Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Luke 11:33-36
THE INWARD LIGHT
THE INWARD LIGHT
LUKE 11:33 @ouvde. u`po. to.n mo,dion# {C} Since Luke preferred not to use mo,dion in Luke 8:16, a word that is present in the parallel in Mark (and Matthew), it may well be that the word, with its c...
Verse 33. _NO MAN, WHEN HE HATH LIGHTED_, c.] Matthew 5:15, Matthew 5:15. Our Lord intimates, that if he worked a miracle among such an obstinate people, who were determined to disbelieve every evide...
These verses are found in Matthew, but in a different connection. See the notes at Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22....
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Prayer Given to the Disciples (Luke 11:1 .)_ 2. The Friend at Midnight. (Luke 11:5) 3. Encouragement to Pray. (Luke 11:11) 4. A Demon Cast Out and the Blasphemous Accusation. ...
SAYINGS ABOUT LIGHT. With Luke 11:33; cf. Luke 8:16 (= Mark 4:21; Matthew 5:15). With L
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a bushel, but upon a lamp-stand, so that those who come in may see the light. The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is sound your whole...
NO MAN, &c. Repeated here from Matthew 5:15. Greek. _oudeis. no_ one, compound of _ou_. App-105. CANDLE. lamp. See App-130. SECRET PLACE. cellar, or vault. All the texts read _krupte_ (crypt). UND...
33-36. The Inward Light. 33. _in a secret place_ Rather, IN A CRYPT OR CELLAR. _under a bushel_ Rather, -under THE bushel"; i.e. the one in use in the house; and similarly -the candlestick," or rath...
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...
Ver 33. No man, when he has lighted a candle, puts it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. 34. The light of the body is the eye:...
_THE PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY BLESSED -- LUKE 11:27-36:_ People talked to Jesus about who was really blessed. Jesus got right to the point and said, "Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep...
ΛΎΧΝΟΣ (G3088) светильник, масляная лампа (_см._ Matthew 5:15). ΆΨΑΣ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΆΠΤΩ (G681) зажигать, ΚΡΎΠΤΗ темное и укромное место, погреб, ΤΊΘΗΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΤΊΘ...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Phenomenalism (Luke 11:29-36) 29 When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign shall be given to i...
And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered. See the notes at Matthew 12:22. Verse 14-20 For the expo...
27 This is a delicate yet decisive thrust at the slightest tendency toward Mariolatry. Mary was indeed most blessed to be chosen to bear such a Son, but it was a physical relationship, such as He sust...
11:33 corn-measure, (e-15) Translated 'bushel' in Matthew 5:15 ; Mark 4:21 ....
THE LORD'S PRAYER. THE SIGN OF JONAH 1-4. The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9). See on Mt. If the Lord's Prayer was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion. His version, however (as...
A favourite saying of Christ's occurring in various connexions (Luke 8:16; Matthew 5:15; Mark 4:21). Here it means that Christ by His public preaching and miracles has made Himself so conspicuous and...
INWARD LIGHT AND DARKNESS. Christ is still rebuking those who refused to believe in Him without a special sign from heaven. In St. Matthew these vv. form part of the Sermon on the Mount....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT PRAYER 11:1-13 1 THE PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT 11:1-4 V1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of...
NO MAN, WHEN HE HATH LIGHTED A CANDLE,... — See Note on Matthew 5:15. Here also it seems, on the whole, more probable that we have a portion of our Lord’s previous teaching repeated by Him in almost i...
Luke 11:33-36 contain parabolic utterances concerning the placing of a light, and the conditions under which the eye sees the light....
repeats Luke 8:16 in slightly varied language, and Luke 11:34-36 reproduce what Mt. gives in his version of the Sermon on the Mount (Luke 6:22-23). The connection with what goes before is not apparent...
DARK AND FOUL WITHIN Luke 11:33-44 “The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,” Proverbs 20:27. How many unlit candles there are! Will you not ask whether Christ has ever kindled you with His divi...
Watching the Master at prayer, His disciples were inspired with a desire to pray, and requested that they be taught. He responded to them in a fourfold statement. First, He gave them a model. Then He...
(9) No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth [it] in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. (9) Our minds are therefore lighten...
CHAPTER 24 THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES SEEK A SIGN FROM HEAVEN Matthew 12:38-45; Luke 11:16-36. “Then certain ones of the scribes and Pharisees responded, saying, Master, we wish to see a sign from The...
4 _th. Luke 11:29-36_. _The Second Discourse._ This is the answer of Jesus to the demand which was addressed to Him to work a miracle proceeding from heaven (Luke 11:16). Strauss does not think that J...
7. _The Blasphemy of the Pharisees: Luke 11:14-36_. We have already observed (see on Luke 6:11) how remarkably coincident in time are the accusations called forth in Galilee by the healings on the Sab...
(29) And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. (30) For a...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
The prayer which He taught His disciples (chapter 11) has respect also to the position into which they came before the gift of the Holy Ghost. [32] Jesus Himself prayed, as the dependent man on earth....
NO MAN WHEN HE HATH LIGHTED A CANDLE,.... These words are often repeated by Christ on different occasions, Matthew 5:15 and Luke 8:16 and here seem to design the free, open, and clear ministry of Ch...
No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth _it_ in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. Ver. 33. _No man, when he hath lighted,...
_No man, when he hath lighted a candle_ The meaning is, God gives you this gospel-light, that ye may repent. Let your eye be singly fixed on him, aim only at pleasing God; and while ye do this, your w...
Candle under a bushel. Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22-23....
NO MAN, WHEN HE HATH LIGHTED A CANDLE, PUTTETH IT IN A SECRET PLACE, NEITHER UNDER A BUSHEL, BUT ON A CANDLESTICK, THAT THEY WHICH COME IN MAY SEE THE LIGHT....
Parabolic warnings:...
VALUABLE INSTRUCTION AS TO PRAYER (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended in Mary). His...
BUSHELL: See Matthew 5:15...
29-36 Christ promised that there should be one sign more given, even the sign of Jonah the prophet; which in Matthew is explained, as meaning the resurrection of Christ; and he warned them to improve...
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 s
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV For a vast age he hides his own light from men, and yet says that a candle must not be hidden, but affirms that it ought to be set upon a candlestick, that it may g...
Luke 11:33 G1161 one G3762 lit G681 (G5660) lamp G3088 puts G5087 (G5719) in G1519 place...
“No man, when he has lighted a lamp, puts it in a hiding place, nor under the corn measure, but on the stand, so that those who enter in may see the light.” The first principle that has to be establis...
Luke 11:33-36. The thoughts of these verses occur in Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22-23. Here the connection is different. They wished a sign; a greater sign than Jonah is granted them, but to perceive it...
CHRONOLOGY. The miracle and discourses here recorded are probably identical with those narrated in Matthew 12:22-45; Mark 3:23-30. Some have supposed that Luke gives the exact position, and not the ot...
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...
IN A CELLAR (εις κρυπτην). A crypt (same word) or hidden place from κρυπτω, to hide. Late and rare word and here only in the N.T. These other words (lamp, λυχνον, bushel, μοδιον, stand, λυχνιαν) hav...
Luke 11:14. _And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils thr...
CONTENTS: Jesus' doctrine of prayer. Jesus charged with casting out demons by Beelzebub, and His answer. Woes denounced upon the Pharisees and lawyers. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Jonah, Sol...
Luke 11:1. _Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples._ The disciples of John were eminent for fasting and prayer; and though the prayers of the jews were good, yet they were not exact...
AND THEN HIDES IT. See notes on Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22-23. IF, THEN, YOUR WHOLE BODY IS FULL OF LIGHT. Symbolic of the Christian's influence. See Matthew 5:16. Also symbolic of eternal glory ...
_The light of the body is the eye_ THE SINGLE EYE The eye is evil when the vision is incorrect, double; is single when it lays hold of one object with clearness and firmness. Shut the eye, or if th...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:33 LAMP. Probably a metaphor for Jesus and his mission. ⇐ ⇔
Jesus teaches about being the light of the world Matthew 5:14-16; Mark 4:21-22; Luke 8:16-18; Luke 11:33-36;...
CHAPTER 11 VER. 2. _When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name_. S. Matthew adds this prayer to the sermon on the mount, whilst S. Luke places it at a later period. Either...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 11:14. CASTING OUT A DEVIL.—There seems to be little doubt that this miracle is the same as that in Matthew 12:22, as wrought apparently in Galilee. In St. Matthew’s Gospel there...
EXPOSITION LUKE 11:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the_ _subject of prayer. _Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of _time _or _place _enables us to fix the scene or date with any...
Tonight, chapter 11 in the gospel according to Luke. Again, as Luke is pointing out the human side of Jesus, though He was God, He became man. He is the God-man. He is divine, and yet, He is human. Th...
John 11:9; John 12:46; Luke 8:16; Luke 8:17; Mark 4:21;...
Candle. Properly, lamp. Secret place [κ ρ υ π τ η ν]. Rather, a cellar or crypt. which latter is the Greek word transcribed. The bushel. See on Matthew 5:15. Candlestick. Properly stand. See on Mat...
The meaning is, God gives you this Gospel light, that you may repent. Let your eye be singly fixed on him, aim only at pleasing God; and while you do this, your whole soul will be full of wisdom, holi...
Our Saviour in these words does these two things: 1. He declares, that although his ministry had no effect upon the proud and obstinate Pharisees, yet he would not hide the light which he came into th...