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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Luke 11

Luke 11:1

LUKE CHAPTER 11 LUKE 11:1 Christ teacheth to pray, assuring that God will give all good things to them that ask him. LUKE 11:14 He casteth out a devil, and reproveth the blasphemy of the Pharisees, who ascribed the miracle to the power of Beelzebub. LUKE 11:27,28 He showeth who are the truly blessed... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:2

OLBGrk; Ver. 2-4. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 6:9". Whoso compares this prayer as it is recorded by Matthew will find the form of words differing in more things than one; not only the doxology or conclusion is left out wholly by Luke, but for shmeron, there we have cay hmeran, here, for ofeilhmata Luke h... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:5

OLBGrk; Ver. 5-9. The plain meaning of our Saviour in this parable, is to teach us that we ought not only to pray, but to be importunate with God in prayer; to _continue in prayer, _ as the apostle phrases it, COLOSSIANS 4:2, and to watch _thereunto with all perseverance, _ EPHESIANS 6:18. This in... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:10

Ver. 10-13. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 7:8" and following verses to MATTHEW 7:11. As our Saviour's design in the former words appeareth to be our information, that thought the hand of God be full of good things proportioned to all the necessities of his creatures, yet they must not expect to have them wi... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:15

Ver. 15-23. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 9:34". SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 12:24", and following verses to MATTHEW 12:30. SEE POOLE ON "MARK 3:22", and following verses to MARK 3:27.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:23

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 bound to give honour to whom honour belongs; but pride and ambition are detestable sins, especially in... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:24

Ver. 24-26. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 12:43", SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 12:44" and SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 12:45". From these verses we may observe, 1. That the devil may in some sort and degree be cast out of persons and places, while yet in other respects they may be his house, and he may dwell in and among... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:27

Ver. 27,28. We are very prone to bless persons from external privileges, and the favours of Divine Providence, which do not at all change or affect the hearts of those to whom they are given; but God looketh with another eye upon persons. Christ doth not here deny his mother to have been blessed; he... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:29

Ver. 29-32. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 12:38", and following verses to MATTHEW 12:42. Matthew saith, they were the Pharisees that came to him, desiring to see a sign from heaven: they did the same again, MATTHEW 16:1. Christ was very ready to work miracles to encourage and confirm his hearers faith, but... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:33

We met with this similitude LUKE 8:16 MATTHEW 5:15: SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 8:16", SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 5:15". It was a kind of proverbial speech, and so applicable to divers subjects. Some think that our Saviour bringeth in these words as a reason why he would show the Pharisees no sign, viz. because h... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:34

Ver. 34-36. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 6:22", SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 6:23". Our Saviour's speech in these verses is plainly both elliptical (something being in itself to be understood) and also metaphorical. The sense is this, What the eye is to the body, that the soul, the mind and affections, are to the... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:37

This is the second time we meet with our Saviour at a Pharisee's house. He saith of himself, that he _came eating and drinking_, that is, allowing himself a free, though innocent, converse with all sorts of people, that he might gain some. The Pharisees were, as to the generality of them, the most b... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:38

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 Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders._ Concerning t... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:39

Ver. 39,40. We have much the same, though delivered in another form, with a denunciation of a woe, SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:25". We must not imagine that our Saviour here reflects upon the cleansing of vessels in which we put our meat and drink, for undoubtedly, as to them, the Pharisees washed both... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:41

OLBGrk; plhn ta enonta dote elehmosunhn. The word enonta being a word not ordinarily used in a sense which will fit this place, hath made a great abounding in their own senses amongst interpreters; some translating it, Give such things as are within for alms; others, such things as you have; others,... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:42

SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:23". There are two great notes of hypocrites: 1. To be more exact, in and zealous for the observation of rituals and the traditions of men, than in and for the observation of the moral law of God. 2. In matters of morality, to be more exact and strict in and for little thi... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:43

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 bound to give honour to whom honour belongs; but pride and ambition are detestable sins, especially in... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:44

SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:27", where our Saviour compares the Pharisees to whited sepulchres: here he compares them to sepulchres, but not as there to denote their hypocrisy, appearing white, but having nothing within but rottenness; but upon the account of the contagion of them, and their pollution... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:45

This lawyer was a scribe of the law, LUKE 11:44. The work of these men was to interpret the law; the Pharisees strictly observed their decrees and interpretations. The lawyer therefore spake rightly in thinking our Saviour's words had some reflection upon men of his order, but he woefully erred both... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:47

Ver. 47-51. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:29" and following verses to MATTHEW 23:36. The Pharisees, like a company of wretched hypocrites, under a pretence of their honouring the memories of the prophets under the Old Testament, took great care to repair and to adorn their sepulchres, while in the mean t... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:52

Matthew saith, MATTHEW 23:13, _for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men, &c._ I take the sense of these words to be, You have taken away knowledge, which is the key by which men enter into the kingdom of God. Though knowledge itself be but a common gift, and men may have great measures of it... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 11:53

Ver. 53,54. Herein the vile genius of these wretched men was seen, Christ was become their enemy because he told them the truth; his reproofs in order to their reformation and amendment do but fill them with madness against him. Nor are wicked and malicious men at any time fair enemies. THEY URGE HI... [ Continue Reading ]

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