whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness The applicationof the similar language in Matthew 10:26; Mark 4:22, is different. See Luke 8:17.
in closets Literally, "in the treasuriesor storehouses," i.e.in closed, secret places.
upon the housetops i.e. in the most public places of resort, so as to be heard in the streets below.
NOTHING COVERED - See the notes at Matthew 10:26. Luke 12:3 SHALL BE PROCLAIMED UPON THE HOUSETOPS - See the notes at Matthew 10:27. The custom of maki
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)...
THEREFORE. Instead of (Greek. _anti._ App-104.) which. HAVE SPOKEN. spake. DARKNESS. the darkness. IN. to. Greek _pros._ App-104. CLOSETS. the chambers. Occurs only here, Luke 12:24, and Matthew 6:...
ἈΝΘ' ὯΝ. ‘_Wherefore_,’ comp. ἀντὶ τούτου, ‘therefore,’ Ephesians 5:31; it means ‘because’ in Luke 1:20; Luke 19:44. ὍΣΑ ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΣΚΟΤΊΑΙ ΕἼΠΑΤΕ. The ἐν σκοτίᾳ here means ‘in obscurity.’ The _applicati...
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...
Luke 12:1-12. THE DUTY OF BOLD SINCERITY AND TRUST IN GOD...
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...
ΆΝΘ' ών = ΆΝΤ ΩΝ (G473; G3739) по отношению к этому, поэтому. Или может значить "следовательно" (Marshall), ΕΊΠΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, ΆΚΟΥΣΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ...
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...
For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. FOR THERE IS NOTHING COVERED (FROM VIEW), THAT SHALL NOT BE REVEALED; NEITHER HID (FROM KNOWLEDGE),...
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...
For in that day the most secret words and thoughts of hypocrites will be proclaimed to the whole creation. THEREFORE (RV 'Where-fore')] is better translated 'for,' 'because '(cp. Luke 1:20; Luke 19:44...
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...
THEREFORE WHATSOEVER YE HAVE SPOKEN IN DARKNESS. — See Note on Matthew 10:27. There is, it will be noted, a difference of the same character as in the last verse. As recorded in St. Matthew, it is “Wh...
ἀνθʼ ὧν, either = _quare_, inferring the particular case following from the general statement going before, or = because, assigning a reason for that statement. This verse = Matthew 10:27, but altered...
_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...
_House-tops. Our divine Saviour speaks here according to the custom of his own nation, where it was not uncommon for men to preach from the house-top, when they wished to deliver anything to the publi...
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...
: _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...
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...
(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...
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...
THEREFORE WHATSOEVER YE HAVE SPOKEN IN DARKNESS,.... In the most private manner, to one another: SHALL BE HEARD IN THE LIGHT; which makes all things manifest, the day shall declare it: AND THAT WHIC...
Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. Ver. 3. _See Trapp on "_ Mat 1...
_For there is nothing covered_, &c. All your actions shall be brought to light, either in this world or in the next. Wherefore take great care never to do any thing which cannot bear the light, but le...
THEREFORE, WHATSOEVER YE HAVE SPOKEN IN DARKNESS SHALL BE HEARD IN THE LIGHT; AND THAT WHICH YE HAVE SPOKEN IN THE EAR IN CLOSETS SHALL BE PROCLAIMED UPON THE HOUSETOPS. While the assaults of the Phar...
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...
We have something very like this MATTHEW 10:27, spoken by way of precept. It seemeth to be a sentence also variously applied: it may be left indifferent to the reader, whether he will understand it as...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI Comprehending this, as He who taught wished, and receiving it in its grand sense, he teaches worthily "on the housetops"[221]...
Luke 12:3 Therefore G473 G3739 whatever G3745 spoken G2036 (G5627) in G1722 dark G4653 heard G191 ...
“Wherefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.” The same is true of their...
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...
Luke 12:2-9. See on Matthew 10:26-33, which was also spoken to the disciples. MY FRIENDS (Luke 12:4) is peculiar, see John 15:13-15
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...
IN THE INNER CHAMBERS (εν τοις ταμειοις). Old form ταμιειον, a store chamber (Luke 12:24), secret room (Matthew 6:6; Luke 12:3)....
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
_Nothing covered, that shall not be revealed_ THE REVEALING PROCESS There is a tendency in things everywhere to manifest their natures, and make themselves known. Seeds that are buried, seek the lig...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:2 Everything will BE REVEALED and BE (made) KNOWN by God (compare Luke 8:17)—a referen
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...
Ecclesiastes 10:12; Ecclesiastes 10:13; Ecclesiastes 10:20; Job 24:14;...
Closets [τ α μ ε ι ο ι ς]. The word has the same root as temnw, to cut or divide, and means an apartment where supplies are divided and apportioned : a treasury, magazine, and therefore a secret and w...
Matthew 10:27....