Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:33
Samaritan is mentioned merely to show that he was a person from whom a Jew had no right to expect any help or relief, because of the enmity which subsisted between the two nations. read more
Luke 10:30-35 Asv
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:34
Pouring in oil and wine - These, beaten together, appear to have been used formerly as a common medicine for fresh wounds. Bind up a fresh cut immediately in a soft rag or lint, moistened with pure olive oil, and the parts will heal by what is called the first intention, and more speedily than by any other means. An inn - Πανδοχειον , from παν , all, and δεχομαι , I receive; because it receives all comers. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:35
Two pence - Two denarii, about fifteen pence, English; and which, probably, were at that time of ten times more value there than so much is with us now. read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:30
Verse 30 30.And Jesus answering said. Christ might have stated simply, that the word neighbor extends indiscriminately to every man, because the whole human race is united by a sacred bond of fellowship. And, indeed, the Lord employed this word in the Law, for no other reason than to draw us sweetly to mutual kindness. The commandment would have run more clearly thus: Love every man as thyself. But as men are blinded by their pride, so that every man is satisfied with himself, scarcely deigns... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 10:25-37
The question of the lawyer. The Lord answers with the parable of the good Samaritan. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 10:25-37
The parable of the good Samaritan. The second of the parables peculiar to St. Luke, and one of the loveliest and most suggestive of the matchless pictures of him who "spake as never man spake." Notice— I. ITS OCCASION . Our Lord is in Judaea, not, as we infer from what follows, at a great distance from Bethany. He and his disciples, we may suppose, are resting, when a lawyer— i.e. a person who made the Law both oral and written his study—proposes a question with which, or its... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 10:25-42
The good Samaritan, and the good part. From the success of the seventy we now pass to the temptation of the Master. The tempter is a lawyer, one who, therefore, professed special acquaintance with the letter and spirit of the Divine Law. He thinks he may find accusation against Jesus by inquiring from him the way of life. His question implies the belief on the lawyer's part that he can win his own way to heaven. But Jesus, when he asks, "Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 10:30
And Jesus answering said . For reply the Master told him and the listening by-standers the parable-story we know so well as the "good Samaritan"—the parable, which has been "the consolation of the wanderer and the sufferer, of the outcast and the heretic, in every age and country" (Stanley). The story was one of those parables especially loved by Luke (and Paul), in which instruction is conveyed, not by types, but by example. It was very probably a simple recital of a fact which had... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 10:31
There came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. Both the priest and Levite were frequent travellers along this road between the capital and Jericho. Jericho was especially a city of priests, and when the allotted service or residence time at the temple was over, these would return naturally to their own homes. It has been remarked that the grave censure which this story levels at the everyday want of charity on the part of priests and... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 10:31-32
Priest and Levite are mentioned here, partly because they were the most frequent travelers on this road, and partly to show that these were the persons who, from the nature of their office, were most obliged to perform works of mercy; and from whom a person in distress had a right to expect immediate succor and comfort; and their inhuman conduct here was a flat breach of the law, Deuteronomy 22:1-4 . read more