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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 17:1-37

Chapter 17Now He turns again to His disciples.Then said he unto his disciples, It is impossible but that offenses will come ( Luke 17:1 ):You cannot help if you're living in this world, you're going to have offenses come your way. There are going to be people who will seek to put stumbling stones in your path. And that's what the word offense here; it's a stone of stumbling, a scandalon. It's impossible to live your life without having these things happen. These offenses, as people challenge... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Luke 17:1-37

Luke 17:1 . It is impossible but that offences will come. Such as the disciples had just seen, the contempt and derision evinced by the pharisees; but woe to the man, and woe to the nation which shall despise the gospel. At the same time be of a forgiving temper; pardon on apology, and do not think that by practising the higher graces of true religion, in overcoming evil with good, that you merit any thing as a debt of your heavenly Father. By rendering evil for evil you would multiply... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 17:11-19

Luke 17:11-19Ten men that were lepersThe ten lepersI.THEIR ORIGINAL CONDITION. Defiled. Separated. II. THEIR APPLICATION TO CHRIST. 1. Observe the distance they kept from His person. 2. The earnestness of their prayer. 3. The unanimity of their application. 4. The reverence and faith they evinced. III. THE CURE WROUGHT. IV. THE THANKS RENDERED BY THE SAMARITAN AND THE INGRATITUDE OF THE NINE. 1. The willingness and power of Christ to heal. 2. The application to be made. 3. The return He demands... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 17:11

11 And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. Ver. 11. He passed through Samaria and Galilee ] Albeit he had forbidden his apostles to pass into those parts till after his death; yet he manifested by many arguments that the gospel belonged, and should shortly be preached, to those poor pagans, that as yet sat in darkness and in the shadow of death. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 17:11

§ 96. THE CLEANSING OF THE TEN LEPERS, Luke 17:11-19 . 11. As he went to Jerusalem From Ephraim, where he had resided for some weeks in retirement, being thither driven after his raising of Lazarus. Midst of Samaria and Galilee Jesus journeyed along the intermediate territory or boundary line of Samaria and Galilee, having the former on the right and the latter on the left, proceeding eastward until he should reach the Jordan at Scythopolis, (Bethshan or Beisan,) where was a bridge upon... read more

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