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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Luke 11:49

Luke 11:49. Therefore also said the wisdom of God. Comp. Matthew 23:34, where ‘I' is used; so that Christ represents Himself as ‘the wisdom of God.' This seems to be a quotation, but there is no passage in the Old Testament which fully corresponds, and the form is an unusual one for such a quotation. Explanations: (1) An amplification of 2 Chronicles 24:19, made by Him who is ‘the wisdom of God.' That passage speaks of the sending of prophets and their rejection, and is connected with the dying words of Zechariah: ‘The Lord look upon it and require it.' This is on the whole preferable. (2) Our Lord refers to His own words, as spoken on some former occasion. This is possible, but leaves us in uncertainty. (3) A quotation from some unknown Jewish book. This is out of the question. (4) The notion that Luke is quoting Matthew 23:34, etc., and inserts: ‘the wisdom of God,' because in his day this passage was thus spoken of in the church, is a mere assumption.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 49. _THE WISDOM OF GOD_] These seem to be Luke's words, and to mean that Jesus, _the wisdom of God_, (as he is called, 1 Corinthians 1:24,) added the words which follow here, on that occasion:...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    See the notes at Matthew 23:29. Luke 11:49 THE WISDOM OF GOD - By the “wisdom of God,” here, is undoubtedly meant the Saviour himself. What he immediately says is not written in the Old Testament. Je...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The Prayer Given to the Disciples (Luke 11:1 .)_ 2. The Friend at Midnight. (Luke 11:5) 3. Encouragement to Pray. (Luke 11:11) 4. A Demon Cast Out and the Blasphemous Accusation. ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    CONDEMNATION OF PHARISEES AND SCRIBES._ Cf._ (though the arrangement is different) Matthew 23*, where the Jerusalem setting is more suitable (perhaps Lk. wishes to make the Jerusalem discourses end wi...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE WISDOM OF GOD. This is Christ Himself; for in Matthew 23:34 this is exactly what He did say. It is not. quotation from the O.T., or any apocryphal book.. will send, &c. This He did, in and during...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the wisdom of God_ There is an allusion to 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 (comp, 2 Chronicles 36:14-21), but as the exact passage nowhere occurs in the O. T. some suppose that our Lord quotes (1) from a _lost...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    49–51. These verses were arbitrarily omitted by Marcion....

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 45. Then answered one of the Lawyers, and said to him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also. 46. And he said, Woe to you also, you Lawyers! for you lade men with burdens grievous to be borne,...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEREFORE ALSO SAID THE WISDOM OF GOD,— If, as some suppose, Christ himself here spoke of that divine perfection which we call the _wisdom of God,_ it is difficult to make any tolerable sense of this...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ἡ σοφία τ. Θ.: _vide_ notes on Matthew 23:34. ἀποστόλους, apostles, instead of wise men and scribes in Mt. ἐκδιώξουσιν, they shall drive out (of the land), in place of Mt.'s σταυρώσετε....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Castigation of the scribes present_; severe, but justified by having been invited....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and [some] of them they shall slay and (l) persecute: (l) They will so vex them and trouble them, that at length they wi...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _The wisdom of God said. In St. Matthew it is, Behold I send to you prophets and wise men; and in this passage of St. Luke, the wisdom of God saith, I will send, &c.: thus is Christ truly the wisdom o...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

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

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

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEREFORE ALSO SAID THE WISDOM OF GOD,..... The Syriac version only reads "wisdom"; by which seems to be meant not the perfection of God's wisdom: though it is usual with the Jews to represent the div...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and _some_ of them they shall slay and persecute: Ver. 49. _Therefore also said the wisdom of God_] That is, Christ hims...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    THE WISDOM OF GOD; as manifested in the words and works of Christ....

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    Sin and doom of the Pharisees. Matthew 23:4; Matthew 23:29-36....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THEREFORE ALSO SAID THE WISDOM OF GOD, I WILL SEND THEM PROPHETS AND APOSTLES, AND SOME OF THEM THEY SHALL SLAY AND PERSECUTE;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The last woe and its effect:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    VALUABLE INSTRUCTION AS TO PRAYER (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended in Mary). His...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    37-54 We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God ha...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 11:47...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Luke 11:49 Therefore G1223 G5124 wisdom G4678 God G2316 also G2532 said G2036 (G5627) send G649 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Therefore also said the wisdom of God, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute', that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundati...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WOEFUL STATE OF THOSE WHOSE LIGHT IS DARKNESS, AND WHO THEREFORE COME UNDER HIS WOES (11:37-52). But sadly there are those whose eyes turn away from the light. Instead of their eyes being fixed on...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    THE WISDOM OF GOD (η σοφια του θεου). In Matthew 23:34 Jesus uses "I send" (εγω αποστελλω) without this phrase "the wisdom of God." There is no book to which it can refer. Jesus is the wisdom of God...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Luke 11:14. _And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils thr...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jesus' doctrine of prayer. Jesus charged with casting out demons by Beelzebub, and His answer. Woes denounced upon the Pharisees and lawyers. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Jonah, Sol...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Luke 11:1. _Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples._ The disciples of John were eminent for fasting and prayer; and though the prayers of the jews were good, yet they were not exact...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    SO THE LORD SAID TO HIM. Jesus may have said this more than once. See notes on a similar lesson in Matthew 23:1-36; Luke 11:41 is only given by Luke. The Jewish leaders hated everybody who was not a p...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 11:47 The unusual expression WISDOM OF GOD probably means “God in his wisdom” or “God, speaking to express his wisdom.” FROM THE BLOOD OF ABEL ...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 11 VER. 2. _When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name_. S. Matthew adds this prayer to the sermon on the mount, whilst S. Luke places it at a later period. Either...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 11:37. BESOUGHT.—Simply, “asked” (R.V.). TO DINE.—Rather, “that He would _breakfast_ with him.” The word used means a noon-day meal = our late breakfast or luncheon. Luke 11:38....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LUKE 11:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the_ _subject of prayer. _Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of _time _or _place _enables us to fix the scene or date with any...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Tonight, chapter 11 in the gospel according to Luke. Again, as Luke is pointing out the human side of Jesus, though He was God, He became man. He is the God-man. He is divine, and yet, He is human. Th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 11:24; 2 Corinthians 11:25; Acts 1:8;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The wisdom of God, agreeably to this, hath said — In many places of Scripture, though not in these very words, I will send them prophets — Chiefly under the Old Testament: and apostles — Under the New...

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