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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 18:31-34

Jesus’ Disciples Must Recognise That Shortly Their Lives Also Would be Shaken By What Was Soon To Happen To Him. They Too Would Be At A Crossroads (18:31-34). So Luke now draws attention to the fact that the rich ruler was not the only one unwilling to face up to the truth. Indeed without the grace of God all the disciples would have become lost to Him. For their comprehension too was dim and they had still not been prepared to face up to the realities of the future. They too therefore had... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 18:32

“For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, and will be mocked, and shamefully treated, and spat on, and they will scourge and kill him, and the third day he will rise again.” He then spelled it out in detail. He was to be handed over to the Gentiles. This was the indication of ultimate rejection, of ultimate shame (compare Deuteronomy 28:37; Judges 4:2; Jeremiah 29:18; Lamentations 2:9; Ezekiel 4:13; Hosea 8:8; Hosea 9:17). He would be treated as such an outcast that He was not fit to be... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 18:31-34

Luke 18:31-Nahum : . Prediction of the Passion ( Mark 10:32-Nahum : *, Matthew 20:17-Psalms : *).— This prediction is the third in Mk. and Mt., the fourth in Lk., Luke 17:25 being added to Luke 9:22; Luke 9:44 Luke 18:34 is repeated from Luke 9:45.— In Luke 18:31 b there is an addition which speaks of the fulfilment of prophecy. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 18:31-34

We shall afterward, in the history of our Saviour’s passion, see all these things exactly fulfilled, and our Lord here assures his disciples, that it was but in accomplishment of all that was prophesied concerning the Messiah; nor was it any more than he had told them, Luke 9:22, and again, Luke 9:44; Matthew 20:17-19, Mark 10:32-34. Yet it is said, that they understood none of these things. The words were easy enough to be understood, but they could not reconcile them to the notion of the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 18:31-34

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 18:31. Then took He unto Him.—I.e., took the twelve apart. The parallel passage in St. Matthew’s Gospel says that this disclosure was made on the last journey up to Jerusalem. Between Luke 18:30 and Luke 18:31 should probably come the journey from Bethany in Peræa to Bethany in Judæa, the raising of Lazarus, and Christ’s retirement to Ephraim (John 11:54). From this retreat He now comes to keep His last Passover in Jerusalem. On more than one former occasion Christ had... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 18:31-36

Luke 18:31-36 I. The announcement by Christ of His approaching sacrifice was the announcement of the solution to the enigma which all the ages of mankind had been endeavouring to solve how to obtain peace with a justly offended God. The need of such a propitiation combined with a deep sense of human misery, runs through all heathen religious systems; all have their legends of a bygone golden age, when gods and men lived in closer union, when the earth brought forth of its own accord all that... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 18:31-34

DISCOURSE: 1559CHRIST FORETELLS HIS OWN SUFFERINGSLuke 18:31-34. Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man shall be accomplished. For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: and they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again. And they understood none of these things: and this... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 18:1-43

Shall we turn tonight to Luke, chapter 18.Luke tells us that Jesus nowspoke a parable to them to this end ( Luke 18:1 ),In other words, the purpose of the parable was to encourage people to pray and not to faint.that men ought always to pray, and not to faint ( Luke 18:1 );It is interesting to me that so often when people come, almost fainting over the dilemma that they are facing, that they are just breathless, at the end of the road. They're desperate; they're almost beside themselves as they... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Luke 18:1-43

Luke 18:1 . Men ought always to pray, and not to faint. We have continual wants, and God is always ready to hear. And as we must always be thinking of good or of evil, it is best to set the Lord always before us, and so to have our stated times of prayer, that the fire shall never go out on the altar of our heart. We should continue in prayer, because in many respects concerning particular blessings, the Lord hath just and wise reasons for delay, but he will surely answer in due time. If an... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 18:31-34

Luke 18:31-34Behold we go up to JerusalemThe entrance into the Passion seasonI.WE GAZE AT THE LORD, AND INQUIRE HOW HE ENTERED THE SEASON OF PASSION. 1. Not unprepared, but with a full, clear consciousness--(1) not only of His sufferings in general, but also in all their particulars; and (2) of the relation between His sufferings and the Divine Word and will. 2. His consciousness afforded Him the peace, courage, and decision to endure the sufferings willingly and patiently. II. WE GAZE AT... read more

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