Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Luke 12:1-12
Luke 12:1-12. THE DUTY OF BOLD SINCERITY AND TRUST IN GOD
Luke 12:1-12. THE DUTY OF BOLD SINCERITY AND TRUST IN GOD
CHAPTER XII. _Christ preaches to his disciples against hypocrisy; and against_ _timidity in publishing the Gospel_, 1-5. _Excites them to have confidence in Divine providence_, 6, 7. _Warns them a...
IN THE MEAN TIME - While he was discoursing with the scribes and Pharisees, as recorded in the last chapter. AN INNUMERABLE MULTITUDE - The original word is “myriad’s,” or ten thousands. It is used he...
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Warning Against Hypocrisy. (Luke 12:1)_ 2. Encouragements. (Luke 12:4) 3. Warning Against Covetousness. (Luke 12:15) 4. Warning Against Anxiety. ...
LUKE 12. A COLLECTION OF SAYINGS taken from Q and arranged in groups with more or less suitable introductions. LUKE 12:1. JESUS ENCOURAGES HIS DISCIPLES. (For parallels in Mt. see below.) After a war...
In the meantime, when the people had been gathered together in their thousands, so that they trampled on each other, Jesus began to say first of all to his disciples, "Be on your guard against the lea...
THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
IN. Greek. _en.App-104._ TRODE ONE UPON ANOTHER. trampled one another down. UNTO. Greek. _pros._ App-104. Not the same word as in Luke 12:11. FIRST. The Structure ("K ") on p. 1471 shows that this...
Luke 12:1-12. The Duty of bold Sincerity and Trust in God. 1. _when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people_ Rather, -when the myriads of the multitude had suddenly assembled....
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 1. In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they bode one upon another, he began to say to his disciples first of all, Beware you of th...
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DISCOURSE: 1524 CAUTION AGAINST HYPOCRISY Luke 12:1. _In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to sa...
WHEN THERE WERE GATHERED TOGETHER AN INNUMERABLE MULTITUDE— _Many thousands of people;_— των μυριαδων του οχλου; literally, _many myriads._ Perhaps this vast assemblage of people might be owing to an...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Arguments for Alertness (Luke 12:1-12) 12 In the meantime, when so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trod upon one another, he began to say...
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the le...
46 Compare Mat_23:4. 47 Compare Mat_23:29-36. 51 Compare Gen_4:8; 2Ch_24:20-21. 51 Men are to be judged by what they know as well as by what they do. To do that which you condemn in others convicts...
12:1 first, (b-26) Some read 'first of all beware.' but needlessly, I think. It was the first thing on his heart to tell them. Beware (c-27) See Note to Matthew 16:6 ....
WHEN THERE WERE] RV 'when the many thousands of the multitude were gathered together.' They were attracted by the dispute between our Lord and the Pharisees recorded in the last chapter Since our Lord...
THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES. THE RICH FOOL 1-12. Jesus warns His followers against Pharisaic hypocrisy, and exhorts them to be courageous in face of opposition. This speech is not unsuitable to the co...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 JESUS WARNS AND ENCOURAGES HIS *DISCIPLES 12:1-12 1 WARNING ABOUT THE FALSE LIVES OF THE *PHARISEES 12:1-3 V1 Thousands of people had gathered. T...
XII. (1) IN THE MEAN TIME. — More literally, _When the myriads of the multitude were gathered together._ The words must be taken in immediate sequence with the close of the previous chapter. The dispu...
_Exhortation to fearless utterance_, addressed to the disciples (_cf._ Matthew 10:17-33). ἐν οἷς, in these circumstances, _i.e._, while the assaults of the Pharisees and scribes on Jesus were going on...
THE SECRET OF FEARLESSNESS Luke 12:1-12 The program of this paragraph seems dark. The leaven of evil always at work; the body tortured and killed; confession difficult, denial easy; the trials befor...
Knowing that the enmity of the rulers against Him would proceed also against His disciples, He told them not to be afraid of those who kill the body, remembering ever their Father's care, as revealed...
In (1) the mean time, when there were gathered together (a) an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of...
_Beware ye of the leaven, &c. Christ calls the hypocrisy of the Pharisees heaven, which changes and corrupts the best intentions of men; for nothing is more destructive than hypocrisy to such as give...
CHAPTER 25 LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES Luke 12:1. _“Meanwhile myriads of the multitude, having come together, so that they were treading on one another, He began to speak first to His disciples, Take hee...
3 _d. To the Disciples: Luke 12:1-12_. This violent scene had found its echo outside; a considerable crowd had flocked together. Excited by the animosity of their chiefs, the multitude showed a dispos...
: _The assured Success of their Ministry, and the Fall of their Adversaries._ “ _In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upo...
(1) In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the...
CONTENTS Jesus is here preaching to the People. A Man from the throng complains to him of his Brother. The Lord takes occasion therefrom to reprove Covetousness, and discourseth on several Subjects....
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...
chapter 12 puts the disciples into this place of testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost, and with the world opposed to them, after the Lord's departure. It is the word and the Holy Ghost, instead of...
IN THE MEAN TIME,.... While Christ was discoursing with the Pharisees, and they were using him in the vilest manner, throwing out their invectives against him in order to draw off the people from him:...
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the lea...
_When there were gathered together an innumerable multitude_ Επισυναχθεισων των μυριαδων, literally, _myriads_ (that is, tens of thousands, how many is not said) _being gathered together._ By this it...
IN THE MEAN TIME; while he was delivering his discourse to the Pharisees. THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES; hypocrisy, the great sin of the Pharisees, which, like leaven, mingled itself with and corrupted...
IN THE MEANTIME, WHEN THERE WERE GATHERED TOGETHER AN INNUMERABLE MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE, INSOMUCH, THAT THEY TROD ONE UPON ANOTHER, HE BEGAN TO SAY UNTO HIS DISCIPLES FIRST OF ALL, BEWARE YE OF THE LEAV...
WARNING AGAINST HYPOCRISY AND COVETOUSNESS. The leaven of the. Pharisees:...
THE PEOPLE WARNED AGAINST FALSE LEADERS (vs.1-12) At a time when the crowd was extremely large, the Lord addressed His disciples "first of all," warning them to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees,...
1-12 A firm belief of the doctrine of God's universal providence, and the extent of it, would satisfy us when in peril, and encourage us to trust God in the way of duty. Providence takes notice of th...
LUKE CHAPTER 12 LUKE 12:1 Christ teacheth his disciples to avoid hypocrisy, and not to be fearful in publishing his doctrine. LUKE 12:13 He refuseth to be judge in a civil cause, and warns the people...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV -Examples from the Old Testament, Balaam, Moses, and Hezekiah, to Show How Completely the Instruction and Conduct of Christ[1137]...
Luke 12:1 In G1722 meantime G3739 multitude G3461 people G3793 together G1996 (G5685) that G5620 trampled G2662 ...
SECTION 5 (12:1-14:35). We commence here a new section of Luke. As we shall see this section centres around a mighty act of Jesus in delivering a woman bound by Satan, and thus doubled up and unable t...
INSTRUCTION TO HIS DISCIPLES ABOUT LIVING IN THE LIGHT OF ETERNITY (12:1-12). Approaching the detail of the section the first thing that Jesus wants to do is make His disciples think in the light of e...
‘In the mean time, when the many thousands of the multitude were gathered together, insomuch that they trod one on another, he began to say to his disciples first of all, “Beware you of the leaven of...
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...
CHAPTER 12 is made up of a series of discourses following each other in immediate succession, but with less of unity and logical connection than are found in most of our Lord's recorded sermons. Some...
Luke 12:1-12. WARNING AGAINST HYPOCRISY. Comp. the various parallel passages in Matthew. The connection: ‘Beware of hypocrisy (Luke 12:1), for all shall be made evident in the end (Luke 12:2), and ye...
Luke 12:1. IN THE MEAN TIME. Literally: in which things, _i.e.,_ during those just related. WHEN MANY THOUSANDS, lit., ‘the myriads,' etc. ‘Myriads' is used indefinitely here. FIRST. May join this...
IN THE MEANTIME (εν οις). It is a classic idiom to start a sentence or even a paragraph as here with a relative, "in which things or circumstances," without any expressed antecedent other than the i...
Luke 12:1 Profession without Practice. I. That even decently conducted Christians are most extensively and fearfully ruled by the opinion of society about them, instead of living by faith in the unse...
In this chapter, our Saviour dispels the fears of his disciples concerning temporal things, and especially their fear of persecution and their fear of want. Luke 12:1. In the mean time, when there we...
The teaching of our Lord, in this chapter, has very much to do with Christianity in connection with this present life, and its cares and troubles. God has nowhere promised us exemption from affliction...
CONTENTS: Jesus warns of leaven of the Pharisees. Parable of the rich fool. Parable of the second coming. Parable of the steward and his servants. Christ, the divider of men. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disci...
Luke 12:1. _There were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek is myriads, or ten thousands of people. Luke 12:5. _Power to cast into hell._ The Greek is Gehenna, as on Isaiah...
AS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE CROWDED TOGETHER. This is one of the statements which show the great influence of Christ on the people. [See _also_ Mark 1:33; Mark 2:2; Mark 3:9; Mark 6:31
_The leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy_ HYPOCRISY I. THE HYPOCRITE’S CHARACTER. 1. A hypocrite may be known by the fact that his speech and his actions are contrary to one another. As Jes...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:1 LEAVEN is a metaphor for the self-centered, hypocritical attitude of the PHARISEES in Luke 11:37. See notes on...
CHAPTER 12 VER. 1. _In the mean time when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek has "the myriads of the multitude." A myriad contains exactly ten thousand, and is...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 12:1. AN INNUMERABLE MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE.—“The many thousands of the multitude” (R.V.); lit. “the myriads of the multitude.” The discourse in this chapter is evidently in continu...
EXPOSITION LUKE 12:1 _The Lord_,_ after leaving the Pharisee_'_s house_,_ speaks at great length to a numerous crowd waiting for him_,_ addressing his words principally to his own disciples. _The for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 12. We are dealing with the final month in the ministry of Jesus. He has returned to Jerusalem. He will soon be leaving Jerusalem to go down to th...
1 Corinthians 15:3; 1 Corinthians 5:7; 1 Corinthians 5:8; 1 Peter 2:1;...
An innumerable multitude [τ ω ν μ υ ρ ι α δ ω ν τ ο υ ο χ λ ο υ]. The word muriav strictly means a number of ten thousand. It is our word myriad. Hence, generally, of any countless number. First of a...
He said to his disciples first — But afterward Luke 12:54 to all the people. Matthew 16:6....
In this chapter our blessed Saviour furnishes his diciples with many instructions for the worthy discharge of their function in preaching the gospel; particularly he recommends unto them two gracious...