Stood afar off
(ιστηκεισαν απο μακροθεν). Same verb as in verse Luke 23:35. Melancholy picture of the inner circle of the acquaintances of Jesus and the faithful band of women from Galilee.Seeing these things
(ορωσα ταυτα). And helpless either to prevent them or to understand them. They could only stand and look with blinded eyes.
See the notes at Matthew 27:52. Luke 23:48 THE THINGS WHICH WERE DONE - The earthquake, the darkness, and the sufferings of Jesus. SMOTE THEIR BREASTS - In token of alarm, fear, and anguish. They sa...
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...
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....
TRIAL BEFORE PILATE AND SILENCE BEFORE HEROD (Luke 23:1-12)...
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...
AND. But. Marking the contrast between the people and the women. HIS ACQUAINTANCE. thosewho knew (App-132.) Him, FOLLOWED. followed with. GALILEE. See App-169. STOOD. continued standing. The crowd...
_And all his acquaintance_ Rather, But. Peculiar to St Luke. Comp. Luke 2:44. _stood afar of beholding these things_ The word used is not _theo-rountes_, as in Luke 23:35. There is, perhaps, in the "a...
ΕἹΣΤΉΚΕΙΣΑΝ ΔΈ. The multitudes began to return (ὑπέστρεφον), but the few who loved Him stayed on the spot, though they dared not to approach very near. ΠΆΝΤΕΣ ΟἹ ΓΝΩΣΤΟῚ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι. Peculiar to St Luke....
DARKNESS. THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE RENT. THE END. REMORSE OF THE SPECTATORS...
VER 47. NOW WHEN THE CENTURION SAW WHAT WAS DONE, HE GLORIFIED GOD, SAYING, CERTAINLY THIS WAS A RIGHTEOUS MAN. 48. AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAME TOGETHER TO THAT SIGHT, BEHOLDING THE THINGS WHICH WERE...
ΕΊΣΤΉΚΕΙΣΑΝPLPERF. _ind. act., см._ Luke 23:10. ΓΝΩΣΤΌΣ (G1110) известный. Это относится скорее к друзьям, чем к родственникам Иисуса (Marshall), ΣΥΝΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΟΫΣΑΙ _praes. act. part. (adj.) пот. fem....
AND ALL HIS ACQUAINTANCE, AND THE WOMEN, &C.— Who these _acquaintance_ were, we learn from Matthew 27:55; Matthew 27:66 and Mark 15:40. The three evangelists agree in affirming that these _women_ stoo...
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...
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....
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...
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
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....
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...
ALL HIS ACQUAINTANCE. — This is the only passage in which the word is used. St. Luke apparently employs it as intermediate between the spectators and the avowed disciples. Such may have been Simon, or...
(47-49) NOW WHEN THE CENTURION SAW WHAT WAS DONE... — See Notes on Matthew 27:54; Mark 15:40. The phrase “glorified God” is, as has been noticed already (Luke 5:25), specially characteristic of St. Lu...
οἱ γνωστοὶ, His acquaintances, Galileans mostly, who stood till the end, but far away. Mt. and Mk. do not mention this. No word of the eleven. καὶ γυναῖκες : warm-hearted Galileans they too, and _wome...
_After crucifixion_ (Matthew 27:45-56; Mark 15:33-41)....
FAITH FROM, UNEXPECTED QUARTERS Luke 23:47-56 God has His agents everywhere. They are not known to us, but are well known to Him, and one word from Him will bring them and their resources to His hel...
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...
(16) And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things. (16) Christ gathers together and defends his little flock in the midst of the torm...
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
THIRD CYCLE: CLOSE OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE PASSION, LUKE 23:47-56. Vers. 47-49. These verses describe the immediate effects of our Lord's death, first on the Roman centurion (Luke 23:47), then on the p...
"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...
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...
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...
AND ALL HIS ACQUAINTANCE,.... That were related to him in a natural, or in a spiritual sense, or both, as his own mother, and beloved disciple John, who were both present, John 19:26 or those that wer...
And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things. Ver. 49. See Matthew 27:55 ....
_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...
The crucifixion. Matthew 27:33-56....
The death of Jesus:...
AND ALL HIS ACQUAINTANCE, AND THE WOMEN THAT FOLLOWED HIM FROM GALILEE, STOOD AFAR OFF, BEHOLDING THESE THINGS. It was the sixth hour according to Jewish, high noon according to modern reckoning, when...
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...
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...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 23:47...
Luke 23:49 But G1161 all G3956 His G846 acquaintances G1110 and G2532 women G1135 followed G4870 (G5660) Him...
‘And all his acquaintance, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood afar off, seeing these things.' In what contrast were the crowds with His disciples and the women who followed Him. T...
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...
Luke 23:49. AND ALL HIS ACQUAINTANCE. Peculiar to Luke. ‘All ‘now present in Jerusalem. The Eleven may be included, though John had led Mary home. Possibly they were not there, fearing to come, a view...
Luke 23:47-49. THE EFFECT ON THE SPECTATORS. See on Matthew 27:54-56; Mark 15:39-41. Luke inserts a new detail in Luke 23:48....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Certainly this was a righteous man_ THE CROSS, THE SOURCE OF COMPUNCTION Many reasons have been given to account for that providence of God which determined that the Cross should be the kind of dea...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 23:49 ALL HIS ACQUAINTANCES. Jesus’ relatives, friends, and disciples. The WOMEN (see Luke 8:1) are singled out because of their role
Jesus dies on the cross Matthew 27:45-56; Mark 15:33-41; Luke 23:44-49; John 19:28-37;...
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....
_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...
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...
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...
Job 19:13; John 19:21; Luke 23:27; Luke 23:55; Luke 8:2;...
That followed [σ υ ν α κ ο λ υ θ ο υ σ α ι]. Lit., followed with [σ υ ν]. So Rev. See on Matthew 27:55....