Luke 15:1-32 WEB

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:1-32

Luke 25. Three Parables Showing God’ s Love for the Lost, and His Joy at their Restoration.— The three parables in this chapter have no definite note of time or place. An introduction is supplied from Luke 5:29 f. ( Mark 2:15 f.). Both the introduction (sinners crowding to hear Jesus) and the parables strike the new noto that Jesus came to sound— the direct interest in and appeal to the outcast ( cf. p. 622). “ This parable” ( Luke 15:3) must mean the parabolic discourse, embracing the three... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:1-2

I have so often taken notice, that the term all in the New Testament is very often used to signify, not all the individuals of that species, or order of men, to which it is applied, but only a great and considerable number of them, that it is needless again to repeat it. None can imagine, that every individual publican and sinner in those parts, where Christ now was, came to hear Christ, but only many of them, or some of every sort. Thus publicans and harlots entered into the kingdom of God,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:3-7

See Poole on "Matthew 18:12", and See Poole on "Matthew 18:13", where we met with the same parable, though not related with so many circumstances. Luke 15:7, which is the epiparabole, showeth us the principal thing which our Saviour by this parable designs to teach His hearers, and us also, viz. That Christ is so far from rejecting the greatest sinners, that repent, and flee unto his mercy, that, if it were possible, he should take a greater satisfaction in such an issue of Divine providence,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:8-10

This parable (as appeareth by the conclusion of it) is of the same import with the other, and needs no further explication. By both these parables our blessed Lord lets the Pharisees know the end he aimed at in conversing with publicans and sinners, viz. In order to their repentance and conversion, than which nothing could be more grateful and well pleasing to that God who desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that they should turn from their wickedness and live. Of the same import is... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:11-16

The scope of this excellent parable is apparently to magnify the grace of God, who is willing to receive and to treat kindly the greatest transgressors, seriously repenting, and turning unto God; but in it we are also, 1. Instructed in the original state of man, like that of a child in his father’s house, happy and wanting nothing. 2. The most miserable estate of fallen men, such especially as run to great excess of riot. 3. The true way of a sinner’s returning to God. 4. The readiness of our... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:17

Every sinner is beside himself; his reason lackeys to his lust and passion, he is governed by appetite, and that rageth in him, while his understanding is blind, and cannot discern between good and evil; and when he hath in any measure discerned any thing, his will is stubborn, and chooseth the evil. Conversion is but the return of a soul to itself. The first thoughts of which conversion arise from a soul’s consideration, what a poor miserable creature it is, ready to perish for ever, while... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:18-20

The way of a sinner’s returning to God must be by arising, going to the Father, confessing his sins with the aggravations of them, disclaiming any goodness, any righteousness in himself, humbling himself to God’s footstool. I will arise (saith the prodigal) and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. He arose from the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:21

Now the good thoughts and resolutions of the sinner ripen into action, and the first of it is an expression of his convictions and humiliation by a humble confession of his sins, with their aggravations, as committed against God, and that in the sight of God, and this God his Father, his unworthiness so much as of the name of a son to such a Father. The petitionary part of what he resolved upon, Luke 15:19, is not here again repeated, but to be understood. Men may by the common grace of God,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:22-24

We must remember that we are in a parable where a sinner is represented to us under the notion of a prodigal son; God, under the notion of an indulgent father; a repenting sinner, under the notion of a prodigal returning to his father, confessing his error, petitioning his father for mercy, acknowledging he deserveth none, but casting himself upon his father’s goodness and mercy. It is observed by an eminent author, that amongst all the parables this is one of the most famous, and wherein is... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:25-32

This last part of the parable is not so exactly applicable to that which it is brought to represent as the former parts are, but it serveth excellently to show us that envy which is found in our hearts by nature to the spiritual good and advantage of others. Two things are observable in it: 1. Man’s peevishness and envy. 2. God’s meekness towards us under our frowardness. By the elder son some think the Jews are represented, whose peevishness to the Gentiles, and the offer of the grace of the... read more

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:1-32

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:1-2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:3-7

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:8-10

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:11-16

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:17

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:18-20

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:21

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:22-24

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 15:25-32

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