Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Luke 14:25-35
LESSONS OF WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS, AND OF COUNTING THE COST; THE TOWER-BUILDER; THE WARRING KING; THE SAVOURLESS SALT
LESSONS OF WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS, AND OF COUNTING THE COST; THE TOWER-BUILDER; THE WARRING KING; THE SAVOURLESS SALT
See notes on Matthew 10:37....
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. ...
DISCIPLESHIP AND ITS COST. The passage is a reminder that, despite the universality of the Kingdom, the number of its true subjects is small. To the crowd that is following Him Jesus applies a stringe...
UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF HOSTILE MEN (Luke 14:1-6)...
Great crowds were on the way with Jesus. He turned and said to them, "If any man comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own...
25-35. Lessons of Whole-heartedness, and of Counting the Cost; the Tower-builder; the warring King; the SAVOURLESS SALT. 25. _And there went great multitudes with him_ This is evidently a scene of th...
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 25. AND THERE WENT GREAT MULTITUDES WITH HIM: AND HE TURNED, AND SAID TO THEM, 26. IF ANY MAN COME TO ME, AND HATE NOT HIS FATHER, AND MOTHER, AND WIFE, AND CHILDREN, AND BRETHREN, AND SISTERS, YE...
_THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP -- LUKE 14:25-35:_ Large crowds often accompanied Jesus as He traveled about. Jesus taught the cost of discipleship saying, "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, a...
ΣΥΝΕΠΟΡΕΎΟΝΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΣΥΝΠΟΡΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G4848) идти вместе, сопровождать, с _dat._ ΣΤΡΑΦΕΊΣ _aor. pass. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΣΤΡΈΦΩ (G4762) обращаться, оборачиваться....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Grounded (Luke 14:25-35) 25 Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, 26If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and...
And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, AND THERE WENT GREAT MULTITUDES WITH HIM - on His final journey to Jerusalem. If they were going up to the Passover, movin...
10 Compare Pro_25:6-7. 12 The pure joy of giving is largely lost when it degenerates into a trade. Yet it seems from this that we cannot give without being recompensed. If we give to get we may, indee...
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)....
THAT WE MUST GIVE UP ALL TO FOLLOW CHRIST, AND COUNT THE COST BEFORE WE DO SO. The two parables of the Rash Builder (Luke 14:28) and the Rash King (Luke 14:31) are peculiar to Lk. The multitude who fo...
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...
_Concio ad populum_. Jesus now appears on the way, and followed by “many multitudes” (ὄχλοι πολλοί, Luke 14:25) to whom He speaks. Thus sayings which in Mt. and Mk. form part of disciple-instruction ...
THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP Luke 14:25-35 Here we have our Lord's use of the winnowing-fan. Amid the teeming crowds He knew that there were many light and superficial souls who had not realized the cos...
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...
(5) And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, (5) Even those affections which are in themselves worthy of praise and commendation must be controlled and kept in ord...
TERMS OF DISCIPLESHIP Luke 14:25-27. “ _The multitudes were traveling along with Him_, _and turning He said to them_, _If any one comes to Me_, _and hates not his father_, _mother_, _wife_, _children_...
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...
“ _And there went great multitudes with Him: and He turned, and said unto them_, 26. _If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea...
4. _A Warning against hasty Professions: Luke 14:25-35_. The journey resumes its course; great crowds follow Jesus. There is consequently an attraction to His side. This appears in the plurals ὄχλοι,...
And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his...
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 THERE WENT GREAT MULTITUDES WITH HIM,.... From Galilee, as he journeyed from thence to Jerusalem; some for one thing, and some another, and all perhaps were in expectation of his setting up a temp...
And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, Ver. 25. _And there went great multitudes with him_] Expecting great things from him, and gaping after an earthly felicity...
_And there went great multitudes with him_ It seems they accompanied him from place to place, with eager desire, doubtless, to have the Messiah's kingdom erected; proposing to themselves all manner of...
GREAT MULTITUDES WITH HIM; without any suitable apprehension of the self-denial which his service would require of them....
THE OBLIGATIONS OF CHRIST'S DISCIPLESHIP. Bearing the cross:...
AND THERE WENT GREAT MULTITUDES WITH HIM; AND HE TURNED AND SAID UNTO THEM,...
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...
25-35 Though the disciples of Christ are not all crucified, yet they all bear their cross, and must bear it in the way of duty. Jesus bids them count upon it, and then consider of it. Our Saviour exp...
Ver. 25-27. We met with much the same MATTHEW 10:37,38. The sum of the words is, That no man can be a true disciple of Christ, that giveth any friend, or any thing, a preference to Christ in the affec...
Luke 14:25 Now G1161 great G4183 multitudes G3793 went G4848 (G5711) Him G846 And G2532 turned G4762 ...
THE CALL TO DISCIPLESHIP (14:25-35). Luke closes this section off as he opened it by showing Jesus as challenging His disciples and His would be disciples to consider what was involved in what they we...
‘Now there went with him great crowds, and he turned, and said to them,' Great crowds ‘went on together with Him', as He went on His way to Jerusalem, and they included many would be disciples who wer...
THE discourse was delivered, on the way to Jerusalem, probably very shortly after the meal in the Pharisee's house (Luke 14:1-24). The _place_ was therefore Perea, and the _time_ one of the three days...
Luke 14:25. THERE WENT, etc. A continued journeying with Him is meant. The MULTITUDES were probably from different places: Those who originally followed Him from Galilee, others from Perea, and variou...
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...
AND HE TURNED (κα στραφεις). Second aorist passive participle of στρεφω, common verb. It is a dramatic act on the part of Jesus, a deliberate effort to check the wild and unthinking enthusiasm of t...
Luke 14:25. _And there went great multitudes with him:_ During at least a part of his earthly ministry, Christ was very popular. The people crowded to his feet, and they were willing to make him a ki...
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....
_If any man come to Me, and hate not, etc_ THE STATUTE-LAW OF DISCIPLESHIP I. THE NATURE OF THIS NECESSARY QUALIFICATION OF A TRUE DISCIPLE OF CHRIST. 1. An esteem of Christ above all. 2. The hear...
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 14:25. THERE WENT WITH HIM.—_I.e._, journeyed with Him; many, if not most, of them being on their way to one of the feasts in Jerusalem. The multitudes were attracted by Christ’s...
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 6:24; Luke 12:1...
Our Saviour by these expressions does not condemn natural love and affection, either to our relations, or our own lives, but only regulates and directs it. Showing that our first and chief love ought...