Vincent's Word Studies in the NT
Luke 11:35
The light that is in thee. Lit., the light, that, namely, which is in thee; thus emphasizing the inward light. See on Matthew 6:23.
The light that is in thee. Lit., the light, that, namely, which is in thee; thus emphasizing the inward light. See on Matthew 6:23.
These verses are found in Matthew, but in a different connection. See the notes at Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22....
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. ...
SAYINGS ABOUT LIGHT. With Luke 11:33; cf. Luke 8:16 (= Mark 4:21; Matthew 5:15). With L
No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a bushel, but upon a lamp-stand, so that those who come in may see the light. The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is sound your whole...
TEACH US TO PRAY (Luke 11:1-4)...
TAKE HEED. Seq. Greek. _skopeo._ Occurs only here Romans 16:17; 2 Corinthians 4:18; Galatians 1:6; Galatians 1:1.
_that the light which is in thee be not darkness_ It becomes so when we are -wise in our own conceit" (Proverbs 16:12) which makes us think a way right when it is the way of death (Proverbs 16:25), an...
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...
ΜῊ ΤῸ ΦΩ͂Σ ΤῸ ἘΝ ΣΟῚ ΣΚΌΤΟΣ ἘΣΤΊΝ. The _indicative_ following σκόπει μὴ shews the apprehension that such _is_ the case. Hermann on Soph. _Aj._ 272 says “μὴ ἐστί _verentis_ quidem est ne quid nunc sit,...
THE INWARD LIGHT...
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...
Ver 33. No man, when he has lighted a candle, puts it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. 34. The light of the body is the eye:...
_THE PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY BLESSED -- LUKE 11:27-36:_ People talked to Jesus about who was really blessed. Jesus got right to the point and said, "Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep...
ΣΚΌΠΕΙ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΣΚΟΠΈΩ (G4648) видеть, смотреть, наблюдать, ΜΉ (G3361) ли. Здесь используется в косвенном вопросе (RG, 1045)....
WHEN THINE EYE IS SINGLE, &C.— That they might understand his parable, and be excited to make a proper improvement of the noble faculty, or power, whose use he had been describing, our Lord puts them...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Phenomenalism (Luke 11:29-36) 29 When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign shall be given to i...
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. See the notes at Matthew 12:22. Verse 14-20 For the expo...
27 This is a delicate yet decisive thrust at the slightest tendency toward Mariolatry. Mary was indeed most blessed to be chosen to bear such a Son, but it was a physical relationship, such as He sust...
THE LORD'S PRAYER. THE SIGN OF JONAH 1-4. The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9). See on Mt. If the Lord's Prayer was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion. His version, however (as...
INWARD LIGHT AND DARKNESS. Christ is still rebuking those who refused to believe in Him without a special sign from heaven. In St. Matthew these vv. form part of the Sermon on the Mount....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT PRAYER 11:1-13 1 THE PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT 11:1-4 V1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of...
TAKE HEED THEREFORE THAT THE LIGHT... — Better, _See to it whether the light that is in thee be darkness._ This takes the place in St. Luke’s report of St. Matthew’s (Luke 6:23) “If the light that is...
A counsel to take care lest the light in us become darkness, answering to that suggested in the parable: see that the lamp be properly placed....
Luke 11:33-36 contain parabolic utterances concerning the placing of a light, and the conditions under which the eye sees the light....
DARK AND FOUL WITHIN Luke 11:33-44 “The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,” Proverbs 20:27. How many unlit candles there are! Will you not ask whether Christ has ever kindled you with His divi...
Watching the Master at prayer, His disciples were inspired with a desire to pray, and requested that they be taught. He responded to them in a fourfold statement. First, He gave them a model. Then He...
CHAPTER 24 THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES SEEK A SIGN FROM HEAVEN Matthew 12:38-45; Luke 11:16-36. “Then certain ones of the scribes and Pharisees responded, saying, Master, we wish to see a sign from The...
4 _th. Luke 11:29-36_. _The Second Discourse._ This is the answer of Jesus to the demand which was addressed to Him to work a miracle proceeding from heaven (Luke 11:16). Strauss does not think that J...
7. _The Blasphemy of the Pharisees: Luke 11:14-36_. We have already observed (see on Luke 6:11) how remarkably coincident in time are the accusations called forth in Galilee by the healings on the Sab...
(29) And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. (30) For a...
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...
The prayer which He taught His disciples (chapter 11) has respect also to the position into which they came before the gift of the Holy Ghost. [32] Jesus Himself prayed, as the dependent man on earth....
TAKE HEED THEREFORE,.... By attending to the light of the Gospel, shining in the ministration of it, and do not neglect and despise it: THAT THE LIGHT WHICH IS IN THEE BE NOT DARKNESS; lest being giv...
Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. Ver. 35-36. SeeMatthew 6:22,23...
_No man, when he hath lighted a candle_ The meaning is, God gives you this gospel-light, that ye may repent. Let your eye be singly fixed on him, aim only at pleasing God; and while ye do this, your w...
Candle under a bushel. Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22-23....
Parabolic warnings:...
TAKE HEED THEREFORE THAT THE LIGHT WHICH IS IN THEE BE NOT DARKNESS....
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...
29-36 Christ promised that there should be one sign more given, even the sign of Jonah the prophet; which in Matthew is explained, as meaning the resurrection of Christ; and he warned them to improve...
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Luke 11:35 Therefore G3767 heed G4648 (G5720) light G5457 which G3588 is G2076 (G5748) in G1722 you...
“Look therefore whether the light that is in you is not darkness.” Thus all must consider themselves carefully, for sadly some may still think that their darkness is light (they have never known any o...
Luke 11:33-36. The thoughts of these verses occur in Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22-23. Here the connection is different. They wished a sign; a greater sign than Jonah is granted them, but to perceive it...
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...
CHRONOLOGY. The miracle and discourses here recorded are probably identical with those narrated in Matthew 12:22-45; Mark 3:23-30. Some have supposed that Luke gives the exact position, and not the ot...
WHETHER NOT (μη). This use of μη in an indirect question is good Greek (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 1045). It is a pitiful situation if the very light is darkness. This happens when the eye of the sou...
Luke 11:35 I. Through the avenues of conscience, which is to the soul what the eye is to the body, communications from God are always pouring in. In nature, in providence, but still more by His Word,...
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...
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...
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...
AND THEN HIDES IT. See notes on Matthew 5:15; Matthew 6:22-23. IF, THEN, YOUR WHOLE BODY IS FULL OF LIGHT. Symbolic of the Christian's influence. See Matthew 5:16. Also symbolic of eternal glory ...
_The light of the body is the eye_ THE SINGLE EYE The eye is evil when the vision is incorrect, double; is single when it lays hold of one object with clearness and firmness. Shut the eye, or if th...
Jesus teaches about being the light of the world Matthew 5:14-16; Mark 4:21-22; Luke 8:16-18; Luke 11:33-36;...
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...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 11:14. CASTING OUT A DEVIL.—There seems to be little doubt that this miracle is the same as that in Matthew 12:22, as wrought apparently in Galilee. In St. Matthew’s Gospel there...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 1:19; 1 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Peter 1:9; 2 Peter 2:18;...