luke-17:20-36,1-thessalonians-5:1-2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 17:33

Whosoever shall seek to save his life - These or similar words were spoken on another occasion. See on Matthew 10:39 ; (note); Matthew 16:25 , Matthew 16:26 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 17:34-36

On the subject of these verses see Matthew 24:40 , Matthew 24:41 ; (note). The 36th verse is, without doubt, an interpolation. It was probably borrowed from Matthew 24:40 . The whole verse is wanting in - ABEGHKLQS, more than fifty others, the Coptic, Ethiopic, Gothic, Slavonic, and many of the fathers: Griesbach has left it out of the text. Well might our translators say in the margin, This 36th verse is wanting in most of the Greek copies. Griesbach thinks it might have been omitted on... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 17:20

Verse 20 20.And being interrogated by the Pharisees This question was undoubtedly put in mockery; for, since Christ was continually speaking of the kingdom of God as at hand, while no change was taking place in the outward condition of the Jews, wicked and malicious persons looked upon this as a plausible excuse for harassing him. As if all that Christ said about the kingdom of God were idle talk and mere trifling, they put a sarcastic question to him, “When shall that kingdom come?” If any one... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:1-37

The Master ' s teaching on the subject of the injury worked on the souls of others by our sins. The disciples pray for an increase of faith that they may be kept from such sins. The Lord ' s reply. His little parable on humility. The healing of the ten lepers. The ingratitude of all save one. The question of the Pharisees as to the coming of the kingdom. The Lord ' s answer, and his teaching respecting the awful suddenness of the advent of the Son of man. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:20

And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come . The following discourse of the Lord in reply to the Pharisee's question, 'When cometh the kingdom? was delivered, clearly, in the closing days of the ministry, probably just before the Passover Feast, and in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem. The query was certainly not put in a friendly spirit. The questioners had evidently caught the drift of much of our Lord's late teaching, and had seen how plainly he was... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:20-21

Radical mistakes respecting the kingdom of God. Pharisaism took its hostile attitude toward Christianity because it entirely failed to understand it. It made two radical mistakes which completely misled it. I. THE MISTAKES WHICH PHARISAISM MADE . 1 . As to the character of the coming kingdom. It thought it was to be outward, earthly, political, temporal; it was looking and longing for the time when another David, another Judas Maccabaeus, should come, should liberate... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:20-37

The kingdom and the day of the Son of man. This passage is not to be isolated as if it were a definition complete in itself of Christ's view of the kingdom of God. Some, doing this, have found in it a justification of the teaching that God's kingdom has no external character, that the coming of the Lord is only a revelation of truth in and to the heart of man. This is to do violence to the language of Jesus. In what he says afterwards to his own, in the solemn discourse reported two... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:20-37

The advent of the kingdom and the King. Jesus was on journey to Jerusalem when the ingratitude of the nine lepers, just noticed, took place, and this gave rise to speculation as to the near approach of his kingdom. His enemies, the Pharisees, put the sarcastic question when the kingdom of God should come, as much as to say, "We have heard of it long; we should like to see it." £ This leads our Lord to unfold the nature of his kingdom's advent and of his own. I. HIS KINGDOM COMES... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:21

Neither shall they say, Lo here: or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you . That kingdom will be marked out on no map, for, lo, it is even now in your midst. It may be asked—How "in your midst"? Scarcely not as Godet and Olshausen, following Chrysostom, think, in your hearts. The kingdom of God could not be said to be in the hearts of those Pharisees to whom the Master was especially directing his words of reply here. It should be rather understood in the midst of your... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:22

And he said unto the disciples . The Master now turns to the disciples, and, basing his words still upon the question of the Pharisees, he proceeds to deliver a weighty discourse upon the coming of the kingdom which will be manifest indeed, and externally, as well as internally, exceeding glorious, and for which this kingdom, now at its first beginning, will be for long ages merely a concealed preparation. Some of the imagery and figures used in this discourse reappear in the great... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 17:33

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 17:34-36

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 17:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:1-37

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:20-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:20-37

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:20-37

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 17:22

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