Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 6:39-40
Luke 6:39-40. And he spake a parable, &c. Our Lord sometimes used parables, when he know plain and open declarations would too much inflame the passions of his hearers. It is for this reason that he uses this parable. Can the blind lead the blind Can the scribes teach this way, which they know not themselves? Will not they and their scholars perish together? The disciple is not above his master Can they make their disciples any better than themselves? If the master be ignorant,... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 6:20-49
See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7.Luke 6:21That hunger now - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more fully what Luke has briefly, but there is no contradiction.Luke 6:24-26These verses have been omitted by Matthew. They seem to have been spoken to the Pharisees.Who are rich - In this world’s goods. They loved them; they had sought for them; they found their consolation in them. It implies, farther, that... read more