT HE HAD NOT FIRST WASHED BEFORE DINNER. See the notes at Mark 7...
27 This is a delicate yet decisive thrust at the slightest tendency toward Mariolatry. Mary was indeed most blessed to be chosen to bear such a Son, but it was a physical relationship, such as He sust...
THE LORD'S PRAYER. THE SIGN OF JONAH 1-4. The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9). See on Mt. If the Lord's Prayer was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion. His version, however (as...
WASHED] lit. 'baptised': see on Mark 7:1. 39-41. See on Matthew 23:25; Matthew 23:26. 'What is the use of you Pharisees cleansing the outward appearance of your conduct (symbolised by the outside of t...
CHRIST IS ENTERTAINED BY A PHARISEE. HE DENOUNCES PHARISAIC FORMALISM AND HYPOCRISY. For the relation of this discourse to Matthew 23:1, see on Matthew 23:1....
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HE MARVELLED THAT HE HAD NOT FIRST WASHED. — See Notes on Matthew 15:2; Mark 7:3. Here the word “washed” (literally, though of course not in the technical sense, _baptized_) implies actual immersion,...
ἐθαύμασεν : the cause of wonder was that Jesus did not _wash_ (ἐβαπτίσθη) before eating. We have here Lk.'s equivalent for the incident in Matthew 15:1 ff., Mark 7:1 ff., omitted by him. But the secon...
_In the house of a Pharisee; criticism of the religion of Pharisees and scribes_ (Matthew 23). This section contains a selection of the hard sayings of Jesus on the “righteousness of the scribes and P...
DARK AND FOUL WITHIN Luke 11:33-44 “The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,” Proverbs 20:27. How many unlit candles there are! Will you not ask whether Christ has ever kindled you with His divi...
Watching the Master at prayer, His disciples were inspired with a desire to pray, and requested that they be taught. He responded to them in a fourfold statement. First, He gave them a model. Then He...
_Washed, &c. There was nothing ordained by the law concerning this washing of the hands, which the Pharisees observed before taking meat. Christ and his apostles washed their hands when they pleased,...
BAPTIZO NOT ALWAYS A TOTAL SUBMERSION, BUT A PURIFICATION Luke 11:37-42. _“But while He was speaking, a Pharisee asked Him that He may dine with him; having come in, lie sat down at the table; and the...
1 _st. To the Pharisees: Luke 11:37-44_. VERS. 37 AND 38. _The Occasion._ This Pharisee had probably been one of the hearers of the previous discourse; perhaps one of the authors of the accusation ra...
(37) And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him. And he went in, and sat down to meat. (38) And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner...
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The prayer which He taught His disciples (chapter 11) has respect also to the position into which they came before the gift of the Holy Ghost. [32] Jesus Himself prayed, as the dependent man on earth....
AND WHEN THE PHARISEE SAW IT,.... That Christ laid himself down on one of the couches and began to eat: HE MARVELLED; that so great a prophet as he was, and a man of so much religion and holiness, sh...
And when the Pharisee saw _it_, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. Ver. 38. _That he had not washed_] This the Pharisees deemed as great a sin as to commit fornication. (Godw. A...
WASHED; in the original, baptized. Great attention may be paid to outward forms and ceremonies, especially when men are taught to depend on them for salvation, and yet their hearts be abominably wicke...
VALUABLE INSTRUCTION AS TO PRAYER (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended in Mary). His...
37-54 We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God ha...
MATTHEW 15:2, the Pharisees quarrelled with the disciples upon this account; here this Pharisee is offended at Christ himself. Mark gives us the reason of it, MARK 7:3, _For the Pharisees, and all the...
Luke 11:38 When G1161 G1161 Pharisee G5330 saw G1492 (G5631) marveled G2296 (G5656) that G3754 had...
THE WOEFUL STATE OF THOSE WHOSE LIGHT IS DARKNESS, AND WHO THEREFORE COME UNDER HIS WOES (11:37-52). But sadly there are those whose eyes turn away from the light. Instead of their eyes being fixed on...
‘Now when he had spoken a Pharisee asks him to dine with him, and he went in, and sat down to meat, and when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first drenched (baptizo) himself before d...
Luke 11:38. WASHED, lit, ‘baptized.' The washing referred to was therefore a _ceremonial_ one, not simply an act of cleanliness. In this ceremony the Pharisees washed their hands, not their whole body...
THIS discourse closely resembles the great denunciation of the Pharisees (Matthew 23); but the circumstances of the two are entirely different; the one was uttered just before our Lord departed solemn...
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...
THAT HE HAD NOT FIRST WASHED BEFORE DINNER (οτ ου πρωτον εβαπτισθη προ του αριστου). The verb is first aorist passive indicative of βαπτιζω, to dip or to immerse. Here it is applied to the hands. It...
Luke 11:14. _And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils thr...
CONTENTS: Jesus' doctrine of prayer. Jesus charged with casting out demons by Beelzebub, and His answer. Woes denounced upon the Pharisees and lawyers. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Jonah, Sol...
Luke 11:1. _Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples._ The disciples of John were eminent for fasting and prayer; and though the prayers of the jews were good, yet they were not exact...
A PHARISEE INVITED HIM TO EAT WITH HIM. Jesus did not hesitate to mix with all classes of people. WAS SURPRISED WHEN HE NOTICED. The Jews had a special ritual for washing their hands. Jesus had not fo...
_A certain Pharisee besought Him to dine with him._ THE PHARISEES REPROVED I. THE INVITATION. 1. The prominence with which the Pharisees figure in our Lord’s life is noticeable. (1) In view of the...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:38 WASH BEFORE DINNER. An extrabiblical tradition (see note on Mark 7:5) involving ceremonial cleanness rather than personal hygiene....
CHAPTER 11 VER. 2. _When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name_. S. Matthew adds this prayer to the sermon on the mount, whilst S. Luke places it at a later period. Either...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 11:37. BESOUGHT.—Simply, “asked” (R.V.). TO DINE.—Rather, “that He would _breakfast_ with him.” The word used means a noon-day meal = our late breakfast or luncheon. Luke 11:38....
EXPOSITION LUKE 11:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the_ _subject of prayer. _Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of _time _or _place _enables us to fix the scene or date with any...
Tonight, chapter 11 in the gospel according to Luke. Again, as Luke is pointing out the human side of Jesus, though He was God, He became man. He is the God-man. He is divine, and yet, He is human. Th...
John 3:25; Mark 7:2; Matthew 15:2; Matthew 15:3...