Luke 7:18-23

1 st. Luke 7:18-23: The Question and the Reply.

Vers. 18 and 19. The Question.

Thus far, according to Holtzmann (pp. 135, 143), Luke had followed the first of his sources, the proto-Mark (A.); now he leaves it to make use of the second (of which the author of our Matthew has also availed himself), the Logia or discourses of Matthew (Λ.).

The expression: ὁ ἐρχόμενος, He who cometh, is taken from Malachi (Mal 3:1): “Behold, He cometh, saith the Lord.” The reading ἕτερον, which is certain in Matthew, is probable in Luke. This pronoun, taken in its strict meaning: a second, attributes to Jesus in any case the office of the Christ.