Luke 7:1-5
THE CENTURION OF CAPERNAUM. The prayer of the centurion:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CENTURION OF CAPERNAUM. The prayer of the centurion:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN HE HAD ENDED ALL HIS SAYINGS IN THE AUDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE, HE ENTERED INTO CAPERNAUM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND A CERTAIN CENTURION'S SERVANT, WHO WAS DEAR UNTO HIM, WAS SICK, AND READY TO DIE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HEARD OF JESUS, HE SENT UNTO HIM THE ELDERS OF THE JEWS, BESEECHING HIM THAT HE WOULD COME AND HEAL HIS SERVANT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY CAME TO JESUS, THEY BESOUGHT HIM INSTANTLY, SAYING, THAT HE WAS WORTHY FOR WHOM HE SHOULD DO THIS;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE LOVETH OUR NATION, AND HE HATH BUILT US A SYNAGOGUE. Jesus brought His long discourse to a close. It was addressed to the hearing of the people; they were not merely to listen inattentively and forget all the precepts within a few minutes, but their hearing, their understanding, was to take h... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN JESUS WENT WITH THEM. AND WHEN HE WAS NOW NOT FAR FROM THE HOUSE, THE CENTURION SENT FRIENDS TO HIM, SAYING UNTO HIM, LORD, TROUBLE NOT THYSELF; FOR I AM NOT WORTHY THAT THOU SHOULDEST ENTER UNDER MY ROOF;... [ Continue Reading ]
The faith of the centurion:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE NEITHER THOUGHT I MYSELF WORTHY TO COME UNTO THEE; BUT SAY IN A WORD, AND MY SERVANT SHALL BE HEALED.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I ALSO AM A MAN SET UNDER AUTHORITY, HAVING UNDER ME SOLDIERS, AND I SAY UNTO ONE, GO, AND HE GOETH; AND TO ANOTHER, COME, AND HE COMETH; AND TO MY SERVANT, DO THIS, AND HE DOETH IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN JESUS HEARD THESE THINGS, HE MARVELED AT HIM, AND TURNED HIM ABOUT, AND SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE THAT FOLLOWED HIM, I SAY UNTO YOU, I HAVE NOT FOUND SO GREAT FAITH, NO, NOT IN ISRAEL.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY THAT WERE SENT, RETURNING TO THE HOUSE, FOUND THE SERVANT WHOLE THAT HAD BEEN SICK. Strange disagreement! The Jewish elders declare that he is worthy, the centurion says that he is not worthy. They had intimated in their petition that it would be best for Jesus to come, and He, accordingly,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS THE DAY AFTER THAT HE WENT INTO A CITY CALLED NAIN; AND MANY OF HIS DISCIPLES WENT WITH HIM AND MUCH PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
RAISING OF THE WIDOW'S SON. The miracle:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, WHEN HE CAME NIGH TO THE GATE OF THE CITY, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A DEAD MAN CARRIED OUT, THE ONLY SON OF HIS MOTHER, AND SHE WAS A WIDOW; AND MUCH PEOPLE OF THE CITY WAS WITH HER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE LORD SAW HER, HE HAD COMPASSION ON HER, AND SAID UNTO HER, WEEP NOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CAME AND TOUCHED THE BIER; AND THEY THAT BARE HIM STOOD STILL. AND HE SAID, YOUNG MAN, I SAY UNTO THEE, ARISE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE THAT WAS DEAD SAT UP, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK. AND HE DELIVERED HIM TO HIS MOTHER. Jesus did not remain in Capernaum after he had healed the centurion's servant, for the very next day we find Him approaching the little town of Nain, which was located at about an equal distance from Nazareth and Mo... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE CAME A FEAR ON ALL; AND THEY GLORIFIED GOD, SAYING, THAT A GREAT PROPHET IS RISEN UP AMONG US; AND, THAT GOD HATH VISITED HIS PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THIS RUMOR OF HIM WENT FORTH THROUGHOUT ALL JUDEA AND THROUGHOUT ALL THE REGION ROUND ABOUT. At this manifestation of almighty power which they had seen with their eyes, a fear and dread of the supernatural fell upon, took hold of, all the people. They felt the presence of God in this Man of Na... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN SHOWED HIM ALL THESE THINGS.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE EMBASSY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. Luke 7:18 The question of the Baptist:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JOHN, CALLING UNTO HIM TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES, SENT THEM TO JESUS, SAYING, ART THOU HE THAT SHOULD COME, OR LOOK WE FOR ANOTHER?... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THE MEN WERE COME UNTO HIM, THEY SAID, JOHN BAPTIST HATH SENT US UNTO THEE, SAYING, ART THOU HE THAT SHOULD COME, OR LOOK WE FOR ANOTHER? After John the Baptist had been sure of the identity of Christ, John 1:29, he had made an earnest effort to get his disciples to follow Jesus. A few left and... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THAT SAME HOUR HE CURED MANY OF THEIR INFIRMITIES AND PLAGUES AND OF EVIL SPIRITS, AND UNTO MANY THAT WERE BLIND HE GAVE SIGHT.... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ's reference to the prophecy:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN JESUS, ANSWERING, SAID UNTO THEM, GO YOUR WAY, AND TELL JOHN WHAT THINGS YE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD; HOW THAT THE BLIND SEE, THE LAME WALK, THE LEPERS ARE CLEANSED, THE DEAF HEAR, THE DEAD ARE RAISED, TO THE POOR THE GOSPEL IS PREACHED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BLESSED IS HE WHOSOEVER SHALL NOT BE OFFENDED IN ME. The time of their coming to Jesus could not have been arranged more auspiciously. For just then Jesus was busily engaged with performing miracles of all kinds: He cured many of sicknesses, of plagues which were scourges upon their backs; He he... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE MESSENGERS OF JOHN WERE DEPARTED, HE BEGAN TO SPEAK UNTO THE PEOPLE CONCERNING JOHN, WHAT WENT YE OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS FOR TO SEE? A REED SHAKEN WITH THE WIND?... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ's testimony concerning John:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHAT WENT YE OUT FOR TO SEE? A MAN CLOTHED IN SOFT RAIMENT? BEHOLD, THEY WHICH ARE GORGEOUSLY APPARELED, AND LIVE DELICATELY, ARE IN KINGS' COURTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHAT WENT YE OUT FOR TO SEE? A PROPHET? YEA, I SAY UNTO YOU, AND MUCH MORE THAN A PROPHET.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS HE OF WHOM IT IS WRITTEN, BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER BEFORE THY FACE WHICH SHALL PREPARE THY WAY BEFORE THEE. See Matthew 11:7. The Lord took this opportunity to bear witness to John and his ministry. The happenings of that time were so recent that they were still fresh in the memory. He pu... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I SAY UNTO YOU, AMONG THOSE THAT ARE BORN OF WOMEN THERE IS NOT A GREATER PROPHET THAN JOHN THE BAPTIST; BUT HE THAT IS LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS GREATER THAN HE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Further praise of John:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HEARD HIM, AND THE PUBLICANS, JUSTIFIED GOD, BEING BAPTIZED WITH THE BAPTISM OF JOHN.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE PHARISEES AND LAWYERS REJECTED THE COUNSEL OF GOD AGAINST THEMSELVES, BEING NOT BAPTIZED OF HIM. High praise indeed: All the prophets of old merely prophesied of the Messiah as one coming in the future, John pointed to the present Christ, testified of Him directly. And yet, by a strange para... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SAID, WHEREUNTO, THEN, SHALL I LIKEN THE MEN OF THIS GENERATION? AND TO WHAT ARE THEY LIKE?... [ Continue Reading ]
Parable of the children in the marketplace:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY ARE LIKE UNTO CHILDREN SITTING IN THE MARKETPLACE, AND CALLING ONE TO ANOTHER, AND SAYING, WE HAVE PIPED UNTO YOU, AND YE HAVE NOT DANCED; WE HAVE MOURNED TO YOU, AND YE HAVE NOT WEPT.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME, NEITHER EATING BREAD NOR DRINKING WINE; AND YE SAY, HE HATH A DEVIL.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SON OF MAN IS COME EATING AND DRINKING; AND YE SAY, BEHOLD A GLUTTONOUS MAN, AND A WINEBIBBER, A FRIEND OF PUBLICANS AND SINNERS!... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WISDOM IS JUSTIFIED OF ALL HER CHILDREN. The Lord here scores the inconsistency of the Jewish people as a whole, and especially of their leaders, by comparing their actions to those of capricious, peevish children, whom no game will suit that their playmates propose. If these play on the flute,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ONE OF THE PHARISEES DESIRED HIM THAT HE WOULD EAT WITH HIM. AND HE WENT INTO THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE, AND SAT DOWN TO MEAT.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIRST ANOINTING OF JESUS. The anointing:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, "BEHOLD, A WOMAN IN THE CITY WHICH WAS A SINNER, WHEN SHE KNEW THAT JESUS SAT AT MEAT IN THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE, BROUGHT AN ALABASTER BOX OF OINTMENT,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND STOOD AT HIS FEET BEHIND HIM WEEPING, AND BEGAN TO WASH HIS FEET WITH TEARS, AND DID WIPE THEM WITH THE HAIRS OF HER HEAD, AND KISSED HIS FEET, AND ANOINTED THEM WITH THE OINTMENT. Jesus was the friend of publicans and sinners, hut not in the derogatory sense in which His enemies used the word.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN THE PHARISEE WHICH HAD BIDDEN HIM SAW IT, HE SPAKE WITHIN HIMSELF, SAYING, THIS MAN, IF HE WERE A PROPHET, WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHO AND WHAT MANNER OF WOMAN THIS IS THAT TOUCHETH HIM; FOR SHE IS A SINNER.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Pharisee's condemnation:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, ANSWERING, SAID UNTO HIM, SIMON, I HAVE SOMEWHAT TO SAY UNTO THEE. AND HE SAITH, MASTER, SAY ON. The host had watched the entire proceeding with ill-concealed disgust. The very thought of Jesus' being touched by such a notorious character made him shudder. And therefore he passed the 'ver... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WAS A CERTAIN CREDITOR WHICH HAD TWO DEBTORS; THE ONE OWED FIVE HUNDRED PENCE AND THE OTHER FIFTY.... [ Continue Reading ]
The parable and its application:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD NOTHING TO PAY, HE FRANKLY FORGAVE THEM BOTH. TELL ME THEREFORE, WHICH OF THEM WILL LOVE HIM MOST?... [ Continue Reading ]
SIMON ANSWERED AND SAID, I SUPPOSE THAT HE TO WHOM HE FORGAVE MOST. AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, THOU HAST RIGHTLY JUDGED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TURNED TO THE WOMAN AND SAID UNTO SIMON, SEEST THOU THIS WOMAN? I ENTERED INTO THINE HOUSE; THOU GAVEST ME NO WATER FOR MY FEET, BUT SHE HATH WASHED MY FEET WITH TEARS, AND WIPED THEM WITH THE HAIRS OF HER HEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU GAVEST ME NO KISS; BUT THIS WOMAN, SINCE THE TIME I CAME IN, HATH NOT CEASED TO KISS MY FEET.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY HEAD WITH OIL THOU DIDST NOT ANOINT; BUT THIS WOMAN HATH ANOINTED MY FEET WITH OINTMENT. Two debtors were to one creditor; a fine bit of emphasis for the sake of the application of the parable: Simon and the woman, both debtors to the Lord. In the one case the debt was very large, five hundred de... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE I SAY UNTO THEE, HER SINS, WHICH ARE MANY, ARE FORGIVEN; FOR SHE LOVED MUCH; BUT TO WHOM LITTLE IS FORGIVEN, THE SAME LOVETH LITTLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The lesson:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO HER, THY SINS ARE FORGIVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY THAT SAT AT MEAT WITH HIM BEGAN TO SAY WITHIN THEMSELVES, WHO IS THIS THAT FORGIVETH SINS ALSO?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID TO THE WOMAN, THY FAITH HATH SAVED THEE; GO IN PEACE. On the basis of the parable and the facts as stated by Christ, He tells Simon: Forgiven are her many sins, for she loved much. The fact that her many grievous trespasses had found forgiveness in the sight of Christ and God filled her... [ Continue Reading ]