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Luke 14:6

LUKE—NOTE ON Luke 14:6 could not reply. Jesus has answered the Pharisees’ objections, and yet they will not believe in him.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    See the notes at Matthew 12:11. WHICH OF YOU ... - In this way Jesus refuted the notion of the Pharisees. If it was lawful to save an ox on the Sabbath, it was also to save the life of a man. To this...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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. ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A SABBATH WITH A PHARISEE. A companion picture to Luke 13:10. When in Luke 6:6 Lk. relates the cure of the man with a withered hand (Mark 3:1; Matthew 12:9) he

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    UNDER THE SCRUTINY OF HOSTILE MEN (Luke 14:1-6)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    On the Sabbath day Jesus had gone into the house of one of the rulers who belonged to the Pharisees to eat bread; and they were watching him. And--look you-- there was a man before him who had dropsy....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ANSWER AGAIN. reply. TO. as TO. Greek _pros._ App-101....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _they could not answer him again to these things_ A fact which never makes any difference to the convictions of ignorant hatred and superstitious narrowness....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    SABBATH HEALING OF A MAN WITH THE DROPSY...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΟΥ̓Κ ἼΣΧΥΣΑΝ�. Inability to answer never makes any difference in the convictions of ignorant hatred and superstitious narrowness....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 1. And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. 2. And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _HEALING OF A MAN ON THE SABBATH -- LUKE 14:1-6:_ Jesus accepted an invitation from a leader of the Pharisees to have a meal at his house. The meal was on the Sabbath day. Jesus came under careful scr...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΊΣΧΥΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΙΣΧΎΩ (G2480) быть сильным, быть способным, с _inf._ ΆΝΤΑΠΟΚΡΙΘΉΝΑΙ _aor. pass. (dep.) inf. от_ ΑΝΤΑΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G470) возражать, отвечать. О значении _предл._ сочетания _с...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Good (Luke 14:1-6) 14One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him.2 And behold, there was a man before h...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? AND JESUS ANSWERING SPAKE UNTO THE LAWYERS AND PHARISEES, SAYING, IS IT LAWFUL TO HEAL ON...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    25 Compare Mat_25:10-12. 27 Compare 2Ti_2:19. 29 Eastern etiquette is most stringent as to the placing of guests at a banquet. The most honorable must have the first place and the least the last. So...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND THEY COULD NOT ANSWER HIM AGAIN. — The Greek is, perhaps, a little more emphatic — “They _had no power,_ they were _powerless_ to answer him.”...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    οὐκ ἰσ. ἀνταποκριθῆναι (again in Romans 9:20): silenced but of course not convinced. The difference in the way of thinking too great to be overcome in a moment. Luke has three Sabbath cures. The prese...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _The dropsical man healed, with relative conversation_, in Lk. only (_cf._ Matthew 12:9-14)....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    Luke 14:1-24 contain a digest of sayings of Jesus at the table of a Pharisee, this being the third instance in this Gospel of such friendly intercourse between Him and members of the Pharisaic party....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ὑδρωπικὸς (ὕδρωψ): here only in N.T., a solitary instance of this disease among the healing acts of Jesus. No conceivable reason for its being mentioned except that it was a fact. ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ, bef...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE LAMENT FOR THOSE WHO “WOULD NOT” Luke 13:31-35; Luke 14:1-6 Our Lord was at that time in Perea, in the jurisdiction of Herod, who probably desired to get rid of Him, lest His presence should intr...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    CHAPTER 11 THE DROPSICAL MAN HEALED Luke 14:1-6. “ _And it came to pass that He entered into the house of a certain one of the rulers of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread_, _and they were wat...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    1 _st. Luke 14:1-6_. To accept an invitation to the house of a Pharisee, after the previous scenes, was to do an act at once of courage and kindness. The host was one of the _chief_ of his sect. There...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    3. _Jesus at a Feast: Luke 14:1-24_. The following piece allows us to follow Jesus in His domestic life and familiar conversations. It is connected with the preceding by the fact that it is with a Pha...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the drops...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY COULD NOT ANSWER HIM AGAIN TO THESE THINGS,.... The justice, equity, mercy, and humanity that appeared in our Lord's reasonings, and the cases he instanced in, being agreeable to their own te...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they could not answer him again to these things. Ver. 6. _And they could not answer_] Yet ran away with the bit in their mouths....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And answered them_ Accordingly, while the Pharisees were considering with themselves how to turn the miracle against him, he disconcerted them by proving the lawfulness of what he had done from their...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    Healing on the Sabbath. Matthew 12:11-12....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CHRIST THE GUEST OF A PHARISEE. Luke 14:1 Healing a man afflicted with dropsy on the Sabbath:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND THEY COULD NOT ANSWER HIM AGAIN TO THESE THINGS. The Pharisees continued their method of attempting to provoke Jesus to some rash utterance, Luke 11:53. It was for this reason, also, that He was i...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 This Pharisee, as well as others, seems to have had an ill design in entertaining Jesus at his house. But our Lord would not be hindered from healing a man, though he knew a clamour would be raise...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 14:1...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Luke 14:6 And G2532 could G2480 (G5656) not G3756 answer G470 (G5677) Him G846 regarding G4314 things...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And they could not answer again to these things.' They had no answer to give. How do you accuse a man of blasphemy when He heals successfully in the name of God? So they had nothing to say. But they...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A SABBATH MEAL AT A PHARISEE'S HOUSE; THE HEALING OF A MAN WITH DROPSY (14:1-6). It is unusual in Luke for us to be given the full details of the setting, yet in this passage Jesus is invited into the...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Luke 14:6. AND THEY COULD NOT. The argument was conclusive. Thus thwarted and overcome, they doubtless hated Him the more....

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    This section, peculiar to Luke, has been aptly styled ‘the Son of man eating and drinking.' All the incidents occurred at a feast Luke 14:1; Luke 14:7). The parable of the Great Supper Luke 14:16-24)...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    COULD NOT ANSWER AGAIN (ουκ ισχυσαν ανταποκριθηνα). Did not have strength to answer back or in turn (αντι-) as in Romans 9:20. They could not take up the argument and were helpless. They hated to a...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    14:1-6. And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had t...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    A MAN WHOSE LEGS AND ARMS WERE SWOLLEN. Jesus knows they are watching to see if he will heal this man on the Sabbath. DOES OUR LAW ALLOW? The Law of Moses did allow it, but their Tradition said it was...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees_ THE GOSPEL FOR THE SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY I. WE HERE BEHOLD OUR SAVIOUR IN THE SOCIAL CIRCLE. Jesus was not a recluse. He had a kind...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _And they could not answer Him again to these things._ Because they were convinced by the truth of His reasoning. Yet privately they murmured amongst themselves, and afterwards openly clamoured amongs...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 14:1. ONE OF THE CHIEF PHARISEES.—Rather, “one of the rulers of the Pharisees” (R.V.). The phrase is a peculiar one, since the Pharisees, as such, had no rulers; it may refer to...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 6:10; Luke 13:17; Luke 20:26; Luke 20:40; Luke 21:15...

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