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Luke 11:43
Woe unto you, Pharisees! For ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.
Woe unto you, Pharisees! For ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.
Verse 43. _YE LOVE THE UPPERMOST SEATS_] Every one of them affected to be a _ruler_ in the synagogues. Matthew 23:5, Matthew 23:5....
See Matthew 23:6, Matthew 23:27....
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...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
LOVE. App-135. UPPERMOST. Same as "chief" in Matthew 23:6....
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...
_uppermost seats_ These were places in the synagogue in a conspicuous semicircle facing the congregation, and round the _bema_of the reader, Luke 14:7-11; Matthew 23:6. _greetings in the markets_ in w...
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...
THE INVITATION OF THE PHARISEE AND THE OPEN RUPTURE...
ἈΓΑΠΑ͂ΤΕ. ‘_Ye highly value_.’ John 12:43. ΤῊΝ ΠΡΩΤΟΚΑΘΕΔΡΊΑΝ. These were places in the synagogue in a conspicuous semicircle facing the congregation, and round the _bema_ of the reader, Luke 14:7-11;...
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...
ΑΓΑΠΆΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΑΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить. Привычный _praes._ ΠΡΩΤΟΚΑΘΕΔΡΊΑ (G4410) главное место, почетное место, лучшее место. Это была полукруглая скамья вокруг ковчега, обращенная к собра...
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 the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, NOW DO YE PH...
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...
See on Matthew 23:6....
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....
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...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT PRAYER 11:1-13 1 THE PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT 11:1-4 V1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of...
YE LOVE THE UPPERMOST SEATS IN THE SYNAGOGUES. — See Notes on Matthew 23:6....
Pharisaic ostentation is very gently dealt with here compared with the vivid picture in Matthew 23:5-7, partly out of regard to the restraint imposed by the supposed situation, Jesus a guest, partly b...
To this criticism of the externalism of the Pharisees, the only thing strictly relevant to the situation as described, are appended three of Mt.'s “woes” directed against their will-worship in tithing...
_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...
(12) Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets. (12) Hypocrisy and ambition are commonly joined together....
_Salutations in the market-place, &c. Such as wish to be saluted, and have the first places, that they may appear great, are likened to sepulchres, which are covered externally with ornaments, but are...
WOES PRONOUNCED ON THE PHARISEES & THEOLOGIANS Luke 11:42-54. _“But woe unto you Pharisees, because you tithe mint, anise, and every herb, and you pass by judgment and the love of God; it behooveth yo...
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...
(42) But, woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgement, and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. (43...
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 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....
WOE UNTO YOU PHARISEES, FOR YE LOVE THE UPPERMOST SEATS IN THE SYNAGOGUES,.... And also the uppermost rooms at feasts, Matthew 23:6 AND GREETINGS IN THE MARKET; Matthew 23:6 and Matthew 23:7
Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets. Ver. 43. See Matthew 23:6 ....
_Wo unto you, for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues_, &c. Here he denounces the judgment of God against them for their pride, which was so excessive, that it appeared in their carriage in...
UPPERMOST SEATS-AND GREETINGS; the most honorable places and public salutations. Matthew 23:6-7....
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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:6", SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:7". Their fault was not in their taking them, but in their affecting them, and in being ambitious of them. God is the God of order, and we are bou...
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third and ye be shut out with all your goods beyond the gate of the tower. Wherefore I now say to you who preside over the Church and love the first seats,[40] Clement of A...
Luke 11:43 Woe G3759 you G5213 Pharisees G5330 For G3754 love G25 (G5719) seats G4410 in G1722 synagogues...
“Woe to you Pharisees! for you love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.” His next criticism is their attitude towards life. There too they reveal their superior...
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...
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...
THE CHIEF SEATS IN THE SYNAGOGUES (την πρωτοκαθεδριαν εν ταις συναγωγαις). Singular here, plural in Matthew 23:6. This semi-circular bench faced the congregation. Matthew 23:6 has also the chief pla...
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...
SO THE LORD SAID TO HIM. Jesus may have said this more than once. See notes on a similar lesson in Matthew 23:1-36; Luke 11:41 is only given by Luke. The Jewish leaders hated everybody who was not a p...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:42 Jesus directs three woes against the Pharisees (see note on Matt. 23:13). The woes are a combination of criticism and sorrow. TITHE... EVERY HERB. Such spe
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...
3 John 1:9; James 2:2; Luke 14:7; Luke 20:46; Mark 12:38;...
Pharisees [τ ο ι ς φ α ρ ι σ α ι ο ι ς]. Luke's form of expression differs from that of Matthew, who says, "ye Pharisees; while Luke has" woe unto you, the Pharisees, " marking them by the article as...
The next woe denounced against the Pharisees is for their ambition, pride, and popularity, affecting the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the markets; where their fault was, not i...