Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 15:25-32
The older brother 15:25-32 read more
路加福音 15:29-30 Cunpts
Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 15:29-30
After a disrespectful address, the older son boasted of what he had done for his father and than blamed him for not giving him more. Clearly he felt that the father’s response should reflect justice rather than grace. He was counting on a reward commensurate with his work (cf. Matthew 20:12). This hardly reflects a loving relationship."He hasn’t stayed home because he loved his father, but because working in his fields was a way to get what he wanted." [Note: Inrig, p. 25.] Wiersbe pointed out... read more
John Darby
Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Luke 15:29
15:29 serve (a-13) Douleuo . bond-service, i.e. of a slave. read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 15:1-32
Parables of the Lost Sheep, of them Lost Coin, of the Prodigal Son1-7. Parable of the Lost Sheep. See on Matthew 18:12-13. The first of a series of three parables for the encouragement of penitents. It shows the love of our Saviour for the outcast, the despised, and the criminal classes generally. It rebukes the Pharisees, who professed to be shepherds, for their neglect of that part of the flock that most needed their help, and lastly it indicates that the Pharisees are in many respects worse... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 15:29
(29) Lo, these many years do I serve thee.—The very word “I serve,” as a slave serves, is eminently suggestive. The obedience had all along been servile, prompted by fear and hope, even as the slave’s obedience is. The language put into the mouth of the elder son is clearly meant to represent the habitual thoughts of the Pharisees. They are taken, as it were, after our Lord’s manner, as seen in the previous parables, at their own valuation of themselves. They are conscious of no transgressions;... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 15:30
(30) As soon as this thy son was come.—The feeling of discontent passes into scorn and bitterness. The sin of the wanderer is painted at once in the coarsest and darkest colours. The very turn of the phrase, “this thy son” speaks of a concentrated malignity. read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Luke 15:1-32
The Approachableness of Christ Luke 15:1-2 This truth of the approachableness of Christ, the freeness with which He opened Himself to every needy and suffering soul, is not of subordinate importance, but of the very essence of His Gospel. It rests on the constitution of His Person. It is necessitated by the very fact of His being what He is, the man Christ Jesus, and by His having come to do what He declared to be the object of His mission. I. First of all, it rests upon the fact of His... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Luke 15:1-32
Chapter 21LOST AND FOUND.IN this chapter we see how the waves of influence, moving outward from their Divine center, touch the outermost fringe of humanity, sending the pulsations of new excitements and new hopes through classes Religion and Society both had banned. "Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto Him, for to hear Him."It was evidently a movement widespread and deep. The hostility of Pharisees and scribes would naturally give to these outcasts a certain bias in His... read more
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Luke 15:1-32
CHAPTER 15 1. The Murmuring Pharisees. (Luke 15:1-2 ) 2. The Parable of the Lost Sheep. (Luke 15:3-7 ) 3. The Parable of the Lost Coin. (Luke 15:8-10 ) 4. The Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Elder Brother. (Luke 15:11-32 .) Luke 15:1-10 A blessed climax of the teaching of our Lord as the Saviour and the friend of sinners is reached with this chapter, a chapter which the Saints of God have always loved and will always love. Here we find the completest illustration of the key text of... read more
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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Luke 15:11-32
4. The parable of the lost son 15:11-32This third parable in the series again repeats the point of the former two that God gladly receives repentant sinners, but it stresses still other information. The joy of the father in the first part of the parable contrasts with the grumbling of the elder brother in the second part. The love of the father was equal for both his sons. Thus the parable teaches that God wants all people to experience salvation and to enter the kingdom."This parable is often... read more