1. _The Call of the Disciples_: Luke 5:1-11. The companions of Jesus, in the preceding scene, have not yet been named by Luke (_they_ besought Him, Luke 4:38; she ministered unto _them_, Luke 4:39). According to Mark (Mark 1:29), they were Peter, Andrew, James, and John. These are the very four youn... [ Continue Reading ]
SECOND CYCLE: FROM THE CALL OF THE FIRST DISCIPLES TO THE CHOICE OF THE TWELVE, LUKE 5:1 TO LUKE 6:11. Up to this time Jesus has been preaching, accompanied by a few friends, but without forming about Him a circle of permanent disciples. As His work grows, He feels it necessary to give it a more de... [ Continue Reading ]
. _ The General Situation._ This description furnishes a perfect frame to the scene that follows. The words, καὶ αὐτός..., _He was also standing there_, indicate the inconvenient position in which He was placed by the crowd collected at this spot. The details in Luke 5:2 are intended to explain th... [ Continue Reading ]
_a.The Preparation._ In the imperative, _launch out_ (Luke 5:4), Jesus speaks solely to Peter, as director of the embarkation; the order, _let down_, is addressed to all. Peter, the head of the present fishing, will one day be head also of the mission. Not having taken anything during the night, t... [ Continue Reading ]
VERS. 10B, 11. _The Call._ In Matthew and Mark the call is addressed to the four disciples present; in Luke, in express terms, to Peter only. It results, doubtless, from what follows that the call of the other disciples was implied (comp. _launch out_, Luke 5:4), or that Jesus extended it to them,... [ Continue Reading ]
2. _The Lepers: Luke 5:12-14_. In Mark (Mark 1:40), as in Luke, the cure of the lepers took place during a preaching tour. Matthew connects this miracle with the Sermon on the Mount; it is as He comes down from the hill that Jesus meets and heals the leper (Luke 8:1 et seq.). This latter detail is... [ Continue Reading ]
1 _st. Luke 5:15-16_. While seeking to calm the excitement produced by His miracles, Jesus endeavoured also to preserve His energies from any spiritual deterioration by devoting part of His time to meditation and prayer. As Son of man, He had, in common with us all, to draw from God the strength He... [ Continue Reading ]
3. _The Paralytic: Luke 5:15-26_. 1 _st._ A general description of the state of the work, Luke 5:15-16; Luke 2 _d._ The cure of the paralytic, Luke 5:17-26.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 _d. Luke 5:17-19_. _The Arrival._ The completely Aramaean form of this preface (the καί before αὐτός, the form καὶ ἦσαν... οἳ ἦσαν, and especially the expression ἦν εἰς τὸ ἰᾶσθαι) proves that Luke's account is not borrowed from either of the two other Synoptics. This was one of those solemn hours... [ Continue Reading ]
VERS. 20 AND 21. _The Offence._ The expression _their faith_, in Luke, applies evidently to the perseverance of the sick man and his bearers, notwithstanding the obstacles they encountered; it is the same in Mark. In Matthew, who has not mentioned these obstacles, but who nevertheless employs the sa... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Miracle._ The miraculous work which is to follow is for a moment deferred. Jesus, without having heard the words of those about Him, understands their murmurs. His mind is, as it were, the mirror of their thoughts. The form of His reply is so striking, that the tradition has preserved it to the... [ Continue Reading ]
1 _st. Luke 5:27-28_. _The Call._ This fact occupies an important place in the development of the work of Jesus, not only as the complement of the call of the first disciples (Luke 5:1 et seq.), but especially as a continuation of the conflict already entered into with the old order of things. The _... [ Continue Reading ]
4. _The Call of Levi: Luke 5:27-39_. This section relates: 1 _st._ The call of Levi; 2 _d._ The feast which followed, with the discourse connected with it; 3 _d._ A double lesson arising out of a question about fasting.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 _d. Luke 5:29-32_. _The Feast._ According to Luke, the repast was spread in the house of Levi; the new disciple seeks to bring his old friends and Jesus together. It is his first missionary effort. Meyer sees a contradiction to Matthew here. Matthew says, “as Jesus sat at meat _in the house_,” an... [ Continue Reading ]
3 _d. Luke 5:33-39_. _Instruction concerning Fasting._... [ Continue Reading ]
In Luke they are the same parties, particularly the scribes, who continue the conversation, and who allege, in favour of the regular practice of fasting, the example of the disciples of John and of the Pharisees. The scribes express themselves in this manner, because they themselves, as scribes, bel... [ Continue Reading ]
VER. 36. _First Parable._ The T. R. says: “No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment.” The Alex. var. has this: “No man, _rending a piece from a new garment_, putteth it to an old garment.” In Matthew and Mark the new piece is taken from _any piece of cloth;_ in Luke, according to two... [ Continue Reading ]
Here we have the second part of the conversation. The expression ἔλεγε δὲ καί, _and He said also_, indicates its range. This expression, which occurs so frequently in Luke, always indicates the point at which Jesus, after having treated of the particular subject before Him, rises to a more general v... [ Continue Reading ]
VERS. 37, 38. _The Second Parable._ The figure is taken from the Oriental custom of preserving liquids in leathern bottles, made generally of goat-skins. “No one,” says M. Pierotti, “travels in Palestine without having a leathern bottle filled with water amongst his luggage. These bottles preserve t... [ Continue Reading ]
VER. 39. _The Third Parable._ The thorough opposition which Jesus has just established between the legal system and the evangelical system (first parable), then between the representatives of the one and those of the other (second parable), must not lead the organs of the new principles to treat tho... [ Continue Reading ]