Are they few that be saved? Jesus does not directly reply to the question, but warns His hearers of the difficulty of obtaining salvation, of the danger of delaying repentance, and of the probable rejection of many unbelieving descendants of Abraham, and of the salvation of many believing Gentiles. There are close parallels in St. Matthew.
23, 24. See on Matthew 7:13; Matthew 7:14. Gate] i.e. 'door.'
Verse Luke 13:22. _JOURNEYING TOWARD JERUSALEM._] Luke represents all that is said, from Luke 9:51, as having been done and spoken while Christ was on his last journey to Jerusalem. Luke 9:51,...
CITIES AND VILLAGES - Chiefly of Galilee, and those which were between Galilee and Jerusalem. TEACHING AND JOURNEYING - This evinces the diligence of our Lord. Though on a journey, yet he remembered h...
CHAPTER 13 __ 1. The Necessity of Repentance. (Luke 13:1 .) 2. The Barren Fig Tree. (Luke 13:6) 3. The Healing of a Daughter of Abraham. (Luke 13:10) 4. Parable of the Mustard Seed. ...
THE NARROW ENTRANCE INTO LIFE. Parallels are found in Matthew 7:13 f., Matthew 25:11 f., Matthew 7:21; Matthew 8:11 f;...
Jesus continued to go through towns and villages, teaching and making his way to Jerusalem. "Lord, someone said to him, "are those who are to be saved few in number?" He said to them, "Keep on strivin...
SUFFERING AND SIN (Luke 13:1-5)...
THROUGH. Greek. _kata._ App-104. JOURNEYING. progressing. TOWARD. Greek. _eis_. App-104....
22-30. The Narrow Door. 22. _he went through the cities and villages_ Some see in this the starting-point of a separate journey. The expression is too vague on which to build. It may imply a fresh pr...
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...
THE NARROW DOOR...
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...
ΔΙΕΠΟΡΕΎΕΤΟ ΚΑΤᾺ ΠΌΛΕΙΣ ΚΑῚ ΚΏΜΑΣ. ‘_He was continuing His journey through the several cities and villages_.’ The κατὰ is distributive. Some see in this the starting-point of a separate journey. The e...
Ver 22. And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23. Then said one to him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said to them, 24. Strive to enter in...
_THE STRAIT GATE AND A MESSAGE FOR HEROD -- LUKE 13:22-35:_ We do not know who it was but someone asked Jesus, "Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?" Jesus told this person that they should...
ΔΙΕΠΟΡΕΎΕΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΔΙΑΠΟΡΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G1279) путешествовать через, пересекать. _Impf._ изображает длительное действие: "Он продолжил Свое путешествие" (Fitzmyer, 1024). ΚΑΤΆ (G2596) с...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Repentance is Difficult (Luke 13:22-30) 22 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23And some one said to him, Lord, wil...
And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. AND HE WENT THROUGH THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING AND JOURNEYING TOWARD JERUSALEM - on His final but cir...
57-59 Compare Mat_5:25-26; Pro_25:8. 1 There is a strong natural tendency to connect calamity with sin. Hardly any great disaster occurs but someone seeks to justify it on the ground that the victims...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 13 PEOPLE NEED TO TURN TO GOD 13:1-9 Two incidents and a *parable all teach that people need to turn to God. They must do this so that they avoid pun...
AND HE WENT THROUGH THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING, AND JOURNEYING. — Literally, _making a journey,_ as implying a circuit deliberately planned. This is apparently the continuation of the same jour...
_Are there few that be saved?_ This section is a mosaic of words found dispersed in the pages of Mt.: the _strait gate_ (Luke 13:24) in Matthew 7:14; _the pleading for admission_ (Luke 13:26-27) recal...
is a historical notice serving to recall the general situation indicated in Luke 9:51. So again in Luke 17:11. “Luke gives us to understand that it is always the same journey which goes on with incide...
THE PENALTY OF NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITY Luke 13:18-30 Notice here the inward movement and the outward effect of the gospel whether in the heart or in the world of men. The garden and the kitchen, the li...
Someone brought to our Lord an account of a happening which seemed to suggest that those who suffered catastrophe are proved to be "sinners above all." He directly contradicted that view, and in that...
(6) And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. (6) Against those who had rather err with many than go right with a few, and because of this through their...
ARE THE SAVED FEW? Luke 13:22-29. Our Savior answers the above question in the affirmative _i.e._, that the saved are few certainly a very alarming affirmation of our Infallible Lord. Shall you and I...
SECOND CYCLE: A NEW SERIES OF INCIDENTS IN THE JOURNEY, LUKE 13:22 TO LUKE 17:10. Ver. 22 serves as an introduction to this whole cycle. Jesus slowly continues His journey of evangelization (διεπορεύ...
And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the stra...
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...
Luke 13:22._Journeying towards Jerusalem. _It is uncertain whether Luke speaks only of one journey, or means that, while Christ walked throughout Judea, and visited each part of it for the purpose of...
Now, at this moment they reminded Him of a terrible judgment that had fallen upon some among them. He declares to them that neither this case, nor another which He recalls to their minds, is exception...
AND HE WENT THROUGH THE CITIES AND VILLAGES,.... Either of Galilee, or of Judea, or both; since he was upon his journey from Galilee, through Judea, to Jerusalem, as it follows: TEACHING AND JOURNEYI...
And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. Ver. 22. See Matthew 9:35; Mark 6:6 ....
_And he went through the cities and villages_, &c. Being on his way to Jordan from the northeast parts of Peræa; _teaching_ Wheresoever he came; _journeying toward Jerusalem_ To which he had now begun...
AND HE WENT THROUGH THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING, AND JOURNEYING TOWARD JERUSALEM....
Entering in at the strait gate:...
REPENT OR PERISH (vs.1-9) This chapter shows that righteousness by itself provides no hope for man, but presses upon us the solemn lesson of repentance. Thus it prepares the way for Chapter s 14 and...
18-22 Here is the progress of the gospel foretold in two parables, as in Luke 13:13. The kingdom of the Messiah is the kingdom of God. May grace grow in our hearts; may our faith and love grow exceed...
Still wherever we find our blessed Lord, we find him teaching, and that not by an exemplary life only, but by word of mouth. There are different opinions whether our Saviour was now journeying towards...
Luke 13:22 And G2532 went G1279 (G5711) through G2596 cities G4172 and G2532 villages G2968 teaching G1321 ...
‘And he went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and journeying on to Jerusalem.' Having established the principle Jesus then went out to put it into practise. He went through their citi...
TIME. We identify the journey here spoken of (Luke 13:22), with the last journey from Perea to Jerusalem, and accept the order of Luke in the following Chapter s as accurate. Some think that it is the...
Luke 13:22. THROUGH CITIES AND VILLAGES. The journey was not direct. TEACHING AND JOURNEYING INTO JERUSALEM. In this and the succeeding Chapter s (14-18). Specimens of His teaching are given....
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...
JOURNEYING ON UNTO JERUSALEM (πορειαν ποιουμενος εις Ιεροσολυμα). Making his way to Jerusalem. Note tenses here of continued action, and distributive use of κατα with cities and villages. This is t...
Luke 13:10. _And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath, And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise li...
Luke 13:6. _He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none._ It was a fig tree, a fruit-bearing tree by profess...
Luke 13:11. _And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him,...
Luke 13:18. _Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?_ For men learn much by resemblances, and the things which are seen are frequently helpful to us in...
CONTENTS: Parable of barren fig tree. Woman loosed from her infirmity. Parable of mustard seed and leaven. Jesus teaching on way to Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Galileans, Pilate, infirm woman, rule...
Luke 13:1. _There were some present at that season_ of the passover, _that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their_ _sacrifices._ Though this might be blood for blood, yet...
JESUS WENT THROUGH THE TOWNS AND VILLAGES. Probably in the area called Perea, east of the Jordan river. People often went this way from Galilee to Jerusalem, to detour around Samaria....
CHAPTER 13 VER. 1. _Whose blood Pilate mingled._ That is, whom while they were sacrificing in Mount Gerizim in Samaria, Pilate slew. He slew them that their blood might be mingled with the blood of th...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 13:22. WENT THROUGH CITIES, etc.—Not a direct journey. TO JERUSALEM.—The last journey through Peræa to Jerusalem. Luke 13:23. THEN SAID ONE.—Probably a Jew (see Luke 13:28); he...
EXPOSITION LUKE 13:1 _Signs of the times. The Lord continues his solemn warnings. Israel pictured in the parable of the barren fig tree._ LUKE 13:1 There were present at that season some that told...
Now there were present at that season (Luke 13:1) And, of course, now Luke may have gone on in a period of time. We don't know how much time elapsed between verse Luke 13:59 of chapter 12, and Luke 13...
Acts 10:38; Luke 4:43; Luke 4:44; Luke 9:51; Mark 10:32;...
Observe here, 1. The unwearied pains and diligence of our holy Lord in preaching and publishing the glad tidings of the gospel to lost sinners: HE WENT THROUGH THE CITIES AND VILLAGES TEACHING; not in...