Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Luke 17:11-19
THE CLEANSED TEN; THE THANKLESS NINE
THE CLEANSED TEN; THE THANKLESS NINE
Verse Luke 17:11. _HE PASSED THROUGH THE MIDST OF SAMARIA AND GALILEE_] He first went through Galilee, whence he set out on his journey; and then through Samaria, of which mention is made, Luke 9:51-...
THE MIDST OF SAMARIA AND GALILEE - He went from Galilee, and probably traveled through the chief villages and towns in it and then left it; and as Samaria was situated “between” Galilee and Jerusalem,...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Concerning Offenses and Forgiveness. (Luke 17:1)_ 2. Increase of Faith and Lowly Service. (Luke 17:5) 3. The Ten Lepers. (Luke 17:11) 4. Concerning the Kingdom and His Second Coming...
LUKE 17. The chapter illustrates the difficulty experienced by Lk. in using the material at his disposal. He here brings together without any clear connexion of thought a selection of sayings of Chris...
LAWS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Luke 17:1-10)...
When Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem, he was going along between Samaria and Galilee; and, as he entered a village, ten lepers, who stood far off, met him. They lifted up their voices and said, "Jes...
IT CAME TO PASS. A Hebraism. AS HE WENT. as He was on (Greek. _en._ App-104.) His way. TO. unto. Greek. _eis._ App-104. THE MIDST OF: i.e. between them. GALILEE. See App-169....
11-19. The Cleansed Ten; the Thankless Nine. 11. _as he went to Jerusalem_ Rather, as they were on their way. The most natural place chronologically, for this incident would have been after Luke 9:56...
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...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, случаться, с _предл._ и _inf._ в семитском обороте (_см._ Luke 2:1). ΠΟΡΕΎΕΣΘΑΙ _praes. med. (dep.) inf. от_ ΠΟΡΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G4198) идти, пу...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Grateful (Luke 17:11-19) 11 On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. 12And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood a...
And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WENT TO JERUSALEM, THAT HE [THE 'HE' IS EMPHATIC kai (G2532 ) autos...
1 The Lord is through with the unbelievers and now addresses His own disciples. He anticipates the fact that, even among themselves, there would be much to cause them to stumble and fall. He seeks to...
THROUGH THE MIDST OF (or, rather, 'between') SAMARIA AND GALILEE] 'The caravans of Galilee took either the Samaritan route or the Peræan. Jesus follows neither, but travels along the boundary between...
TEN LEPERS CLEANSED (peculiar to Lk). For leprosy see on Matthew 8:1. The healing of a Samaritan, and the stress laid upon his greater gratitude, is in keeping with the character of this Gentile Gospe...
OCCASIONS OF OFFENCE. THE TEN LEPERS. THE SECOND ADVENT 1, 2. On causing others to sin. See on Matthew 18:6; Matthew 18:7. 2, ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES] An affectionate designation of the disciples, e...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 17 THE DANGER IF YOU CAUSE OTHER PEOPLE TO *SIN 17:1-2 V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘Things will certainly happen that turn people away from God....
AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WENT TO JERUSALEM. — This is the first distinct note of time in St. Luke’s narrative since Luke 9:51. It appears to coincide with the journey of which we read in Matthew 19:...
εἰς Ἱερ.: the note of time seems to take us back to Luke 9:51. No possibility of introducing historic sequence into the section of Lk. lying between Luke 9:51 and Luke 18:15. αὐτὸς, He without emphasi...
_The ten lepers_....
THE MAN WHO WAS GRATEFUL Luke 17:11-21 Their common misery drew these poor outcasts together and made them forget the fierce national antipathies of Jew and Samaritan. When bidden to go to the priest...
The thinking of the Master for His disciples is always that they should live in love. He knew, however, that offenses must come. In that connection He uttered the solemn word of warning, "Woe unto him...
(6) And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. (6) Christ does good even to those who will be unthankful, but the benefits of God to salvat...
CHAPTER 1 THE TEN LEPERS Luke 17:11-19. _“And it came to pass, while He was journeying to Jerusalem, and He was going through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.”_ These two countries lie side by side....
1. _The Ten Lepers: Luke 17:11-19_. VERS. 11-19. Luke 17:11, even in its construction, reminds us of Luke 9:51. The καὶ αὐτός has here, as well as there, peculiar force. The caravans of Galilee took e...
THIRD CYCLE: THE LAST SCENES OF THE JOURNEY, LUKE 17:11 TO LUKE 19:27. This third section brings us to Bethany, to the gates of Jerusalem, and to the morning of Palm Day. It seems to me evident that L...
(11) And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. (12) And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
As, on a former occasion, Matthew and the other two Evangelists (Matthew 8:1; Mark 1:40; Luke 5:12) related that _a leper _had been _cleansed _by Christ, so Luke mentions that the same miracle of heal...
Grace is the spring of the Christian's walk, and furnishes directions for it. He cannot with impunity (chapter 17) despise the weak. He must not be weary of pardoning his brother. If he have faith but...
AND IT CAME TO PASS AS HE WENT TO JERUSALEM,.... That is, Jesus, as the Persic version expresses it; though the Ethiopic version reads in the plural, "they going to Jerusalem passed", c. that is, the...
And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. Ver. 11. _He passed through Samaria and Galilee_] Albeit he had forbidden his apostles to pass i...
_He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee_ As Samaria lay between Galilee and Judea, and therefore our Lord, taking his journey to Jerusalem, must go first through Galilee, and then through...
THE TEN LEPERS. The cleansing:...
AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WENT TO JERUSALEM, THAT HE PASSED THROUGH THE MIDST OF SAMARIA AND GALILEE....
GRACE IN VIEW OF OFFENSES (vs.1-4) We have seen the grace of God clearly and beautifully declared, yet the world rejecting it. The Lord Jesus then spoke to His disciples. What should be their attitud...
11-19 A sense of our spiritual leprosy should make us very humble whenever we draw near to Christ. It is enough to refer ourselves to the compassions of Christ, for they fail not. We may look for God...
Ver. 11-13. Christ's nearest way from Galilee to Jerusalem was through Samaria. In a certain town ten lepers met him, for though the law forbade them any other society, yet it did not restrain them fr...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV its enactments even in His cure of the ten lepers. These He simply commanded to show themselves to the priest; "and as they went, He cleansed them"[1389] Gospel of...
Luke 17:11 Now G2532 happened G1096 (G5633) as G1722 He G846 went G4198 (G5738) to G1519 Jerusalem...
‘And it came about that, as they were on the way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.' When Luke gives a detailed introduction he regularly has a purpose in it. Thus...
CHRONOLOGY. The date of this incident has been much discussed. It evidently belongs to the general journey to Jerusalem spoken of in chap. Luke 9:51. Robinson and many other harmonists place it at the...
Luke 17:11. AS THEY WERE ON THEIR WAY TO JERUSALEM. The correct reading leaves the time quite indefinite; comp. chap. Luke 9:51. BETWEEN SAMARIA AND GALILEE. This seems to be the sense of the correct...
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...
THROUGH THE MIDST OF SAMARIA AND GALILEE (δια μεσον Σαμαριας κα Γαλιλαιας). This is the only instance in the N.T. of δια with the accusative in the local sense of "through." Xenophon and Plato use δ...
Luke 17:11. _And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers whi...
Luke 17:11. _And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, wh...
Luke 17:11. _And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee._ There is but One of whom we will think tonight, our divine Lord, who was on his wa...
CONTENTS: Instruction in forgiveness. Parable of service. Ten lepers healed. Second coming of Jesus foretold. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, ten lepers, Pharisees, Noah, Lot, Lot's wife. CONCLUSION:...
Luke 17:1. _It is impossible but that offences will come._ Such as the disciples had just seen, the contempt and derision evinced by the pharisees; but woe to the man, and woe to the nation which shal...
AS JESUS MADE HIS WAY TO JERUSALEM. The time of this is uncertain. If this happened on his last tour, it would be just after he left Galilee, before he reached Perea. HE WENT BETWEEN SAMARIA AND GALIL...
_Ten men that were lepers_ THE TEN LEPERS I. THEIR ORIGINAL CONDITION. Defiled. Separated. II. THEIR APPLICATION TO CHRIST. 1. Observe the distance they kept from His person. 2. The earnestness o...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 17:11 ON THE WAY TO JERUSALEM. See Luke 9:51; Luke 13:22. For...
CHAPTER 17 VER. 5. _And the Apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith._ The Apostles said this, when, from their little faith, they had been unable to cast out the devil from the lunatic. They the...
_And it came to pass as He was going up to Jerusalem_ from the borders of Cæsarea Philippi or Paneas, as is clear from S. Matthew 17:22, to Jerusalem; to the feast of tabernacles, as appears from S. J...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 17:11. SAMARIA AND GALILEE.—This mention of Samaria before Galilee is perplexing, being the opposite direction to a journey to Jerusalem. Probably “through the midst” is to be un...
EXPOSITION LUKE 17:1 _The_ _Master_'_s teaching on the subject of the injury worked on the souls of others by our sins. The disciples pray for an increase of faith that they may be kept from such sin...
Now He turns again to His disciples. Then said he unto his disciples, It is impossible but that offenses will come (Luke 17:1): You cannot help if you're living in this world, you're going to have of...
John 4:4; Luke 9:51; Luke 9:52...
Through the midst of. It may also mean between or on the borders of. The Am. Rev. insists on the latter....
Observe here, 1. Though the Samaritans were bitter enemies to the Jews, and had been guilty of great incivility towards our Saviour, yet our Saviour in his journey to Jerusalem balks them not, but bes...