Luke 13:1-5
LAST ADMONITIONS TO REPENTANCE. The lesson of the Galilean tragedy:... [ Continue Reading ]
LAST ADMONITIONS TO REPENTANCE. The lesson of the Galilean tragedy:... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WERE PRESENT AT THAT SEASON SOME THAT TOLD HIM OF THE GALILEANS WHOSE BLOOD PILATE HAD MINGLED WITH THEIR SACRIFICES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, ANSWERING, SAID UNTO THEM, SUPPOSE YE THAT THESE GALILEANS WERE SINNERS ABOVE ALL THE GALILEANS BECAUSE THEY SUFFERED SUCH THINGS?... [ Continue Reading ]
I TELL YOU, HAY; BUT EXCEPT YE REPENT, YE SHALL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH.... [ Continue Reading ]
OR THOSE EIGHTEEN UPON WHOM THE TOWER IN SILOAM FELL AND SLEW THEM, THINK YE THAT THEY WERE SINNERS ABOVE ALL MEN THAT DWELT IN JERUSALEM?... [ Continue Reading ]
I TELL YOU, NAY; BUT EXCEPT YE REPENT, YE SHALL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH. At the same time, upon the same occasion, when Jesus had spoken the words of solemn warning concerning the Judgment and how to avert it. The current opinion was that there was a direct connection between the greatness of the transg... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SPAKE ALSO THIS PARABLE: A CERTAIN MAN HAD A FIG-TREE PLANTED IN HIS VINEYARD; AND HE CAME AND SOUGHT FRUIT THEREON, AND FOUND NONE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The parable of the fig-tree:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID HE UNTO THE DRESSER OF HIS VINEYARD, BEHOLD, THESE THREE YEARS I COME SEEKING FRUIT ON THIS FIG-TREE, AND FIND NONE; CUT IT DOWN; WHY CUMBERETH IT THE GROUND?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE, ANSWERING, SAID UNTO HIM, LORD, LET IT ALONE THIS YEAR ALSO, TILL I SHALL DIG ABOUT IT AND DUNG IT;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF IT BEAR FRUIT, WELL; AND IF NOT, THEN AFTER THAT THOU SHALT CUT IT DOWN. A word-picture preaching an earnest lesson. A certain man, apparently one of means, had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, in good soil, from which he naturally expected fruit. He waited for some time, but finally he vo... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CRIPPLED WOMAN HEALED. The healing on the Sabbath:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WAS TEACHING IN ONE OF THE SYNAGOGUES ON THE SABBATH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A WOMAN WHICH HAD A SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY EIGHTEEN YEARS, AND WAS BOWED TOGETHER, AND COULD IN NO WISE LIFT UP HERSELF.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN JESUS SAW HER, HE CALLED HER TO HIM, AND SAID UNTO HER, WOMAN, THOU ART LOOSED FROM THINE INFIRMITY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE LAID HIS HANDS ON HER; AND IMMEDIATELY SHE WAS MADE STRAIGHT, AND GLORIFIED GOD. Jesus, in accordance with the purpose indicated in the parable, did not cease His efforts to win the Jews to the Word of salvation. He continued His custom of teaching in the synagogues on the Sabbath-days. And s... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE ANSWERED WITH INDIGNATION BECAUSE THAT JESUS HAD HEALED ON THE SABBATH-DAY, AND SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE, THERE ARE SIX DAYS IN WHICH MEN OUGHT TO WORK; IN THEM THEREFORE COME AND BE HEALED, AND NOT ON THE SABBATH-DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ's defense against the ruler of the synagogue:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD THEN ANSWERED HIM AND SAID, THOU HYPOCRITE, DOTH NOT EACH ONE OF YOU ON THE SABBATH LOOSE HIS OX OR HIS ASS FROM THE STALL, AND LEAD HIM AWAY TO WATERING?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND OUGHT NOT THIS WOMAN, BEING A DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM, WHOM SATAN HATH BOUND, LO, THESE EIGHTEEN YEARS, BE LOOSED FROM THIS BOND ON THE SABBATH-DAY?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THESE THINGS, ALL HIS ADVERSARIES WERE ASHAMED; AND ALL THE PEOPLE REJOICED FOR ALL THE GLORIOUS THINGS THAT WERE DONE BY HIM. How deeply ingrained was the idea of mechanical Sabbath observance in the mind of the average Jewish teacher is evident from this incident. The ruler of... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID HE, UNTO WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD LIKE, AND WHEREUNTO SHALL I RESEMBLE IT?... [ Continue Reading ]
PARABLES AND TEACHINGS. The parables of the mustard-seed and the leaven:... [ Continue Reading ]
IT IS LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD-SEED, WHICH A MAN TOOK AND CAST INTO HIS GARDEN; AND IT GREW AND WAXED A GREAT TREE; AND THE FOWLS OF THE AIR LODGED IN THE BRANCHES OF IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AGAIN HE SAID, WHEREUNTO SHALL I LIKEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD?... [ Continue Reading ]
IT IS LIKE LEAVEN, WHICH A WOMAN TOOK AND HID IN THREE MEASURES OF MEAL, TILL THE WHOLE WAS LEAVENED. In the effort to bring the great truths of the kingdom of God home to His hearers, to teach them in what way the Word takes hold of the hearts and exerts its wonderful power upon them, in what manne... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WENT THROUGH THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING, AND JOURNEYING TOWARD JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
Entering in at the strait gate:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID ONE UNTO HIM, LORD, ARE THERE FEW THAT BE SAVED? AND HE SAID UNTO THEM,... [ Continue Reading ]
STRIVE TO ENTER IN AT THE STRAIT GATE; FOR MANY, I SAY UNTO YOU, WILL SEEK TO ENTER IN, AND SHALL NOT BE ABLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN ONCE THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE IS RISEN UP AND HATH SHUT TO THE DOOR, AND YE BEGIN TO STAND WITHOUT AND TO KNOCK AT THE DOOR, SAYING, LORD, LORD, OPEN UNTO US; AND HE SHALL ANSWER AND SAY UNTO YOU, I KNOW YOU NOT WHENCE YE ARE,... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SHALL YE BEGIN TO SAY, WE HAVE EATEN AND DRUNK IN THY PRESENCE, AND THOU HAST TAUGHT IN OUR STREETS.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE SHALL SAY, I TELL YOU, I KNOW YOU NOT WHENCE YE ARE; DEPART FROM ME, ALL YE WORKERS OF INIQUITY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE SHALL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH WHEN YE SHALL SEE ABRAHAM, AND ISAAC, AND JACOB, AND ALL THE PROPHETS IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND YOU YOURSELVES THRUST OUT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SHALL COME FROM THE EAST, AND FROM THE WEST, AND FROM THE NORTH, AND FROM THE SOUTH, AND SHALL SIT DOWN IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, THERE ARE LAST WHICH SHALL BE FIRST, AND THERE ARE FIRST WHICH SHALL BE LAST. The final goal of Jesus was Jerusalem; thither He was making His way by easy stages. But, according to His plan, He stopped in the cities and villages along the way, continuing the work of His ministry with un... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SAME DAY THERE CAME CERTAIN OF THE PHARISEES, SAYING UNTO HIM, GET THEE OUT AND DEPART HENCE; FOR HEROD WILL KILL THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The warning against Herod:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, GO YE AND TELL THAT FOX, BEHOLD, I CAST OUT DEVILS, AND I DO CURES TODAY AND TOMORROW, AND THE THIRD DAY I SHALL BE PERFECTED.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEVERTHELESS I MUST WALK TODAY AND TOMORROW AND THE DAY FOLLOWING; FOR IT CANNOT BE THAT A PROPHET PERISH OUT OF JERUSALEM. Jesus was still in the territory of Herod Antipas, and this man was being driven by the furies of an evil conscience. Whether Jesus was John the Baptist resurrected or not, He... [ Continue Reading ]
O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, WHICH KILLEST THE PROPHETS, AND STONEST THEM THAT ARE SENT UNTO THEE, HOW OFTEN WOULD I HAVE GATHERED THY CHILDREN TOGETHER, AS A HEN DOTH GATHER HER BROOD UNDER HER WINGS, AND YE WOULD NOT!... [ Continue Reading ]
A cry of sorrow over Jerusalem:... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE; AND VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, YE SHALL NOT SEE ME UNTIL THE TIME COME WHEN YE SHALL SAY, BLESSED IS HE THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. See Matthew 23:37. Luke adds this cry of Jesus at this point, and it is more than likely that Jesus spoke these words... [ Continue Reading ]