Luke 23:45. The ran failing, i.e., its light. This was the cause of the darkness. It can scarcely imply that the sun had been visible during the darkness and at last itself disappeared.
And the vail of the temple, etc. Matthew, who is more detailed, speaks of this after our Lord's death. It probably took place at the moment He expired. Luke places it here, without implying that it occurred before that moment.
LUKE 23:45 tou/ h`li,ou evklipo,ntoj {B} The words kai. evskoti,sqh o` h[lioj (“the sun was darkened”) appear to be the easier reading, substituted by copyists for tou/ h`li,ou evklipo,ntoj [or evkle...
Verse 45. _THE SUN WAS DARKENED_] See an examination of the accounts of _Phlegon, Thallus_, and _Dionysius_, on Matthew 27:45. _THE VEIL - WAS RENT_] See Matthew 27:51....
See the notes at Matthew 27:45....
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...
THE VEIL. See Leviticus 4:6; Matthew 27:51. THE TEMPLE- the _Naos._ See note on Matthew 23:16....
_And the sun was darkened_ Instead of these words some MSS. (א, B, C, &c.) read "_the sun eclipsing_," or "_failing."_The reading seems only to be an attempt, and that a very unsuccessful one, to acco...
DARKNESS. THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE RENT. THE END. REMORSE OF THE SPECTATORS...
ΚΑῚ ἘΣΚΟΤΊΣΘΗ Ὁ ἭΛΙΟΣ. omitted in C2. τοῦ ἡλίου ἐκλείποντος B, ἐκλιπόντος אC1L. 45. ἘΣΚΟΤΊΣΘΗ Ὁ ἭΛΙΟΣ. Instead of these words some MSS. (אBC, &c.) read “_the sun eclipsing_,” or “_failing_.” The readi...
VER 44. 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...
ΕΚΛΙΠΌΝΤΟΣ _aor. act. part._ (причины) от ΕΚΛΕΊΠΩ (G1587) слабеть, уходить, меркнуть. _Gen. abs._ ΈΣΧΊΣΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΣΧΊΖΩ (G4977) рвать, разрывать. Богосл. _pass._ ΚΑΤΑΠΈΤΑΣΜΑ (G2665) зана...
THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS RENT— This being so high a day, it was very probable that Caiaphas himself might now be performing the solemn act of burning incense just before the veil; which if he did, i...
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...
23:45 temple (b-11) _ Naos_ . The shrine....
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...
(44-46) AND IT WAS ABOUT THE SIXTH HOUR. — See Notes on Matthew 27:45; Mark 15:33. We can only conjecturally account for the omission of the “ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI,” so prominent in the other two...
τοῦ ἡλίου ἐκλιπόντος : this phrase (a well-attested reading as against the T.R. ἐσκοτίσθη ὁ ἥ.) ought to mean the sun being eclipsed, an impossibility when the moon is full. If all that was meant was...
_After crucifixion_ (Matthew 27:45-56; Mark 15:33-41)....
SAVING OTHERS BY NOT SAVING HIMSELF Luke 23:35-46 Rulers, soldiers, and malefactors all heaped their insults on the dying Lord, little realizing that they were all included in the great love which wa...
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...
(14) And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. (14) Christ enters bravely and resolutely into the very darkness of death, and he does this so that he might overcome...
JESUS EXPIRES AMID THE DARKNESS Luke 23:44-46; John 19:28-30; Mark 15:33-37; Matthew 27:45-50. “ And from the s
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
3 _d. Luke 23:39-46_. Matthew and Mark ascribe the same jestings to the _two_ thieves. The partisans of harmony at any price think that they both began with blasphemy, and that one of them afterwards...
We divide this piece into three parts: the way to the cross (Luke 23:26-32); the crucifixion (Luke 23:33-38); the time passed on the cross (39-46)....
"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 THE SUN WAS DARKENED,.... There was an eclipse of it, which was preternatural, it being now full moon, and lasted three hours, and so total, as to darken the whole earth; and now was the prophecy...
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. Ver. 45. See Matthew 27:51; Mark 15:38 ....
_About the sixth hour_ Answering to twelve o'clock with us; _there was darkness_, &c. See on Matthew 27:45. The noon-tide darkness, covering the sun, obscured all the upper hemisphere. And the lower w...
The crucifixion. Matthew 27:33-56....
The death of Jesus:...
AND THE SUN WAS DARKENED, AND THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS RENT IN THE MIDST....
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 23:34...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV the veil of. the temple was rent"[1665]...
Luke 23:45 Then G2532 sun G2246 darkened G4654 (G5681) and G2532 veil G2665 temple G3485 torn G4977 ...
‘And the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.' And as a result of that time, the veil of the Temple was torn in two. There is a difference of opinion as to which veil is meant, the veil which sep...
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...
‘And it was now about the sixth hour, and a darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, the sun's light failing.' How remarkable it is that these three last hours of Jesus' final agony are...
THE SUN'S LIGHT FAILING (του ηλιου εκλειποντος). Genitive absolute of the present active participle of εκλειπω, an old verb, to leave out, omit, pass by, to fail, to die. The word was used also of t...
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...
Luke 23:27. _And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him._ Their best Friend, the Healer of their sick, the Lover of their children, was about...
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...
We have often read the story of our Saviour's sufferings; but we cannot read it too often. Let us, therefore, once again repair to «the place which is called Calvary.» As we just now sang, «Come, let...
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...
THE OTHER ONE, HOWEVER. This one has a "change of heart," and rebukes his fellow criminal. Alford (Greek Testament) mentions that some feel this penitent criminal was a disciple of Christ. If he was,...
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...
_The veil of the temple was rent_ THE RENT VEIL This miraculous event was plainly typical of several important things. 1. This was a type of the violent rending of Christ’s body on the cross. 2. T...
_There was a darkness over all the earth_ THE THREE HOURS’ DARKNESS What a call must that mid-day midnight have been to the careless sons of men! They knew not that the Son of God was among them; no...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 23:44 ABOUT THE SIXTH HOUR... UNTIL THE NINTH HOUR. Noon until 3:00 P.M. (compare Matthew 27:45;...
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...
2 Chronicles 3:14; Ephesians 2:14; Exodus 26:31; Hebrews 10:19;...
Veil. See on Matthew 27:51....
THE CRUCIFIXION Luke 23:33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We feel it would not be fitting for us to study the scenes of the Cross itself, without spending a few moments in considering Christ's Gethsemane exper...
Mark 15:38....