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Luke 24:45
Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures,
Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures,
Verse 45. _THEN OPENED HE THEIR UNDERSTANDING_] διηνοιξεν, _He_ _fully opened_. They had a _measure_ of _light_ before, so that they discerned the Scriptures to be the _true word_ of God, and to spea...
OPENED HE THEIR UNDERSTANDING - Enabled them fully to comprehend the meaning of the prophecies which foretold his death and resurrection. They had seen him die, they now saw him risen. Their prejudice...
VII. HIS RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION CHAPTER 24 _ 1. The Resurrection. (Luke 24:1)_ 2. The Walk to Emmaus; the Appearance of the Risen Son of Man. (Luke 24:13) 3. The Appearance to the Eleven. (Luk...
THE LAST WORDS AND THE ASCENSION. Jesus reminds His disciples how He had told them that Scripture predictions about Him must be fulfilled. He goes over the ground again (with Luke 24:45 _cf._ Luke 24:...
THE WRONG PLACE TO LOOK (Luke 24:1-12)...
While they were still speaking, Jesus stood in the midst of them, and said to them, "Peace to you!" They were terrified and afraid, because they thought that they were seeing a spirit. He said to them...
OPENED, &c. For this important truth, see Matthew 11:27; Matthew 13:11; Matthew 16:17; John 16:13.
_opened he their understanding_ Spiritual things can only be spiritually discerned, 1 Corinthians 2:10-13. On this most important truth see Matthew 11:27; Matthew 13:11;...
ΔΙΉΝΟΙΞΕΝ. Spiritual things can only be spiritually discerned, 1 Corinthians 2:10-13. On this most important truth see Matthew 11:27; Matthew 13:11;...
APPEARANCE OF JESUS TO THE APOSTLES...
Ver 45. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures, 46. And said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the thi...
ΔΙΉΝΟΙΞΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Luke 24:31. ΣΥΝΙΈΝΑΙ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΣΥΝΊΗΜΙ (G4920) понимать, усваивать. _Inf._ результата....
THEN OPENED HE THEIR UNDERSTANDING,— That is, he strengthened and enlarged their understandings, so as to make them comprehend the meaning of the inspired writings; several passages of which he now ex...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Jesus-' Appearance to the Eleven Scripture_ Luke 24:36-49 And as they spake these things, he himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. 37 But t...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Eleven Commissioned, Again (Luke 24:44-53) 44 Then he said to them, These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me...
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, THEN OPENED HE THEIR UNDERSTANDING, THAT THEY MIGHT UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES. A statement of unspeakable value: expre...
22 Compare 1-11 24 Compare 12 Joh_20:2-16 36-40 Compare Mar_16:14; Joh_20:19-23 39 The nature of our Lord's resurrection is nowhere more clearly revealed than in His efforts to convince the trembli...
THE RESURRECTION AND THE ASCENSION 1-11. Two angels appear to the women at the sepulchre (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:1 : cp. John 20:1). See on Mt and Jn....
Summary of instructions given during the Forty Days. 44. The law.. the prophets.. the psalms stand for the three divisions of the OT. Canon recognised by the Jews. The 'Prophets' include the historic...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 24 THE *RESURRECTION 24:1-12 V1 Very early on the first day of the week, the women went to the *tomb. They carried the *spices that they had prepared...
THEN OPENED HE THEIR UNDERSTANDING. — Assuming, as we must assume, that this was the same meeting of the Lord with His disciples as that reported in John 20:22, we have here that which corresponds wit...
CHAPTER 26 THE FIRST LORD'S DAY. THE Sabbath came and went over the grave of its Lord, and silence reigned in Joseph's garden, broken only by the mailed sentinels, who laughed and chatted by, the sea...
points to detailed exposition of Messianic texts, generally referred to in Luke 24:44, as in the case of the two brethren....
_Parting words_. εἶπε δὲ αὐτοῖς : it is at this point, if anywhere, that room must be made for an extended period of occasional intercourse between Jesus and His disciples such as Acts 1:3 speaks of....
“WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS” Luke 24:44-53 The risen Savior is the key to Scripture. The pages of Holy Writ need the illumination that falls from His face. Whenever you open the Old Testament, descri...
No human eye saw the resurrection. The women came early, but only to find the stone rolled away. The record of those earliest experiences is full of touching beauty. Luke alone gives us the story of t...
If, after all the extraordinary opportunities of instruction, which the apostles had had from the mouth of our divine Saviour, it was still necessary that he should instil into them a new light, by op...
JESUS APPEARS TO THE APOSTLES SUNDAY NIGHT Luke 24:36-49; John 20:19-23. “ _Then_, _it being evening on that day_, _the first day of the week_, _and the doors being shut where the disciples were assem...
5. _The last Instructions: Luke 24:44-49_. VERS. 44-49. Meyer, Bleek, and others think that all the sayings which follow were uttered this same evening, and that the ascension itself must, according t...
"And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
45._Then he opened their understanding. _As the Lord had formerly discharged the office of Teacher, with little or no improvement on the part of the disciples, he now begins to teach them inwardly by...
But the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, had prepared everything for the burial of His Son, who had glorified Him by giving Himself up to death. He is with the rich in His death. Jos...
THEN OPENED HE THEIR UNDERSTANDING,.... He not only opened their hearts, to attend to what he said, and the proofs he gave of his resurrection from the dead in a true body; but he removed the veil fro...
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, Ver. 45. _Then opened he their understanding_] He enlightened both organ and object, as Acts 16:14 ....
_And he said to them_ Not, as appears, on the day of his resurrection, but on that of his ascension. _These are the words which I spake to you_ In private, frequently; _while I was yet with you_ Dwell...
UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES; those portions of them which foretold his death and resurrection, which they did not correctly understand before....
HE IS NOT HERE. BUT RISEN (vs.1-12) Though these dear women came to the grave very early in the morning the first day of the week, they were too late. Mary of Bethany had anointed the Lord Jesus befo...
36-49 Jesus appeared in a miraculous manner, assuring the disciples of his peace, though they had so lately forsaken him, and promising spiritual peace with every blessing. Many troublesome thoughts...
He did not open their understanding without the Scriptures, he sends them thither; and he knew the Scriptures would not sufficiently give them a knowledge of him, and the things of God, without the in...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews Again, in the Pslams, David says: "Bring to God, ye countries of the nations"-undoubtedly because "unto every land" the preaching of the apostles had to "go out"[76]...
Luke 24:45 And G5119 opened G1272 (G5656) their G846 understanding G3563 comprehend G4920 (G5721) Scriptures G1124...
‘Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the Scriptures.' This may indicate that, as with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus (see Luke 24:31) He expounded the Scriptures to them, gi...
THE NEW MESSAGE AND THE NEW POWER (24:44-51) In Mark 1:15 the Gospel is summarised as, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the Kingly Rule of God is at hand, repent and believe in the Good News.' In other wor...
THE NEW MESSAGE AND THE NEW POWER; A FINAL SUMMARY PREPARING FOR ACTS (24:44-53). Having presented what he sees as the ultimate revelation of the earthly Jesus in describing the appearance of Jesus to...
Luke 24:45. THEN OPENED HE THEIR UNDERSTANDING, etc. Not only must the Scriptures be opened for the understanding, but the understanding for the Scriptures. This was doubtless the work of repeated int...
OUR LORD'S RESURRECTION BODY. The Gospel statements indicate-that at this time our Lord had a real body, identical with His pre-resurrection body and with His glorified body, and yet differing from bo...
OPENED HE THEIR MIND (διηνοιξεν αυτων τον νουν). The same verb as that in verses Luke 24:31; Luke 24:32 about the eyes and the Scriptures. Jesus had all these years been trying to open their minds t...
Luke 24:13. _And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened...
Luke 24:1. Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the st...
Luke 24:1. Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the st...
CONTENTS: Resurrection of Christ. Ministry of the risen Christ. His commission to evangelization. The ascension. CHARACTERS: Jesus, angels, Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary mother of James, Peter, discip...
Luke 24:21. _To-day is the third day._ Christ was to rise the third day, according to the scriptures, as he had intimated to the disciples. Matthew 20:19. See also Genesis 22:4;...
THEN HE SAID TO THEM. Luke passes over an interval of weeks, between Luke 24:43-44. Christ was seen a number of times after his resurrection (see notes on Matthew 28:9). THEN HE OPENED THEIR MINDS. To...
_Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them_ THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE RISEN LORD TO THE ELEVEN I. THE CERTAINTY OF OUR LORD’S RESURRECTION. No fact in history is better attested. 1. Observe, that w...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 24:1 The Resurrection of Jesus. Luke’s Gospel began in the temple (Luke 1:5). After Jesus has risen from the dead, it will conclude in the temple as well ...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 24:45 HE OPENED THEIR MINDS TO UNDERSTAND. True understanding of the Scriptures is a gift of God (see Luke 9:45;...
CHAPTER 24 VER. 1. _Now upon the first day of the week._ The first day after the Sabbath, the Lord's day, _i.e._ the day on which Christ rose from the dead. See S. Matthew 28:1....
_Then opened He their understanding that they might understand the scriptures._ He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself, as He had done before at Emmaus. See ver. 27...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 24:44. THESE ARE THE WORDS.—_I.e._, “this is the meaning of the words.” Probably in Luke 24:44 St. Luke gives a summary of Christ’s discourses during the time between the Resurre...
EXPOSITION LUKE 24:1 THE RESURRECTION. All the four evangelists give an account of the Resurrection. None of the four, however, attempt to give a _history _of_ _it simply from a human point of sight...
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled aw...
2 Corinthians 3:14; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Acts 16:14; Acts 26:18;...
Understanding [ν ο υ ν]. Which had been closed. See on fools, ver. 25....
CHRIST'S MISSIONARY COMMAND AS SEEN IN THE EARLY CHURCH Matthew 28:18; _Mark 16:15; Luke 24:45_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS As the time came for the Lord to leave, and to return to His Father, He pressed upo...
Then opened he their understanding, to understand the Scriptures — He had explained them before to the two as they went to Emmaus. But still they Understood them not, till he took off the veil from th...