Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Luke 7:18-35
49. Messengers from John the Baptist (Matthew 11:1-19; Luke 7:18-35)Shut up in prison, John the Baptist received only irregular and possibly inaccurate reports of Jesus’ ministry. These reports must have caused him to wonder whether Jesus really was the Messiah he foretold. Jesus sent back the message that he was carrying out a ministry of relief to the oppressed, which was the sort of ministry foretold of the Messiah in the Old Testament (Matthew 11:1-5; cf. Isaiah 35:5-6; Isaiah 61:1). Many... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 7:29-35
Luke 7:29-35. And all the people That were present, and the publicans in particular, when they heard this discourse, having been formerly baptized with the baptism of John, justified God Owned his wisdom and mercy, in having called them to repentance by John’s ministry, and prepared them for him that was to come. But the Pharisees and lawyers The good, learned, honourable men; rejected the counsel of God against themselves That is, to their own prejudice. They made void God’s... read more