Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 14:3
And Jesus answering, spake — Answering the thoughts which he saw rising in their hearts.
And Jesus answering, spake — Answering the thoughts which he saw rising in their hearts.
JESUS, ANSWERING - To “answer,” in the Scriptures, does not always imply, as among us, that anything had been said before. It means often merely to “begin” or to take up a subject, or, as here, to rem...
CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The Man with the Dropsy Healed on the Sabbath. (Luke 14:1)_ 2. The Wisdom of Humility. (Luke 14:7) 3. Recompensed in Resurrection. (Luke 14:12) 4. The Parable of the Great Supper. ...
A SABBATH WITH A PHARISEE. A companion picture to Luke 13:10. When in Luke 6:6 Lk. relates the cure of the man with a withered hand (Mark 3:1; Matthew 12:9) he
UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF HOSTILE MEN (Luke 14:1-6)...
On the Sabbath day Jesus had gone into the house of one of the rulers who belonged to the Pharisees to eat bread; and they were watching him. And--look you-- there was a man before him who had dropsy....
JESUS. App-98. UNTO. Greek. _pros._ App-104. LAWYERS. doctors of the law....
_answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees_ See on Luke 5:22. He took the initiative, and answered their unspoken thoughts. _Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?_ We have already seen (Luke 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...
SABBATH HEALING OF A MAN WITH THE DROPSY...
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...
ΕἸ before ἔξεστιν, which is found in Matthew 12:10, is here omitted by אBDL. 3. ἈΠΟΚΡΙΘΕῚΣ … ΕἾΠΕΝ ΠΡῸΣ ΤΟῪΣ ΝΟΜΙΚΟῪΣ ΚΑῚ ΦΑΡΙΣΑΊΟΥΣ. See on Luke 5:22. He took the initiative, and answered their unsp...
Ver 1. And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. 2. And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had...
_HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH -- LUKE 14:1-6:_ Jesus accepted an invitation from a leader of the Pharisees to have a meal at his house. The meal was on the Sabbath day. Jesus came under careful scr...
ΑΠΟΚΡΙΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. (dep.) part. от_ ΑΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать (_см._ Luke 13:2). ΈΞΕΣΤΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΞΕΣΤΙ(ν) (G1832) законно, позволено, с _inf._ ΘΕΡΑΠΕΫ́ΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ Θ...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Good (Luke 14:1-6) 14One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him.2 And behold, there was a man before h...
And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? AND JESUS ANSWERING SPAKE UNTO THE LAWYERS AND PHARISEES, SAYING, IS IT LAWFUL TO HEAL ON...
25 Compare Mat_25:10-12. 27 Compare 2Ti_2:19. 29 Eastern etiquette is most stringent as to the placing of guests at a banquet. The most honorable must have the first place and the least the last. So...
THE DROPSICAL MAN. THE GREAT SUPPER. DIVERS SAYINGS AND PARABLES 1-6. The sabbath question again. The man with the dropsy healed (peculiar to Lk)....
IS IT LAWFUL TO HEAL?] See on Matthew 12:10....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 JESUS *HEALS A MAN ON THE *SABBATH 14:1-6 V1 One *Sabbath, Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the more important *Pharisees. They were watch...
UNTO THE LAWYERS. — See Note on Matthew 22:35. The teaching of our Lord is identical in substance, and nearly so in form, with that in Luke 6:6; Matthew 12:9; Ma
ἀποκριθεὶς : Jesus addresses Himself to the double situation; on the one hand a sick man dumbly appealing for help, on the other jealous religionists aware of His free habit and expecting eccentric sp...
ὑδρωπικὸς (ὕδρωψ): here only in N.T., a solitary instance of this disease among the healing acts of Jesus. No conceivable reason for its being mentioned except that it was a fact. ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ, bef...
Luke 14:1-24 contain a digest of sayings of Jesus at the table of a Pharisee, this being the third instance in this Gospel of such friendly intercourse between Him and members of the Pharisaic party....
_The dropsical man healed, with relative conversation_, in Lk. only (_cf._ Matthew 12:9-14)....
THE LAMENT FOR THOSE WHO “WOULD NOT” Luke 13:31-35; Luke 14:1-6 Our Lord was at that time in Perea, in the jurisdiction of Herod, who probably desired to get rid of Him, lest His presence should intr...
Nothing escaped the notice of Jesus. He saw the guests in the house, and their method of procedure in seeking the chief seats. As He watched, He enunciated two great truths of social application. Firs...
_Is it lawful? Jesus knew their thoughts, and that they would blame him as a sabbath-breaker: yet he healed the man, and confounded them by the example and common practice of pulling an ass out of a p...
CHAPTER 11 THE DROPSICAL MAN HEALED Luke 14:1-6. “ _And it came to pass that He entered into the house of a certain one of the rulers of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread_, _and they were wat...
HEALING OF PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW Matthew 8:14-17; Mark 1:2-34; & Luke 14:3-35 Mark: “And immediately coming out of the synagogue? came into the house of Simon and Andrew and James and John. The mother...
1 _st. Luke 14:1-6_. To accept an invitation to the house of a Pharisee, after the previous scenes, was to do an act at once of courage and kindness. The host was one of the _chief_ of his sect. There...
3. _Jesus at a Feast: Luke 14:1-24_. The following piece allows us to follow Jesus in His domestic life and familiar conversations. It is connected with the preceding by the fact that it is with a Pha...
And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the drops...
_THE SPIRIT OF SUNDAY OBSERVANCE_ ‘Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?’ Luke 14:3 It was at Capernaum that the controversy with our Lord about the Sabbath took place. What do we learn from our...
3._Is it lawful to cure on Sabbath? _The meaning of this question is, ought the _curing _of a man to be reckoned among the works which violate the Sabbath? If they had said that the observance of the...
Some moral details are unfolded in the next chapter (14). [37] The Lord, being invited to eat with a Pharisee, vindicates the rights of grace over that which was the seal of the old covenant, judging...
AND JESUS ANSWERING, SPAKE UNTO THE LAWYERS AND PHARISEES,.... All the Oriental versions, for "lawyers", read "Scribes": these, with the Pharisees, were got together in a body, in their brother Pharis...
And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? Ver. 3. _And Jesus answering_] viz. Their thoughts, which were naked and open; naked (for th...
_And it came to pass_ About this time, probably just as our Lord was finishing his journey through Herod's dominions; _he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees_ Τινος των αρχοντων Φαρισαιω...
ANSWERING; he replied to their thoughts by the question which he put to them....
CHRIST THE GUEST OF A PHARISEE. Luke 14:1 Healing a man afflicted with dropsy on the Sabbath:...
AND JESUS, ANSWERING, SPAKE UNTO THE LAWYERS AND PHARISEES, SAYING, IS IT LAWFUL TO HEAL ON THE SABBATH-DAY?...
EATING IN THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE (vs.1-14) This chapter shows the heart of God in seeking man, yet also man in thorough contrast and opposition to God. One of the chief Pharisees invited the Lord Jesu...
1-6 This Pharisee, as well as others, seems to have had an ill design in entertaining Jesus at his house. But our Lord would not be hindered from healing a man, though he knew a clamour would be raise...
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Luke 14:3 And G2532 Jesus G2424 answering G611 (G5679) spoke G2036 (G5627) to G4314 lawyers G3544 and...
‘And Jesus answering spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not?” Jesus ‘answers' the lawyers and Pharisees. This may indicate His response to the man's m...
A SABBATH MEAL AT A PHARISEE'S HOUSE; THE HEALING OF A MAN WITH DROPSY (14:1-6). It is unusual in Luke for us to be given the full details of the setting, yet in this passage Jesus is invited into the...
Luke 14:3. ANSWERING, _i.e._, the thoughts of the Pharisees. IS IT LAWFUL, etc.? This unexpected question evidently embarrassed them. If they answered yes, the occasion of finding fault was taken aw...
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...
This section, peculiar to Luke, has been aptly styled ‘the Son of man eating and drinking.' All the incidents occurred at a feast Luke 14:1; Luke 14:7). The parable of the Great Supper Luke 14:16-24)...
ANSWERING (αποκριθεις). First aorist passive participle without the passive meaning. Jesus answered the thoughts of those mentioned in verse Luke 14:1. Here "lawyers and Pharisees" are treated as o...
14:1-6. And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had t...
CONTENTS: Jesus heals on the Sabbath. Parable of the ambitious guest. Parable of the great supper. Parable of the tower, of the king going to war, and of the savorless salt. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharis...
Luke 14:3. _Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day._ When customs are good, let us keep them; but when they are burthensome and inconsistent, the Saviour refused submission to the traditions of men....
A MAN WHOSE LEGS AND ARMS WERE SWOLLEN. Jesus knows they are watching to see if he will heal this man on the Sabbath. DOES OUR LAW ALLOW? The Law of Moses did allow it, but their Tradition said it was...
_He went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees_ THE GOSPEL FOR THE SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY I. WE HERE BEHOLD OUR SAVIOUR IN THE SOCIAL CIRCLE. Jesus was not a recluse. He had a kind...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 14:3 IS IT LAWFUL TO HEAL ON THE SABBATH, OR NOT? Compare Luke 6:9; Luke 13:16. See note
_And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees._ Answering their thoughts and not their inquiry, for they had asked no question, but thought in their hearts that Christ would be acting unla...
CHAPTER 14 VER. 1. _And it came to pass that He went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees_. "To do them service," says Titus, "Christ makes Himself their friend, and, as it were, one of their...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 14:1. ONE OF THE CHIEF PHARISEES.—Rather, “one of the rulers of the Pharisees” (R.V.). The phrase is a peculiar one, since the Pharisees, as such, had no rulers; it may refer to...
EXPOSITION LUKE 14:1 _The Pharisee_'_s feast on a sabbath day. The healing of the sick with dropsy._ LUKE 14:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF ONE OF THE CHIEF PHARISEES TO EAT B...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the gospel according to Luke, chapter 14. The fourteenth chapter involves an invitation for Jesus to come to a supper on the Sabbath day and of the things that trans...
John 7:23; Luke 11:44; Luke 11:45; Luke 13:14; Luke 6:9;...