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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 18:31-34

Here is, I. The notice Christ gave to his disciples of his sufferings and death approaching, and of the glorious issue of them, which he himself had a perfect sight and foreknowledge of, and thought it necessary to give them warning of, that it might be the less surprise and terror to them. Two things here are which we had not in the other evangelists:?1. The sufferings of Christ are here spoken of as the fulfilling of the scriptures, with which consideration Christ reconciled himself to them,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 18:35-43

Christ came not only to bring light to a dark world, and so to set before us the objects we are to have in view, but also to give sight to blind souls, and by healing the organ to enable them to view those objects. As a token of this, he cured many of their bodily blindness: we have now an account of one to whom he gave sight near Jericho. Mark gives us an account of one, and names him, whom he cured as he went out of Jericho, Mark 10:46. Matthew speaks of two whom he cured as they departed... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 18:31-34

18:31-34 Jesus took the Twelve and said to them, "Look you--we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that was written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. He will be handed over to the gentiles; and he will be mocked and cruelly treated; and spat upon; and they will scourge him and kin him; and on the third day he will rise again." But they did not understand these things; this word was hidden from them; and they did not grasp what was being said. There are two... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 18:35-43

18:35-43 When Jesus was approaching Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the wayside begging. When he heard the crowd passing through he asked what it meant. They told him, "Jesus of Nazareth is passing by." He shouted, "Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!" Those who were going on in front rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he cried all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me." Jesus stood, and ordered him to be brought to him. When he had come near he asked him, "What do you want me... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 18:31

Then he took unto him the twelve ,.... His twelve disciples, as the Ethiopic version expresses it; he took them aside from the rest of the company, as they were travelling on the road, and privately delivered to them, what follows; see Matthew 20:17 and said unto them, behold, we go up to Jerusalem ; to the feast of the passover, which was drawing near, and the last Christ was to eat with his disciples, the time of his sufferings, and death, being now at hand; and of which he thought... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 18:32

For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles ,.... As he was by the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, to Pilate, the Roman governor, and by him to the soldiers: and shall be mocked ; as he was by the latter, when they crowned him with thorns, arrayed him in a purple robe, and put a reed into his hand, and bowed the knee to him, saying, hail king of the Jews; and likewise by the Jews when he hung upon the cross: and spitefully entreated . The Syriac and Persic versions leave out this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 18:33

And they shall scourge him ,.... As he was by Pilate's order, before he was crucified: and put him to death ; a shameful, and a painful one, the death of the cross: and the third day he shall rise again ; as he accordingly did. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 18:34

And they understood none of these things ,.... "Not one of them", as the Syriac and Persic versions render it; every article of his sufferings and death were unintelligible by them; they knew not how to understand him in any one point: or how to reconcile these things to the notions they had entertained of the temporal grandeur, and glory, of the Messiah, and his kingdom; and which shows their great ignorance of the prophecies of the Old Testament concerning these things. And this saying ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 18:35

And it came to pass that as he was come nigh unto Jericho ,.... Which lay in his way to Jerusalem; a certain blind man sat by the way side begging : this was not blind Bartimaeus, nor his companion, for they were cured by Christ as he went out of Jericho; but this man before he came to it; for we afterwards read of his entrance into, and passing through Jericho, Luke 19:1 though much the same things are related in this account, as in that of the other two blind men; See Gill on ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 18:36

And hearing the multitude pass by ,.... Their "voice", as the Syriac version expresses it; the noise of their feet, and especially of their tongues; he asked what it meant ? what was the meaning of this concourse of people, and of this clamorous noise; or, as the Syriac version reads, "who it should be?" what person of note was passing by, that there was such a multitude after him? to which the answer best agrees. read more

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