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L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:1-54

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 example awakened the exercise of at least one of His disciples to desire the Lord to them to pray, for the disciples remembered that John the Baptist taught his disciples to pray. The prayer the Lord taught (vs.2-4) corresponds to Matthew 6:9-13 and whether it is the same occasion or not, Luke... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Luke 11:1-54

DOCTRINE OF PRAYER We name this lesson after its chief topic, for as the Scofield Bible says, we have here “the central New Testament passage on prayer.” The disciples’ request (Luke 11:1 ) is answered first by a model prayer (Luke 11:2-4 ), then by a story or parable about prayer (Luke 11:5-10 ), and finally by setting before them the chief object of prayer (Luke 11:11-13 ). The “model” contains fundamental principles of prayer: (1) the right relationship, that of a son to a father; (2) the... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Luke 11:1-54

Pious At the Wrong Places Luk 11:42 In other words, you are pious at the wrong places. That is the point. It applies to us all. We think we make up for lack of the right, and complete piety by fussing about a thousand things that are secondary, subordinate, and hardly of any consequence. Thus man writes his poor programme of service. He has his little fads and likings and prejudices, and if you will allow him to cobble away at these he thinks he is about as good as anybody else. When men work... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Luke 11:42-52

(42) But, woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgement, and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. (43) Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets. (44) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them. (45) Then answered one of the lawyers, and... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Luke 11:48

Build, &c. See the notes Matthew xxiii. 29. (Witham) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:37-54

37-54 We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God has appointed. When any wait to catch something out of our mouths, that they may insnare us, O Lord, give us thy prudence and thy patience, and disappoint their evil purposes. Furnish us with such meekness and patience that we may glory in reproaches, for Christ's sake, and that thy Holy Spirit may... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Luke 11:1-99

Luke 11 ONCE AGAIN WE find the Lord in prayer, and this awakened in His disciples a desire to be taught to pray. As yet they did not possess the Spirit as we do today, and hence “praying in the Holy Ghost” ( Jud_1:20 ), and the help and intercession of the Spirit, of which Rom_8:26 , Rom_8:27 , speaks, could not be known by them as we may know it. At this period the Lord was their “Comforter” and Guide from without: we have “another Comforter,” who is within. In response, the Lord gave them... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Luke 11:45-48

The insulted lawyer: v. 45. Then answered one of the lawyers and said unto Him, Master, thus saying Thou reproachest us also. v. 46. And He said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! For ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. v. 47. Woe unto you! For ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. v. 48. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Luke 11:37-54

3. Two Manner of Enemies (Luke 11:37-54)37And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine [breakfast, ἀριστήσῃ] with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat [reclined]. 38And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. 39And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but 40your inward part is full of ravening [rapacity] and wickedness. Ye fools, did not he, 41that made that which is without,... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Luke 11:45-54

Searching Words for Hypocrites Luke 11:45-54 The minute oral and written rules promulgated by the Hebrew religious leaders overlaid and almost buried under their weight the simple Mosaic code. They were the subject of incessant disputing and discussion. A vast crowd of copyists, lecturers, teachers and casuists were always debating them. The lawyer who here addressed Christ was one of this class. He could hardly believe that this revered rabbi could include him and his fellows in these... read more