points the moral. ἄρα : perhaps with Schleiermacher we should write ἆρα, taking what follows as a question. οἰκοδομεῖτε, ye build, absolutely (without object, vide note 3 above). Tomb-building in honour of dead prophets and killing of living prophets have one root: stupid superstitious reverence for the established order.
LUKE 11:48 oivkodomei/te {C} Since oivkodomei/n is usually transitive, most scribes added a suitable object, drawn from ver. Luke 11:47....
Verse 48. _TRULY YE BEAR WITNESS_] Ye acknowledge that those of old who killed the prophets were your _fathers_, and ye are about to show, by your conduct towards me and my apostles, that ye are not _...
See the notes at Matthew 23:29. Luke 11:49 THE WISDOM OF GOD - By the “wisdom of God,” here, is undoubtedly meant the Saviour himself. What he immediately says is not written in the Old Testament. Je...
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Prayer Given to the Disciples (Luke 11:1 .)_ 2. The Friend at Midnight. (Luke 11:5) 3. Encouragement to Pray. (Luke 11:11) 4. A Demon Cast Out and the Blasphemous Accusation. ...
CONDEMNATION OF PHARISEES AND SCRIBES._ Cf._ (though the arrangement is different) Matthew 23*, where the Jerusalem setting is more suitable (perhaps Lk. wishes to make the Jerusalem discourses end wi...
A scribe answered, "Teacher, when you talk like that you are insulting us." Jesus said, "Woe to you scribes too! because you bind burdens upon men that are hard to bear and you yourselves do not lay a...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
TRULY. So then. THAT YE ALLOW. and give your full approval to....
_bear witness...allow_ We find the same two words used of St Paul in Acts 7:58; Acts 8:1. Allow means -approve after trial," and is derived from _allaudare._"The Lord _alloweth_the righteous," Psalms...
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...
After ΟἸΚΟΔΟΜΕΙ͂ΤΕ, AC add αὐτῶν τὰ μνημεῖα, which words are omitted by אBDL Ti[236] [236] Ti. Tischendorf. 48. ΜΆΡΤΥΡΈΣ ἘΣΤΕ … ΣΥΝΕΥΔΟΚΕΙ͂ΤΕ. We find the same two words used of St Paul in Acts 7:58;...
THE INVITATION OF THE PHARISEE AND THE OPEN RUPTURE...
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...
Ver 45. Then answered one of the Lawyers, and said to him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also. 46. And he said, Woe to you also, you Lawyers! for you lade men with burdens grievous to be borne,...
_JESUS REBUKED THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES -- LUKE 11:37-54:_ Jesus condemned the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses. As Jesus ate with a Pharisee he was shocked that Jesus did not keep thei...
ΣΥΝΕΥΔΟΚΕΊΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΕΥΔΟΚΈΩ (G4909) одобрять, полностью соглашаться....
THAT YE ALLOW— _That ye approve._...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Pharisaism (Luke 11:37-54) 37 While he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in and sat at table. 38The Pharisee was astonished to see, that he...
And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, NOW DO YE PH...
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...
THE LORD'S PRAYER. THE SIGN OF JONAH 1-4. The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9). See on Mt. If the Lord's Prayer was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion. His version, however (as...
CHRIST IS ENTERTAINED BY A PHARISEE. HE DENOUNCES PHARISAIC FORMALISM AND HYPOCRISY. For the relation of this discourse to Matthew 23:1, see on Matthew 23:1....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT PRAYER 11:1-13 1 THE PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT 11:1-4 V1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of...
TRULY YE BEAR WITNESS THAT YE ALLOW. — The better MSS. give, _Truly are ye witnesses, and ye allow._ The word “allow” has, as always in the English Bible, the meaning of “approving of,” “consenting to...
SEARCHING WORDS FOR HYPOCRITES Luke 11:45-54 The minute oral and written rules promulgated by the Hebrew religious leaders overlaid and almost buried under their weight the simple Mosaic code. They w...
Watching the Master at prayer, His disciples were inspired with a desire to pray, and requested that they be taught. He responded to them in a fourfold statement. First, He gave them a model. Then He...
Truly (k) ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. (k) When you persecute God's servants like mad men, even as your fathers...
_Build, &c. See the notes Matthew xxiii. 29. (Witham)_...
WOES PRONOUNCED ON THE PHARISEES & THEOLOGIANS Luke 11:42-54. _“But woe unto you Pharisees, because you tithe mint, anise, and every herb, and you pass by judgment and the love of God; it behooveth yo...
_Persecuting Orthodoxy._ “ _Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them._ 48. _Truly ye are witnesses that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they inde...
2 _d. To the Scribes: Luke 11:45-54_. A remark made by a scribe gives a new turn to the conversation. The Pharisees were only a religious party; but the scribes, the experts in the law, formed a profe...
(42) But, woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgement, and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. (43...
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...
The prayer which He taught His disciples (chapter 11) has respect also to the position into which they came before the gift of the Holy Ghost. [32] Jesus Himself prayed, as the dependent man on earth....
TRULY YE BEAR WITNESS, THAT YE ALLOW THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHERS,.... Or "ye bear witness, and ye allow"; that is, they both witnessed that their fathers killed the prophets, and they consented to what...
Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. Ver. 48. _And ye build their sepulchres_] And so ye set up the trophies of y...
Sin and doom of the Pharisees. Matthew 23:4; Matthew 23:29-36....
The insulted lawyer:...
TRULY YE BEAR WITNESS THAT YE ALLOW THE DEEDS OF YOUR FATHERS; FOR THEY INDEED KILLED THEM, AND YE BUILD THEIR SEPULCHERS. A certain scribe, one of the teachers of the Law, who was sitting by, felt th...
VALUABLE INSTRUCTION AS TO PRAYER (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended in Mary). His...
37-54 We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God ha...
Ver. 11:48. SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 11:47...
Tertullian On Prayer , at all events, are ever unclean, eternally dyed with the blood of the prophets, and of the Lord Himself; and on that account, as being hereditary culprits from their privity to...
Luke 11:48 fact G686 witness G3140 (G5719) that G2532 approve G4909 (G5719) deeds G2041 your G5216 fathers...
THE WOEFUL STATE OF THOSE WHOSE LIGHT IS DARKNESS, AND WHO THEREFORE COME UNDER HIS WOES (11:37-52). But sadly there are those whose eyes turn away from the light. Instead of their eyes being fixed on...
“Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. So are you witnesses and consent to the works of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.” Fur...
THIS discourse closely resembles the great denunciation of the Pharisees (Matthew 23); but the circumstances of the two are entirely different; the one was uttered just before our Lord departed solemn...
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...
Luke 11:46-48. See on Matthew 23:4; Matthew 23:29-31. THEIR TOMBS (Luke 11:48), is necessarily supplied in English, though not f
CONSENT (συνευδοκειτε). Double compound (συν, ευ, δοκεω), to think well along with others, to give full approval. A late verb, several times in the N.T., in Acts 8:1 of Saul's consenting to and agre...
Luke 11:14. _And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils thr...
CONTENTS: Jesus' doctrine of prayer. Jesus charged with casting out demons by Beelzebub, and His answer. Woes denounced upon the Pharisees and lawyers. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Jonah, Sol...
Luke 11:1. _Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples._ The disciples of John were eminent for fasting and prayer; and though the prayers of the jews were good, yet they were not exact...
SO THE LORD SAID TO HIM. Jesus may have said this more than once. See notes on a similar lesson in Matthew 23:1-36; Luke 11:41 is only given by Luke. The Jewish leaders hated everybody who was not a p...
_Ye build the sepulchres of the prophets_ BUILDING THE TOMBS OF THE PROPHETS The Jews, whilst honouring the prophets and reproaching their fathers, were flattering themselves that they could never h...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:47 The unusual expression WISDOM OF GOD probably means “God in his wisdom” or “God, speaking to express his wisdom.” FROM THE BLOOD OF ABEL ...
CHAPTER 11 VER. 2. _When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name_. S. Matthew adds this prayer to the sermon on the mount, whilst S. Luke places it at a later period. Either...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 11:37. BESOUGHT.—Simply, “asked” (R.V.). TO DINE.—Rather, “that He would _breakfast_ with him.” The word used means a noon-day meal = our late breakfast or luncheon. Luke 11:38....
EXPOSITION LUKE 11:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the_ _subject of prayer. _Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of _time _or _place _enables us to fix the scene or date with any...
Tonight, chapter 11 in the gospel according to Luke. Again, as Luke is pointing out the human side of Jesus, though He was God, He became man. He is the God-man. He is divine, and yet, He is human. Th...
2 Chronicles 36:16; Ezekiel 18:19; Hebrews 11:35; James 5:10; Job
Ye bear witness that ye allow [μ α ρ τ υ ρ ε ς ε σ τ ε κ α ι σ υ ν ε υ δ ο κ ε ι τ ε]. Rev., more correctly, ye are witnesses and consent. The compound verb means "give your full approval." Ye think ...
Whom they killed, ye build their sepulchres — Just like them pretending great reverence for the ancient prophets, while ye destroy those whom God sends to yourselves. Ye therefore bear witness by this...