ルカの福音書 16:14-17 JCB

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:1-31

Men Must Live In The Light Of The Coming Of The Son of Man In His Glory (15:1-19:28). Having established in Section 1 that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in the city of David where He was proclaimed ‘Saviour’ and ‘Lord Messiah’; and in Section 2 that as ‘the Son of God’ Jesus had faced His temptations as to what His Messiahship would involve and defeated the Tempter; and that in Section 3 He had proclaimed in parables the secrets of ‘the Kingly Rule of God’; and had in Section 4 taught His... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:14

‘And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.’ The Pharisees scoffed at His ideas (literally ‘turned up their noses at Him’). When Luke says that it was because they were ‘lovers of money’ he does not necessarily mean that they were greedy, although no doubt some of them were. He means more that their view of money was very different from that of Jesus. They honoured and revered it. It was true that they did consider that wealth was one test of a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:14-18

Jesus Replies to The Mockery of the Pharisees Directed At His Ideas About Wealth (16:14-18). The Pharisees had been listening in to his advice to His disciples and they derided Him. For in their eyes having wealth was a good thing. Some of them were wealthy, and others of them coveted wealth. But both were agreed that being wealthy and prospering was an evidence of being pleasing to God (compare Luke 20:47; Matthew 23:14; Matthew 23:16; Romans 7:7-8). They thus did not see mammon as... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:15

‘And he said to them, “You are they who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts, for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.” Jesus recognises that their derision goes to the very heart of what is wrong with them. They have built up a theology to which they can point to demonstrate the ‘rightness’ of their behaviour, much of which is actually an abomination to God, for it makes idols of their ‘laws’ which in fact themselves fail to make... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:16

“The law and the prophets were until John, from that time the Good News of the Kingly Rule of God is preached, and every man enters violently into it (or ‘every man is overpowered by it’).” Their next major failure lay in their having failed to recognise God’s intervention in history. They professed to honour the Law and the Prophets, and that was good in so far as it was true, but they had failed to recognise that with the coming of John the Baptiser, and especially in His own coming, these... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:17

“But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.” But all this does not mean that the Instruction of God (the Law) has been superseded, for nothing in that Instruction can fail. Heaven and earth will pass away before that can happen. Every last letter or part of letter is sacrosanct. The tittle (or ‘horn’) was the addition made to some Hebrew letters in order to differentiate them (compare Matthew 5:18 which has ‘not one iota or tittle’). We should... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:14-18

Luke 16:14-Job : . Words to Pharisees. Luke 16:14 f. Lk. only. The verses seem introduced by Lk. to indicate that the preceding and succeeding parables were directed against Pharisees. They also illustrate his antipathy to the rich. Poverty and righteousness are identified, as in many of the Psalms. In Lk.’ s source the parable of Luke 16:19-Obadiah : may have illustratively followed Luke 16:15. Luke 16:16 . Cf. Matthew 11:12 f.* The coming of John marks a crisis in the religious history... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 16:14

Concerning the Pharisees’ covetousness we have often heard before; and indeed they were so from this principle, that none but the rich were happy and blessed, and that all poor people were cursed, John 7:49; in opposition to whom some think that our Saviour, Luke 6:20, blessed the poor. The promises relating to the Old Testament, and made to the Jews, were generally of temporal blessings, though under them spiritual mercies were also understood. As hypocrites can never endure to have their... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 16:15

By justifying here is to be understood either an appearing before men as just, and strict observers of the law, or a predicating of themselves as just: You (saith our Saviour) make a fine show, and great brags amongst men; but God’s eye goeth deeper, he knoweth the heart, what pride, and covetousness, and hypocrisy lodge there. Men do not know your hearts, but God knoweth them. All is not gold by God’s touchstone that glitters in man’s eyes. Nay, many things which are highly esteemed amongst... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 16:16

We had the sum of these words: See Poole on "Matthew 11:12-13". The connection of these words in this place seems to be this: Do not think it strange that I preach some doctrines to you which seem new to you, though indeed they are no other than was before contained in the precepts of the Old Testament; for the law and the prophets, the preaching of them, held but till John, since whose time the gospel hath been preached, which gives you a clearer light into the will of God than you had before;... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:1-31

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:14

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:14-18

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:15

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:16

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:17

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:14-18

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 16:14

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 16:15

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 16:16

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