Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Luke 24:37
Supposed that they had seen a spirit. — More accurately, supposed that they were looking on... For the use of the word “spirit “in this sense, see Acts 23:8; Hebrews 12:23.
Supposed that they had seen a spirit. — More accurately, supposed that they were looking on... For the use of the word “spirit “in this sense, see Acts 23:8; Hebrews 12:23.
LUKE 24:37 pneu/ma Instead of pneu/ma, which is read by the overwhelming majority of witnesses, Codex Bezae reads fa,ntasma (“they thought they saw _a ghost_”), a reading which, according to Tertull...
Verse 37. _AND SUPPOSED THAT THEY HAD SEEN A SPIRIT._] But if there be no such thing as a _disembodied spirit_, would not our Lord have shown them their error? Instead of this, he confirms them in th...
JESUS STOOD IN THE MIDST OF THEM - This was when the apostles were assembled, and when they had closed the doors for fear of the Jews, John 20:19. It was this fact, as well as his sudden and unexpecte...
VII. HIS RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION CHAPTER 24 _ 1. The Resurrection. (Luke 24:1)_ 2. The Walk to Emmaus; the Appearance of the Risen Son of Man. (Luke 24:13) 3. The Appearance to the Eleven. (Luk...
THE APPEARANCE AT JERUSALEM. Lk. only, but _cf._ John 20:19, which is perhaps responsible for the insertion of Luke 24:36_ b_ and Luke 24:40, which are omitted by early and good authorities. The suppo...
THE WRONG PLACE TO LOOK (Luke 24:1-12)...
While they were still speaking, Jesus stood in the midst of them, and said to them, "Peace to you!" They were terrified and afraid, because they thought that they were seeing a spirit. He said to them...
SEEN. Greek. _theoreo._ App-133. SPIRIT. Greek. _pneuma._ App-101....
_terrified_ Literally, _"scared"_ that they had seen a spirit] Rather, THAT THEY WERE GAZING ON A SPIRIT. See on Luke 24:16....
ΠΤΟΗΘΈΝΤΕΣ. Literally, ‘_being scared_.’ ΠΝΕΥ͂ΜΑ ΘΕΩΡΕΙ͂Ν. ‘That they were gazing on a spirit.’ See Luke 24:16....
APPEARANCE OF JESUS TO THE APOSTLES...
VER 36. AND AS THEY THUS SPOKE, JESUS HIMSELF STOOD IN THE MIDST OF THEM, AND SAID TO THEM, PEACE BE TO YOU. 37. BUT THEY WERE TERRIFIED AND AFFRIGHTED, AND SUPPOSED THEY HAD SEEN A SPIRIT. 38. AND HE...
ΠΤΟΗΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. pass. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΠΤΟΈΩ (G4422) ужасать; _pass._ быть испуганным, тревожиться, ужасаться. ΓΕΝΌΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (сопутств.)_, _см._ Luke 24:4. ΈΔΌΚΟΥΝ _impf. in...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 The Eleven Confronted (Luke 24:33-43) 33And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them,...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Jesus-' Appearance to the Eleven Scripture_ Luke 24:36-49 And as they spake these things, he himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. 37 But t...
But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. BUT THEY WERE TERRIFIED AND AFFRIGHTED, AND SUPPOSED THAT THEY HAD SEEN A SPIRIT - the ghost of their dead Lord ra...
22 Compare 1-11 24 Compare 12 Joh_20:2-16 36-40 Compare Mar_16:14; Joh_20:19-23 39 The nature of our Lord's resurrection is nowhere more clearly revealed than in His efforts to convince the trembli...
THE RESURRECTION AND THE ASCENSION 1-11. Two angels appear to the women at the sepulchre (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:1 : cp. John 20:1). See on Mt and Jn....
APPEARANCE ON EASTER EVENING (John 20:19 : cp. Mark 16:14). See on Jn. At first sight there appears “to be no break in the narrative till the end of the Gospel, and the Ascension (Luke 24:51) seems to...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 24 THE *RESURRECTION 24:1-12 V1 Very early on the first day of the week, the women went to the *tomb. They carried the *spices that they had prepared...
CHAPTER 26 THE FIRST LORD'S DAY. THE Sabbath came and went over the grave of its Lord, and silence reigned in Joseph's garden, broken only by the mailed sentinels, who laughed and chatted by, the sea...
_Jesus appears to the eleven_ (_cf._ Mark 16:14; John 20:19-23)....
πνεῦμα, a spirit, _i.e._, a form recognisable as that of Jesus, but of Jesus not risen but come from the world of the dead disembodied or only with an apparent body; therefore they were terrified at t...
“PEACE BE UNTO YOU” Luke 24:36-43 Jesus Himself! We need nothing else when we are terrified and afraid. You may be fearing the consequences of your sin; fearing the approach of your enemy; fearing t...
No human eye saw the resurrection. The women came early, but only to find the stone rolled away. The record of those earliest experiences is full of touching beauty. Luke alone gives us the story of t...
The apostles thought they saw a Spirit, either good or bad, that had taken the form of Jesus, and was come to deceive them. For that they did not doubt spirits appeared, we have abundant proofs throug...
JESUS APPEARS TO THE APOSTLES SUNDAY NIGHT Luke 24:36-49; John 20:19-23. “ _Then_, _it being evening on that day_, _the first day of the week_, _and the doors being shut where the disciples were assem...
4. _The Appearance to the Apostles: Luke 24:33-43_. VERS. 33-43. The two travellers, immediately changing their intended route, return to Jerusalem, where they find the apostles assembled and full of...
"And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. (37) But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. (38) A...
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...
37._And they were terrified and affrighted. _John does not mention this terror; but as he also says that Christ showed his hands and sides to the disciples, we may conjecture that some circumstance ha...
But the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, had prepared everything for the burial of His Son, who had glorified Him by giving Himself up to death. He is with the rich in His death. Jos...
BUT THEY WERE TERRIFIED AND AFFRIGHTED,.... At the sight of him, and at his sudden appearance among them, without being heard, or seen before, and the doors shut and bolted; they could not tell how to...
But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. Ver. 37. _But they were terrified and affrighted_] _Tam meticulosa est incredulitas. Ut etiam tutissima et maxime tra...
_As they thus spake, Jesus stood in the midst of them_ While the disciples from Emmaus were giving their brethren an account of the Lord's appearing to them, and were probably offering arguments to co...
BUT THEY WERE TERRIFIED AND AFFRIGHTED, AND SUPPOSED THAT THEY HAD SEEN A SPIRIT....
THE LAST APPEARANCES OF CHRIST. Easter evening:...
HE IS NOT HERE. BUT RISEN (vs.1-12) Though these dear women came to the grave very early in the morning the first day of the week, they were too late. Mary of Bethany had anointed the Lord Jesus befo...
36-49 Jesus appeared in a miraculous manner, assuring the disciples of his peace, though they had so lately forsaken him, and promising spiritual peace with every blessing. Many troublesome thoughts...
Spirits sometimes (by God's permission or direction) assumed human shapes. They seeing a human shape, and not able on the sudden to conceive how a human body should come into the midst among them, wit...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; for a spirit hath not bones, as ye see me have."[1698] The History of Joseph the Carpenter And you shall declare to all...
Luke 24:37 But G1161 terrified G4422 (G5685) and G2532 frightened G1719 G1096 (G5637) supposed G1380 ...
‘But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed that they saw a ghost.' But Jesus' sudden appearance among them unnerved them. The problem was that this was not an hallucination, it was real. No...
JESUS APPEARS TO THE ELEVEN (24:36-43). We now come to the climax to which all that has gone before is building up, the appearance of the risen Jesus to His Apostles and His ascension into Heaven. Fo...
Luke 24:37. TERRIFIED AND AFFRIGHTED. John's account also implies this. It was now, not hopelessness, but terror in fear of the sudden appearance, at night too. If we bear in mind the command to go in...
We assume that Luke did not intend us to regard the whole chapter as the history of one day. Luke must explain Luke, and Acts 1:3 shows that the Evangelist places forty days between Luke 24:36 and Luk...
TERRIFIED (πτοηθεντες). First aorist passive participle of πτοεω, old verb and in the N.T. only here and Luke 21:9 which see.AFFRIGHTED (εμφοβο γενομενο). Late adjective from εν and φοβος (fear)....
Luke 24:13. _And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened...
Luke 24:1. Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the st...
Luke 24:1. Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the st...
Luke 24:32. And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? And they rose up the same hour, and returned t...
CONTENTS: Resurrection of Christ. Ministry of the risen Christ. His commission to evangelization. The ascension. CHARACTERS: Jesus, angels, Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary mother of James, Peter, discip...
Luke 24:21. _To-day is the third day._ Christ was to rise the third day, according to the scriptures, as he had intimated to the disciples. Matthew 20:19. See also Genesis 22:4;...
SUDDENLY THE LORD HIMSELF STOOD AMONG THEM. They were behind locked doors (John 20:19). This implies that Jesus could "pass through" a door or wall _in his resurrection body._ FEEL ME, AND YOU WILL SE...
_Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them_ THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE RISEN LORD TO THE ELEVEN I. THE CERTAINTY OF OUR LORD’S RESURRECTION. No fact in history is better attested. 1. Observe, that w...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 24:1 The Resurrection of Jesus. Luke’s Gospel began in the temple (Luke 1:5). After Jesus has risen from the dead, it will conclude in the temple as well ...
JESUS APPEARS TO THE DISCIPLES BEHIND LOCKED DOORS LUKE 24:36-43; JOHN 20:19-23; LUKE 24:36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace [_be_] unto you...
CHAPTER 24 VER. 1. _Now upon the first day of the week._ The first day after the Sabbath, the Lord's day, _i.e._ the day on which Christ rose from the dead. See S. Matthew 28:1....
_But they_... _supposed that they had seen a spirit._ Because of Jesus' sudden appearance in their midst although the doors were shut. Hence S. Ambrose says, "Although Peter believed in the resurrect...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 24:13. TWO OF THEM.—It is evident from Luke 24:33 that neither of them were apostles. The name of one of them is given in Luke 24:18, Cleopas (_i.e._, an abbreviation of Cleopatr...
EXPOSITION LUKE 24:1 THE RESURRECTION. All the four evangelists give an account of the Resurrection. None of the four, however, attempt to give a _history _of_ _it simply from a human point of sight...
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled aw...
1 Samuel 28:13; Acts 12:15; Job 4:14; Luke 16:30; Mark 6:49;...