Luke 12:35-36

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 12:35-40

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 12:35. Loins girded.—An allusion to the long robes of the East, which those who wear them must bind up before they engage in any active employment. Lights burning.—The same lesson as in the parable of the Ten Virgins.Luke 12:36. Men that wait.—This is a different figure from the parable just named: servants waiting at home for their master’s return from the wedding. Wedding.—The word may mean a feast or entertainment of any kind. No stress, therefore, need be laid upon the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 12:35-37

DISCOURSE: 1529THE WATCHFUL SERVANTLuke 12:35-37. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.SUCH is the uncertainty... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 12:1-59

Shall we turn in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 12.We are dealing with the final month in the ministry of Jesus. He has returned to Jerusalem. He will soon be leaving Jerusalem to go down to the area of the Jordan River beyond Jericho. Where He will sort of absent Himself from the authorities, until such a time as He comes back for the feast of the Passover, and makes His triumphant entry on the Sunday before the feast of the Passover. So just where, here in Luke's account, does Jesus... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Luke 12:1-59

Luke 12:1 . There were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people. The Greek is myriads, or ten thousands of people. Luke 12:5 . Power to cast into hell. The Greek is Gehenna, as on Isaiah 30:33. Matthew 5:22. Luke 12:6 . Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, two assarions. The assarion was the tenth of a denarion. A farthing, that is, the fourth of a penny, though correct in English, is quite erroneous when applied to the denarion, as in the Greek. Matthew 22:19.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 12:35-40

Luke 12:35-40Men that wait for their LordOf the believer’s readiness for the coming of ChristThis readiness stands in watchfulness and fidelity.I. WATCHFULNESS. 1. Its nature. 2. Its ground. The servant’s relation of dependence toward his Lord. 3. The motive to it. The glorious reward. 4. The difficulty of it. The long delay. 5. Its necessity. The uncertainty of the time. II. FIDELITY. 1. Motives to it. (1) The confidence reposed in him by the Lord; (2) who intrusts to him a large sphere of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 12:35

35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; Ver. 35. Let your loins be girded ] It implies, 1. readiness; 2. nimbleness, handiness, and handsomeness. A loose, discinct, and diffluent mind is unfit to serve God. Here it is ungirt, unblest. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 12:36

36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Ver. 36. And knocketh ] sc. By the hammer of his word and Spirit, or by the hand of death, summoning you thereto by some sickness, death’s harbinger. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Luke 12:35

your loins: 1 Kings 18:46, Proverbs 31:17, Isaiah 5:27, Isaiah 11:5, Ephesians 6:14, 1 Peter 1:13 your lights: Matthew 5:16, Matthew 25:1, Matthew 25:4-2 Samuel :, Philippians 2:15 Reciprocal: Exodus 12:11 - loins Exodus 27:21 - Aaron Leviticus 24:2 - the lamps 2 Kings 9:1 - Gird up thy loins Psalms 90:12 - So Jeremiah 1:17 - gird up Matthew 24:42 - Watch Matthew 25:7 - General Matthew 25:8 - for 1 Corinthians 16:13 - Watch read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Luke 12:36

men: Luke 2:25-Amos :, Genesis 49:18, Isaiah 64:4, Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26, Matthew 24:42-Acts :, Mark 13:34-Haggai :, James 5:7, James 5:8, 2 Peter 1:13-Ezra :, Jude 1:20, Jude 1:21 return: Matthew 22:1-2 Chronicles :, Matthew 25:1-1 Chronicles : when: Song of Solomon 5:5, Song of Solomon 5:6, Revelation 3:20 Reciprocal: Matthew 25:10 - they 1 Corinthians 1:7 - waiting 2 Thessalonians 3:5 - and into read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Luke 12:35

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;Let your loins be girt — An allusion to the long garments, worn by the eastern nations, which they girded or tucked up about their loins, when they journeyed or were employed in any labour: as also to the lights that servants used to carry at weddings, which were generally in the night. read more