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James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:34

THE FIRST OF THE SEVEN WORDS‘Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.’ Luke 23:34 The greatest fact in the whole world is sin; the greatest need in the whole world is forgiveness. But Christ needed not to pray for forgiveness for Himself; so He prays for our very greatest need—forgiveness. I. We come to church, and, kneeling underneath the Cross, we ask that the blood of the covenant may fall upon us, and we say devoutly what others said in derision, ‘His blood be upon us and... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:42

RECOGNISED AT LAST‘Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom.’ Luke 23:42 At last Christ is recognised. The secret is out. The mystery is solved. He was a King; and yet what a strange moment to make the discovery! No one but the poor thief on the cross could see it. I. Not Pilate, the clever man of the world, the man of position, in authority, of social rank, skilled and cultivated, not without thoughtfulness, sceptical rather whether there be any solid truth, and yet capable of... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:43

THE SECOND WORD FROM THE CROSS‘Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.’ Luke 23:43 The dying thief desired to be near the Lord. I. His is no fragment of repentance; it is the full conversion of the whole man to God.—The last act of a man’s life is not more momentous than the first, except it prove what the character of the whole man is. If God judge a man by the last thing he did, it is not because it is the last—what is time to God?—but because it is the expression... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:46

THE LAST WORD FROM THE CROSS‘Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit.’ Luke 23:46 Do those we have lost still live? The last word of Jesus gives us the answer, an answer which we cannot mistake. Yes; the soul lives. ‘Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit.’I think our Saviour helps us very simply by dwelling on two fundamental truths of religion which we are very apt in the strain and stress of life to forget or overlook. I. First of all there is the true Fatherhood of God.—If God... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:48

LESSONS FROM THE CROSS‘And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.’ Luke 23:48 We, too, have come together this day to the sight and contemplation of the Cross, and Him Who hangs thereon. We, too, have smote upon our breasts, and bewailed our sins. We are about to return from that sight. Let us take home a few thoughts to stand us in good stead in our Christian conduct in the days that are to come. I. And first,... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 23:1-56

Jesus Is Crucified And Rises Again (22:1-24:53). We now come to the final Section of Luke which is also in the form of a chiasmus (see analysis below). Central in this final chiasmus is the crucifixion of Jesus. This brings out how central the crucifixion is in the thinking of Luke. As the Servant of the Lord He is to be numbered among the transgressors for their sakes (Luke 22:37). This is indeed what the Gospel has been leading up to, something that is further demonstrated by the space given... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 23:26

‘And when they led him away, they sequestrated one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to bear it after Jesus.’ These few words cover a multitude of suffering. Luke omits mention of how the soldiers also engaged in horseplay towards Him (Mark 15:16-20). And then in His bloodied and broken state He would be taken from Pilate’s presence and stood in the midst of four soldiers with His crosspiece over His shoulder and the procession would then move forwards as fast... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 23:26-33

The Crucifixion of Jesus (23:26-33). The moment that this last part of the Gospel has been building up to has now come. Jesus had spoken of His trials and temptations (Luke 22:28), and of the suffering that lay ahead (Luke 22:15), and He had prayed in the Garden that if it was possible within the will of God He might be spared it (Luke 22:42), and now His final trials had begun in earnest. The Jesus of the Upper Room was no more. Instead there was a bloodied and broken physical wreck, and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 23:27

‘And there followed him a great crowd of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.’ Inevitably as the procession moved along (the two insurrectionists were also in the procession bearing their own crosses - Luke 23:32) people gathered, and many would recognise in Him the prophet Whose teaching they had found so moving. We can only imagine their feelings towards Rome when they saw what Pilate had done to Him. At this stage they would never dream that it was the result of the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 23:28

‘But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.” And Jesus, bloodied and broken, hardly able to keep moving without support, saw their weeping and His heart was moved. For it brought home to Him a day that was coming, a day of which He had previously warned, when they would be weeping not for Him but for themselves. And His tender heart went out to them. He thought not of Himself but of them. And through His cracked... read more

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:34

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:42

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:43

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:46

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 23:48

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 23:1-56

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 23:26

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 23:26-33

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 23:27

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 23:28

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