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See the notes at Matthew 24:42.
SECOND WATCH - See the notes at Matthew 14:25....
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CHAPTER 12
_ 1. Warning Against Hypocrisy. (Luke 12:1)_
2. Encouragements. (Luke 12:4)
3. Warning Against Covetousness. (Luke 12:15)
4. Warning Against Anxiety. (Luke 12:22)
5. The Disciples Comf...
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THE FAITHFUL STEWARD (Matthew 24:45 *). Luke 12:39 is peculiar to Lk.
The answer to Peter's question is that the injunctions to watchfulness
are particularly applicable to the Twelve. This is emphasiz...
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THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
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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...
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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...
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VER 41. THEN PETER SAID TO HIM LORD, SPEAK YOU THIS PARABLE TO US, OR
EVEN TO ALL? 42. AND THE LORD SAID, WHO THEN IS THAT FAITHFUL AND WISE
STEWARD, WHOM HIS LORD SHALL MAKE RULER OVER HIS HOUSEHOLD,...
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ΠΟΙΟΎΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. (adj.)_, _см._ Luke 12:33....
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Action as Alertness (Luke 12:35-48)
35 Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, 36and be like men
who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage...
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Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so
doing.
BLESSED IS THAT SERVANT, WHOM HIS LORD WHEN HE COMETH SHALL FIND SO
DOING. OF A TRUTH ... HE WILL MAKE HIM RULER OVER ALL...
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39 As most of the houses in Palestine were built of sun-dried clay, or
adobe, a thief could best effect an entrance by digging his way
through the walls. They literally burrowed their way into a house...
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THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES. THE RICH FOOL
1-12. Jesus warns His followers against Pharisaic hypocrisy, and
exhorts them to be courageous in face of opposition. This speech is
not unsuitable to the c...
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LUKE’S GOOD NEWS
LUKE
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 12
JESUS WARNS AND ENCOURAGES HIS *DISCIPLES 12:1-12
1 WARNING ABOUT THE FALSE LIVES OF THE *PHARISEES 12:1-3
V1 Thousands of people had gathered. Th...
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(42-46) WHO THEN IS THAT FAITHFUL AND WISE STEWARD? — See Notes on
Matthew 24:45. Here the words come as an answer to Peter’s question.
The promise was spoken, not for the Twelve only, but for every
f...
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_A question by Peter and a reply_ (Matthew 24:45-51). Some look on
Peter's question as a literary device of the evangelist either to
connect his material (Weiss in Meyer; x. 29, xi. 45 cited as simila...
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EVER ON THE WATCH
Luke 12:35-48
The Lord leads our thoughts on to His advent, when He will call His
servants to account. The day may pass into the evening, the evening
into the night, and the night...
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Knowing that the enmity of the rulers against Him would proceed also
against His disciples, He told them not to be afraid of those who kill
the body, remembering ever their Father's care, as revealed...
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SOLICITUDE
Luke 12:22-31. This item of our Savior's discourse is so identical
with a paragraph in His Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6), that I
forbear quotation, the substantial repetition of the Grea...
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_The Parable of the Two Stewards._
The magnificence of the promise, Luke 12:37, has struck Peter; he asks
himself if such a recompense is intended for all the subjects of the
Messiah, or ought not rat...
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(32) Fear not little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to
give you the kingdom. (33) Sell that ye have, and give alms: provide
yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens t...
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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...
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_THE RESPONSIBILITY OF OPPORTUNITY_
‘Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so
doing.’
Luke 12:43
Our Lord is speaking of His second coming. Learn
I. THE IMPORTANCE OF D...
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chapter 12 puts the disciples into this place of testimony by the
power of the Holy Ghost, and with the world opposed to them, after the
Lord's departure. It is the word and the Holy Ghost, instead of...
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BLESSED IS THAT SERVANT,.... Who is faithful and wise, rules well, and
discharges his trust with integrity, and disposes of the provisions of
the house, in his hands, with great discretion and prudenc...
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Blessed _is_ that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so
doing.
Ver. 43. See Matthew 24:46,51 ....
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_Then Peter said, Lord, speakest thou this parable to us_ Who are thy
constant followers, to us who are ministers; _or even to all_ That
come to be taught by thee, to all the hearers, and, in them, to...
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The faithful servant. Matthew 24:42-51....
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Peter's question and the Lord's reply:...
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THE PEOPLE WARNED AGAINST FALSE LEADERS
(vs.1-12)
At a time when the crowd was extremely large, the Lord addressed His
disciples "first of all," warning them to beware of the leaven of the
Pharisees,...
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41-53 All are to take to themselves what Christ says in his word, and
to inquire concerning it. No one is left so ignorant as not to know
many things to be wrong which he does, and many things to be...
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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 12:41...
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Luke 12:43 Blessed G3107 that G1565 servant G1401 whom G3739 his G846
master G2962 find G2147 (G5692) so G3779 doing G4160 (G5723) comes
G2064 (G5631)
whom - Luke 12:37...
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THE PARABLE OF THE SERVANTS GOOD AND BAD (12:42-48).
In reply to Peter's question Jesus tells a parable about an individual
steward (although it expands to cover all level of servants at the
end). It...
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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...
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In this chapter, our Saviour dispels the fears of his disciples
concerning temporal things, and especially their fear of persecution
and their fear of want.
Luke 12:1. _In the mean time, when there w...
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CONTENTS: Jesus warns of leaven of the Pharisees. Parable of the rich
fool. Parable of the second coming. Parable of the steward and his
servants. Christ, the divider of men.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, disci...
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Luke 12:1. _There were gathered together an innumerable multitude of
people._ The Greek is myriads, or ten thousands of people.
Luke 12:5. _Power to cast into hell._ The Greek is Gehenna, as on
Isaia...
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BE READY FOR WHATEVER COMES. People in the East wore long robes, which
had to be tucked under their belts to get ready to travel. See notes
on Matthew 24:42-44. AND YOUR LAMPS LIT. See notes on Matthe...
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_That faithful and wise steward_
OUR STEWARDSHIP
I. HERE IS REPRESENTED A SITUATION OF WEIGHTY RESPONSIBILITY. A
stewardship. All responsibility on the part of man is owing to God.
1. And first, my...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:41 ARE YOU TELLING THIS PARABLE FOR US OR FOR
ALL? Jesus does not actually answer Peter’s question, which would
seem to indicate that the parable was meant for “everyone” to whom...
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JESUS TELLS ABOUT HIS RETURN MATTHEW 24:36-51; MARK 13:32-37; LUKE
21:34-36; LUKE 12:39-46; MATTHEW 24:36 But of that day and hour
knoweth no [_man_], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only....
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CHAPTER 12 VER. 1. _In the mean time when there were gathered together
an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek has "the myriads of the
multitude." A myriad contains exactly ten thousand, and is...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 12:41. THEN PETER SAID.—The high reward promised, rather than
the duty enjoined, was in Peter’s thoughts, and involved a certain
measure of danger against which Christ warns him....
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EXPOSITION
LUKE 12:1
_The Lord_,_ after leaving the Pharisee_'_s house_,_ speaks at great
length to a numerous crowd waiting for him_,_ addressing his words
principally to his own disciples. _The for...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 12.
We are dealing with the final month in the ministry of Jesus. He has
returned to Jerusalem. He will soon be leaving Jerusalem to go down to
th...
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Luke 12:37...
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Happy is that servant — God himself pronounces him wise, faithful,
happy! Yet we see, he might fall from all, and perish for ever....