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Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Luke 7:18-35

b. The Embassy Of The Baptist (Luke 7:18-35)(Comp. Matthew 11:2-19 in part, Gospel for the 3d Sunday in Advent.)18And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things. 19And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus [the Lord, V. O.2], saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another [are we to look, προζδοκῶμεν, prob. subj.]? 20When the men were come unto him, they said, John [the] Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Luke 7:4

Luke WORTHY-NOT WORTHY Luk_7:4 , Luk_7:6 - Luk_7:7 . A Roman centurion, who could induce the elders of a Jewish village to approach Jesus on his behalf, must have been a remarkable person. The garrison which held down a turbulent people was not usually likely to be much loved by them. But this man, about whom the incident with which our texts are connected is related, was obviously one of the people of whom that restless age had many, who had found out that his creed was outworn, and who... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Luke 7:6-7

Luke WORTHY-NOT WORTHY Luk_7:4 , Luk_7:6 - Luk_7:7 . A Roman centurion, who could induce the elders of a Jewish village to approach Jesus on his behalf, must have been a remarkable person. The garrison which held down a turbulent people was not usually likely to be much loved by them. But this man, about whom the incident with which our texts are connected is related, was obviously one of the people of whom that restless age had many, who had found out that his creed was outworn, and who... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Luke 7:13-15

Luke JESUS AT THE BIER Luk_7:13 - Luk_7:15 . We owe our knowledge of this incident to Luke only. He is the Evangelist who specially delights in recording the gracious relations of our Lord with women, and he is also the Evangelist who delights in telling us of unasked miracles which Christ performed. Both of these characteristics unite in this story, and it may have been these, rather than the fact of its being a narrative of a resurrection, that found for it a place in this Gospel. Be that... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Luke 7:18-27

Luke JOHN’S DOUBTS AND CHRIST’S PRAISE Luk_7:18 - Luk_7:28 . We take three stages in this passage-the pathetic message from the prisoner, Christ’s double answer to it, and His grand eulogium on John. I. The message from the prisoner. Had mists of doubt crept over John’s clear conviction that Jesus was the Messiah? Some have thought it incredible that the man who had seen the descending dove, and heard the voice proclaiming ‘This is My beloved Son,’ should ever have wavered. But surely our... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Luke 7:28

Luke JOHN’ S DOUBTS AND CHRIST’ S PRAISE GREATNESS IN THE KINGDOM Luk_7:28 . We were speaking in a preceding sermon about the elements of true greatness, as represented in the life and character of John the Baptist. As we remarked then, our Lord poured unstinted eulogium upon the head of John, in the audience of the people, at the very moment when he showed himself weakest. ‘None born of women’ was, in Christ’s eyes, ‘greater than John the Baptist.’ The eulogium, authoritative as it was,... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Luke 7:30

Luke THWARTING GOD’S PURPOSE Luk_7:30 . Our Lord has just been pouring unstinted praise on the head of John the Baptist. The eulogium was tenderly timed, for it followed, and was occasioned by the expression, through messengers, of John’s doubts of Christ’s Messiahship. Lest these should shake the people’s confidence in the Forerunner, and make them think of him as weak and shifting, Christ speaks of him in the glowing words which precede my text, and declares that he is no ‘reed shaken... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Luke 7:34

Luke A GLUTTONOUS MAN AND A WINEBIBBER Luk_7:34 . Jesus Christ very seldom took any notice of the mists of calumny that drifted round Him. ‘When He was reviled He reviled not again.’ If ever He did allude to them it was for the sake of the people who were harming themselves by uttering them. So here, without the slightest trace of irritation, He quotes a malignant charge which was evidently in the popular mouth, and of which we should never have known if He had not repeated it; not with... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Luke 7:1-10

an Alien’s Surprising Faith Luke 7:1-10 It is interesting to find these wild flowers of natural faith, humility and love growing outside the carefully cultured garden of the Hebrew religion. God has never been without witnesses among the nations. We recall Cyrus in the Old Testament, Isaiah 45:1-7 ; and Cornelius in the New, Acts 10:1-8 . “In every nation.” See Acts 10:35 . But of course the propitiation of Christ underpins the salvation of all men, Romans 3:25 . Because the centurion was... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Luke 7:11-23

“God Hath Visited His People” Luke 7:11-23 Nain lay near the plain of Esdraelon, on the slopes of Little Hermon. Two confluent streams met there-those with Christ and those with death, Luke 7:11-12 . He wipes away tears by removing the cause. When the young are being borne by their young companions to graves of sin, it is thus that the Master arrests them. See Ephesians 5:14 . There was a threefold gradation in the power He put forth-to Jairus’ daughter, just dead; to this young man, on the... read more

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