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Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Luke 23:46

φωνῇ μεγάλῃ : this expression is used in Mt. and Mk. in connection with the “My God, My God,” which Lk. omits. In its place comes the “Father, into Thy hands”. Here as in the agony in the garden Lk.'s account fails to sound the depths of Christ's humiliation. It must not be inferred that he did not know of the “Eli, Eli”. Either he personally, or his source, or his first readers, could not bear the thought of it. παρατίθεμαι τ. π. μ.: an echo of Psalms 31:6, and to be understood in a similar sense, as an expression of trust in God in extremis. Various shades of meaning have been put on the words, among which is that Jesus died by a free act of will, handing over His soul to God as a deposit to be kept safe (Grotius, Bengel, Hahn, etc.).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 46. _INTO THY HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT_] Or, _I will commit _ _my spirit - I deposit my soul in thy hands_. Another proof of the _immateriality_ of the soul, and of its _separate_ existence whe...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    See the notes at Matthew 27:45....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 23 _ 1. The son of man before Pilate and Herod. (Luke 23:1)_ 2. Pilate Yields to the People's Will; Barabbas Freed and the Son of man Condemned. (Luke 23:13) 3. The Crucifixion of the Son Of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DEATH OF JESUS (Mark 15:33 *, Matthew 27:45 *). LUKE 23:45. THE SUN'S LIGHT FAILING: the words do not necessarily imply an eclipse. The rending of the Temple veil is earlier than in Mk....

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    TRIAL BEFORE PILATE AND SILENCE BEFORE HEROD (Luke 23:1-12)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    By this time it was about midday, and there was darkness over the whole land until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the light of the sun failed. And the veil of the Temple was rent in the midst. When J...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    COMMEND. commit, or entrust. Compare Psalms 31:5. Act 7:59. 1 Peter 2:23. SPIRIT. Greek. _pneuma._ App-101. Compare Luke 8:55. GAVE UP THE GHOST. expired, or breathed (His last)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice_, _he said_ Rather, And, crying with a loud voice, Jesus said. St Luke here omits the _Eli, Eli_, _lama sabachthani_, and the effect of that cry on the mult...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    DARKNESS. THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE RENT. THE END. REMORSE OF THE SPECTATORS...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΚΑῚ ΦΩΝΉΣΑΣ ΦΩΝΗ͂Ι ΜΕΓΆΛΗΙ. ‘And, crying with a loud voice’ (not “when he had cried,” A. V[411]). St Luke here omits the _Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani_, and the effect of that cry on the multitude (Matt...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    VER 44. AND IT WAS ABOUT THE SIXTH HOUR, AND THERE WAS A DARKNESS OVER ALL THE EARTH UNTIL THE NINTH HOUR. 45. AND THE SUN WAS DARKENED, AND THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS RENT IN THE MIDST. 46. AND WHEN...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΦΩΝΉΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΦΩΝΈΩ (G5455) звать, кричать, ΠΑΡΑΤΊΘΕΜΑΙ _praes. ind. med. от_ ΠΑΡΑΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G3908) _med._ передавать, поручать кому-л., уполномочивать, доверять (BAGD). Psalms 30...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I COMMEND MY SPIRIT:— Παραθησομαι,— _I place,_ as a precious deposit. See on Psalms 31:5 and for the next clause, the note on Matthew 27:50. Dr. Heylin has well and nervously described our Lord's pass...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Impaled (Luke 23:26-49) 26 And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Je...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. For the exposition, see the notes at ; and at John 19:31....

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

    26 Compare Mat_27:32; Mar_15:21; Joh_19:17. 26 Tradition has sought to surround the cross with a false glamour by making it cross-shaped, instead of a single upright stake. The word "cross" itself has...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FATHER, etc.] (peculiar to Lk). This 'word' is a quotation from Psalms 31:5. SPIRIT] i.e. Christ's human spirit. 'Spirit' and 'soul' are identical in the Gospels. Christ is said to have both (Matthew...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TRIAL BEFORE PILATE AND HEROD. THE CRUCIFIXION AND BURIAL 1-5. The trial before Pilate begins (Matthew 27:1; Matthew 27:11; Mark 15:1; John 18:2

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CRUCIFIXION AND DEATH OF JESUS (Matthew 27:33; Mark 15:23; John 19:18). See on Mt and Jn. Peculiar to Lk are three of the Seven Words from the Cross, and the incident of the Converted Thief....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 23 PILATE EXAMINES JESUS 23:1-7 V1 The whole group rose up and took Jesus to Pilate. V2 They began to accuse him. ‘We caught this man because he is c...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (44-46) AND IT WAS ABOUT THE SIXTH HOUR. — See Notes on Matthew 27:45; Mark 15:33. We can only conjecturally account for the omission of the “ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI,” so prominent in the other two...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND WHEN JESUS HAD CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, HE SAID.... — Better. _And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and said_... The English text emphasises too strongly the distinctness of the act, possibly with t...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SAVING OTHERS BY NOT SAVING HIMSELF Luke 23:35-46 Rulers, soldiers, and malefactors all heaped their insults on the dying Lord, little realizing that they were all included in the great love which wa...

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

    This is the story of the Cross, and, as in dealing with other Gospels, it is best read in reverent quietness and meditation. We see all the forces of evil as represented in the Jewish priests and in P...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    JESUS EXPIRES AMID THE DARKNESS Luke 23:44-46; John 19:28-30; Mark 15:33-37; Matthew 27:45-50. “ And from the s

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    CHAPTER 28 CONCURRENT MIRACLES Luke 23:45-49; Mark 15:38-41; Matthew 27:51-56. Our Lord has already expired on the cross, and now we proceed to consider the concurrent miracles so overwhelmingly atte

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

    We divide this piece into three parts: the way to the cross (Luke 23:26-32); the crucifixion (Luke 23:33-38); the time passed on the cross (39-46)....

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

    3 _d. Luke 23:39-46_. Matthew and Mark ascribe the same jestings to the _two_ thieves. The partisans of harmony at any price think that they both began with blasphemy, and that one of them afterwards...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. (45) And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. (46) And when Jesus...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE LAST WORD FROM THE CROSS_ ‘Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit.’ Luke 23:46 Do those we have lost still live? The last word of Jesus gives us the answer, an answer which we cannot mista...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Gentiles, however, are not presented in this Gospel as being voluntarily guilty. We see, no doubt, an indifference which is flagrant injustice in a case like this, and an insolence which nothing c...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WHEN JESUS HAD CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE,.... A second time; for at the first loud cry, he uttered these words, "Eli, Eli, lama, sabachthani"; and at the second what follows; see Matthew 27:46. Mat...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. Ver. 46. See Matthew 27:50 ....

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

    _Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit_ The Father receives the spirit of Jesus; Jesus himself the spirits of the faithful. See on Matthew 27:50. _When the centurion_ The Roman officer, who stood...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    The crucifixion. Matthew 27:33-56....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND WHEN JESUS HAD CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, HE SAID, FATHER, INTO THY HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT; AND HAVING SAID THUS, HE GAVE UP THE GHOST....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The death of Jesus:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    DELIVERED TO PONTIUS PILATE (vs.1-5) It was still early morning when the Lord Jesus was brought to the judgment hall of Pilate, the Roman governor (John 18:28), for the Jews were determined to quick...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    44-49 We have here the death of Christ magnified by the wonders that attended it, and his death explained by the words with which he breathed out his soul. He was willing to offer himself. Let us seek...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 23:34...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Dialogue of Justin For when Christ was giving up His spirit on the cross, He said, `Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit, '[408] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV , laboured to present to us...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Luke 23:46 And G2532 Jesus G2424 out G5455 (G5660) loud G3173 voice G5456 said G2036 (G5627) Father...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FINAL HOURS (23:44-49). It was now half way through the day, and for Jesus the worst was yet to come. For now He entered into such an experience as was to tear at His very soul. But Luke passes it...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” ' Luke omits Jesus' citation of Psalms 22:1, possibly because he does not feel that his Gentile readers will...

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

    Luke 23:44-46. THE CLOSING SCENE. See on Matthew 27:45-53; Mark 15:33-38. Luke's account is very brief, passing over the tender scene narrated in...

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

    Among the peculiarities of Luke's description we notice particularly the scene on the way to Calvary (Luke 23:27-32), and the story of the penitent robber (Luke 23:39-43). Both of these accord with th...

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

    Luke 23:46. CRYING WITH A LOUD VOICE. Matthew and Mark mention this without giving the words. FATHER, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. Our Lord dies with Scriptural words on His lips (Psalms 31:5)....

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    FATHER (Πατερ). Jesus dies with the words of Psalms 31:5 on his lips.GAVE UP THE GHOST (εξεπνευσεν). First aorist active indicative of εκπνεω, to breathe out, to expire, old word, but in the N.T....

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    GAVE UP (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 27:50). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Luke 23:46 These words have two aspects, and the first of these is towards our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. I. In the one week of the year in which we commemorate His Cross and Passion, it ought to be...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    We have often read the story of our Saviour's sufferings; but we cannot read it too often. Let us, therefore, once again repair to «the place which is called Calvary.» As we just now sang, «Come, let...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Luke 23:1 , _And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. And they began to accuse him saying, We found this_ Put in what word you like villains scoundrel our translators could not...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Luke 23:27. _And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him._ Their best Friend, the Healer of their sick, the Lover of their children, was about...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Luke 23:27. And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep fo...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jesus before Pilate and Herod. Barabbas released and Jesus condemned. The cricifixion and entombment. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pilate, Caesar, Herod, Barabbas, Simon, two thieves, Joseph. CONCLUS...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Luke 23:12. _The same day Pilate and Herod were made friends._ This occurrence is quoted in Acts 4:27, as an accomplishment of the prophecy in the second psalm. Luke 23:22. He said to them the third t...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    THE OTHER ONE, HOWEVER. This one has a "change of heart," and rebukes his fellow criminal. Alford (Greek Testament) mentions that some feel this penitent criminal was a disciple of Christ. If he was,...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    THEY TOOK JESUS AWAY. The most complete notes on the Crucifixion are found in Matthew 27:32-56. A LARGE CROWD OF PEOPLE FOLLOWED HIM. This shows that Jesus had a lot of sympathizers in Jerusalem. WOME...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit_ THAT DYING BELIEVERS ARE BOTH WARRANTED, AND ENCOURAGED, BY CHRIST’S EXAMPLE, BELIEVINGLY TO COMMEND THEIR SOULS INTO THE HANDS OF GOD I. WHAT IS IMPLIED...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 23:46 I COMMIT MY SPIRIT! Jesus’ own human spirit returned to the presence of God the Father (see note on John 19:30; also see...

  • The Gospels Compared

    Jesus dies on the cross Matthew 27:45-56; Mark 15:33-41; Luke 23:44-49; John 19:28-37;...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 23 VER. 39. _And one of the malefactors which were hanged_ (this one, according to tradition, hung on the left hand of Christ) _railed_ _on Him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us....

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit._ The Arabic has _pono_, Tertullian _depono_ (_cont. Prax. cap._ xxv.). The Hebrew word Hiphid means the same as our "commend." " _My_ _Spirit_." S. Athanas...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 23:32.—MALEFACTORS.—Called by St. Matthew and St. Mark “robbers.” Probably they were insurgents against Roman rule, who had been more like brigands than patriots. Luke 23:33. CA...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LUKE 23:1 _The trial before Pilate_:_ First examination._ LUKE 23:1 AND THE WHOLE MULTITUDE OF THEM AROSE, AND LED HIM UNTO PILATE. The Sanhedrin had now formally condemned Jesus to dea...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And the whole multitude of them arose, and they led him unto Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and sayi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 2:23; Acts 7:59; John 19:30; Mark 15:34; Mark 15:37;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    I commend [π α ρ α τ ι θ ε μ α ι]. See on ch. Luke 9:16. Gave up the ghost [ε ξ ε π ν ε υ σ ε ν]. Lit., breathed out (his life). Wyc., sent out the spirit. See on Matthew 27:50. 47 - 49. Compare Matt...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE CRUCIFIXION Luke 23:33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We feel it would not be fitting for us to study the scenes of the Cross itself, without spending a few moments in considering Christ's Gethsemane exper...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Father, into thy hands — The Father receives the Spirit of Jesus: Jesus himself the spirits of the faithful....

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