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Verse Luke 15:12. _GIVE ME THE PORTION OF GOODS_] It may seem strange
that such a demand should be made, and that the parent should have
acceded to it, when he knew that it was to minister to his deb...
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AND THE YOUNGER OF THEM SAID - By this younger son we are to
understand the publicans and sinners to be represented. By the older,
the Pharisees and scribes.
GIVE ME THE PORTION - The part.
OF GOODS...
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CHAPTER 15
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1. The Murmuring Pharisees. (Luke 15:1)
2. The Parable of the Lost Sheep. (Luke 15:3)
3. The Parable of the Lost Coin. (Luke 15:8)
4. The Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Elder Br...
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LUKE 25. THREE PARABLES SHOWING GOD'S LOVE FOR THE LOST, AND HIS JOY
AT THEIR RESTORATION. The three parables in this chapter have no
definite note of time or place. An introduction is supplied from L...
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Jesus said, "There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them
said to his father, 'Father, give me the part of the estate which
falls to me.' So his father divided his living between them. Not ma...
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THE SHEPHERD'S JOY (Luke 15:1-7)...
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GIVE ME. Contrast "make me" (Luke 15:19).
THE PORTION. According to Jewish law, in the case of two sons the
elder took two-thirds, and the younger one-third of movable property,
at the father's death...
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_the portion of goods that falleth to me_ This would be one third
(Deuteronomy 21:17). The granting of this portion corresponds to the
natural gifts and blessings which God bestows on all alike, toget...
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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...
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ΤῸ ἘΠΙΒΆΛΛΟΝ ΜΈΡΟΣ ΤΗ͂Σ ΟΥ̓ΣΊΑΣ. This
would be one third (Deuteronomy 21:17). The granting of this portion
corresponds to the natural gifts and blessings which God bestows on
all alike, together with...
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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...
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THE SON LOST AND FOUND...
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Ver 11. And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12. And the younger
of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that
fails to me. And he divided to them his living. 13. And not m...
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AND THE YOUNGER OF THEM, &C.— Our Lord with great propriety makes
use of the youngest son as an example of a depraved mind, youth being
naturally impotent in self-government, not only through natural...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Lost Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-24)
11 And he said, There was a man who had two sons; 12and the younger of
them said to his father, -Father, give me the share of property t...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_The Parable of the Lost Son
Scripture_
Luke 15:11-32 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 and the
younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of thy
s...
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And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the
portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his
living.
AND THE YOUNGER OF THEM - as the more thoughtless, SAID TO...
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34-35 Compare Mat_5:13; Mar_9:50.
1 Compare Luk_7:34-35; Mat_9:10-13.
2 Our Lord's liking for sinners led the proud, self-righteous
Pharisees and scribes to utter a most precious truth, though they,...
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15:12 of. (d-32) 'what they had to live on,' as 'substance,' 1 John
3:17 ....
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GIVE ME THE PORTION] according to Jewish law, one-half of what the
eldest received (Deuteronomy 21:17). He _may_ have had a right to
demand his property before his father's death. 'We have here perhap...
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PARABLES OF THE LOST SHEEP, OF THEM LOST COIN, OF THE PRODIGAL SON
1-7. Parable of the Lost Sheep. See on Matthew 18:12. The first of a
series of three parables for the encouragement of penitents. It...
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THE PRODIGAL SON (peculiar to Lk). 'This parable, like the two
preceding, is intended to show what joy there is in heaven at the
conversion of sinners, and, therefore, how wrong the Pharisees were to...
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LUKE’S GOOD NEWS
LUKE
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 15
*PARABLES OF GOD’S LOVE 15:1-32
1 INTRODUCTION 15:1-2
Jesus told three *parables as an answer to the *Pharisees. They did
not approve of him beca...
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THE YOUNGER OF THEM SAID TO HIS FATHER. — In its bearing on the
individual life, the younger son represents the temper that is eager
for independence, self-asserting, energetic; the elder that which i...
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CHAPTER 21
LOST AND FOUND.
IN this chapter we see how the waves of influence, moving outward from
their Divine center, touch the outermost fringe of humanity, sending
the pulsations of new excitemen...
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_The case put_. δύο υἱου̇ς : two sons of different
dispositions here as in Matthew 21:28-31, but there is no further
connection between the two parables. There is no reason for regarding
Lk.'s parable...
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_The third parable_, rather an example than a parable illustrating by
an imaginary case the joy of recovering a _lost human being_. In this
case care is taken to describe what loss means in the sphere...
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ὁ νεώτερος, the younger, with a certain fitness made to play
the foolish part. The position of an elder son presents more motives
to steadiness. τὸ ἐπιβάλλον μέρος, the portion
_falling_ or _belonging...
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THE SON WHO “CAME TO HIMSELF” AND TO HIS FATHER
Luke 15:11-24
The pearl of parables! Too often we desire God's gifts apart from
Himself. _The far country_ is not far in actual distance, but in the
al...
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Our Lord's attitude toward the sinning multitudes aroused the
hostility of the Pharisees, and to them principally He uttered the
great discourse of this chapter, consisting of a threefold parable. In...
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It is ver probable, from this verse, that the children of the family,
when come of age, could demand of their parents the share of property
which would fall to their lot. For these parables suppose th...
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THE PRODIGAL SON
Luke 15:11-32. “ _But He said_, _A certain man had two sons. The
younger of them said to the father_, _Father_, _give me the portion of
the estate which falleth to me. And he divided...
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Jesus discontinues the interrogative form used in the two previous
cases: we have no more an argument; we have a narrative, a real
parable. The three persons composing the family represent God and H...
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_The Child lost and found._
This parable consists of two distinct descriptions, which form the
counterpart of one another, that of the younger son (Luke 15:11-24),
and that of the elder son (Luke 15:2...
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_The younger Son._
This first part of the parable embraces four representations
corresponding to the four phases of the converted sinner's life: 1
_st._ Sin (Luke 15:11-13); 2 _d._ Misery (Luke 15:14-...
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And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said
to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to
me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days aft...
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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...
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Luke 15:12._And the younger of them said to his father. _The parable
opens by describing a mark of wicked arrogance in the youth, which
appears in his being desirous to leave his father, and in thinki...
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Having thus unfolded the difference in character between the two
dispensations, and the circumstances of the transition from the one to
the other, the Lord turns (chapter 15) to higher principles the...
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AND THE YOUNGER OF THEM SAID TO HIS FATHER,.... God's chosen ones
among the publicans and sinners, are fitly signified by the younger
son, since man, as a sinner, is younger than man as righteous; and...
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And the younger of them said to _his_ father, Father, give me the
portion of goods that falleth _to me_. And he divided unto them _his_
living.
Ver. 12. _He divided unto them his living_] Gr. τον βιο...
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_And he said_, &c. Christ delivered next the parable of the lost or
prodigal son: “which of all his parables,” says Dr. Macknight,
“is the most delightful, not only as it enforces a doctrine
incompara...
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THE YOUNGER; he represents openly wicked persons, such as the
"publicans and sinners"; as the elder son does the Pharisees, "who
trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others."
H...
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THE PRODIGAL SON.
The reckless departure:...
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AND THE YOUNGER OF THEM, SAID TO HIS FATHER, FATHER, GIVE ME THE
PORTION OF GOODS THAT FALLETH TO ME. AND HE DIVIDED UNTO THEM HIS
LIVING....
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SEEKING THE LOST SHEEP
(vs.3-7)
Though discipleship to Christ is a wonderful privilege, yet man would
never choose a path of true discipleship if God did not seek him
first. In this chapter we see t...
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11-16 The parable of the prodigal son shows the nature of repentance,
and the Lord's readiness to welcome and bless all who return to him.
It fully sets forth the riches of gospel grace; and it has b...
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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 15:11...
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“And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the
portion of your substance which falls to me.' And he divided to them
his living.”
The younger son come to his father with the request...
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THE PARABLE OF THE LOVING FATHER, THE PRODIGAL SON AND THE
DISSATISFIED BROTHER (15:11-32).
When we come to the third parable there is a different emphasis in
that the emphasis is laid, not on the see...
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THREE PARABLES DEALING WITH THE SEEKING AND SAVING OF THE LOST
(15:1-32).
It will have been noted how great a concentration there is in this
section on preparing for the eternal future, and on the Ki...
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MEN MUST LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN IN HIS
GLORY (15:1-19:28).
Having established in Section 1 that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in
the city of David where He was proclaimed ‘Sav...
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Luke 15:12. IN THAT WHICH IS ANOTHER'S. Earthly wealth is held in
trust; the true riches are described as YOUR OWN. Wealth can never
form a part of our being, is never permanently in our possession; w...
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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...
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Luke 15:12. THE YOUNGER. Thus represented, because the more
light-minded, the more easily led astray.
GIVE ME THE PORTION OF THY SUBSTANCE, etc. The request could not have
been an unheard of one. The...
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THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON. ‘The crown and pearl' of all our
Lord's parables. It is an advance from the two which precede it. The
case of the sinner is represented as more aggravated: his guilt
g...
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THE PORTION
(το μερος). The Jewish law alloted one-half as much to the
younger son as to the elder, that is to say one-third of the estate
(Deuteronomy 21:17) at the death of the father. The father...
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This is a chapter that needs no explanation; it carries its key within
itself, and the experience of every child of God is the best
exposition of it. The three parables recorded here set forth the wor...
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Luke 15:1. _Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for
to hear him._
However sunken they might be, they knew their best Friend; they
recognized their Benefactor, so they gathered aroun...
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Luke 15:11. _And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger
of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that
falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not...
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We have read this chapter together many times; possibly some of us
have read it hundreds of times; yet whenever we read it, we always
find something fresh in it. It is ever bright and sparkling, full...
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CONTENTS: Parables of the lost sheep, lost coin and lost son.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pharisees, scribes.
CONCLUSION: God has a particular care over backsliding sinners (Isr.
in this case) and follows th...
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Luke 15:1. _Then drew near all the publicans and sinners to hear him._
The pharisees were so intoxicated with ideas of their own
righteousness, as to regard all such characters as excluded from the
co...
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THERE WAS A MAN WHO HAD TWO SONS. The parables of the Lost Sheep and
the Lost Coin symbolize Christ searching for the lost sinner. This
parable of the Lost Son shows the lost sinner _bringing himself_...
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_A certain man had two sons._
THE PRODIGAL AND HIS BROTHER
I. GOD’S TREATMENT OF THE PENITENT.
1. The alienation of the heart from God.
(1) Homelessness.
(2) Worldly happiness is unsatisfying. Hu...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 15:12 GIVE ME... PROPERTY... COMING TO ME. The
younger son does not want to wait for his father’s death to receive
his inheritance. He was probably a teenager, since he was unmarried...
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CHAPTER 15
Ver. 1. _Then drew near under Him all the publicans and sinners_.
_πάντες_, all, that is, many came together to hear Christ,
attracted by His sanctity and by the loving-kindness with which...
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_And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the
portion of goods that falleth to me._ The younger, _i.e._ sinners and
harlots. For youth is less restrained, more foolish, more inconst...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 15:11. A CERTAIN MAN.—Our heavenly Father, since Christ never
represents Himself thus. He always speaks of Himself as a Son, though
often as a possessor, or lord. TWO SONS.—_I.e....
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EXPOSITION
LUKE 15:1
The _Lord speaks his three parable-stories of the _"lost," _in which
he explains his reason for loving and receiving the sinful._
LUKE 15:1,...
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Then drew near to him all the publicans and sinners to hear him. And
the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners,
and eats with them (Luke 15:1-2).
Notice the four groups tha...
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Deuteronomy 21:16; Deuteronomy 21:17; Mark 12:44; Psalms 16:5;...
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The portion. According to the Jewish law of inheritance, if there were
but two sons, the elder would receive two portions, the younger the
third of all movable property. A man might, during his lifeti...
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CHRIST SEEKING TO SAVE
Luke 15:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The story of the prodigal son is one part of a threefold parable.
1. WE HAVE THE SHEPHERD SUFFERING AS HE SEEKS HIS SHEEP. The parable
describes...
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THE PRODIGAL SON
Luke 15:11
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The fifteenth chapter of Luke presents one parable with four
outstanding messages, embracing one supreme thought.
The supreme thought is Christ's answ...
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Give me the part of goods that falleth to me — See the root of all
sin! A desire of disposing of ourselves; of independency on God!...