Luke 11:45-52 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 11:37-54

Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Matt. 23:1-39); for what he said in public and private was of a piece. He would not say that in a corner which he durst not repeat and stand to in the great congregation; nor would he give those reproofs to any sort of sinners in general which he durst not apply to them in particular as he met with them; for he was, and is, the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 11:45-54

11:45-54 A scribe answered, "Teacher, when you talk like that you are insulting us." Jesus said, "Woe to you scribes too! because you bind burdens upon men that are hard to bear and you yourselves do not lay a finger on the burdens. Woe to you! because you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed! So you are witnesses that you agree with the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them and you build them tombs. Because of this God in his wisdom said, 'I will send prophets... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:45

Then answered one of the lawyers ,.... Or Scribes, as the Syriac and Persic versions read: and so the Ethiopic version calls him, "a Scribe of the city": the Scribes and lawyers were the same sort of persons who were interpreters of the law, and equally tenacious of the traditions of the elders Christ had referred to, as the Pharisees, and in general were Pharisees; though some of them might be of the sect of the Sadducees. This man observing that Christ, in his last words, joined the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:46

And he said, woe unto you also, ye lawyers ,.... Christ was so far from calling back what he had said or suggested, that he repeats and confirms it, and more particularly names them, and enlarges on their evil practices: for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers;, Matthew 23:4 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:47

Woe unto you ,.... Meaning particularly the lawyers or Scribes, together with the Pharisees, and even the whole body of the people, who in general were of the cast and complexion here described: for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets ; See Gill on Matthew 23:29 . and your fathers killed them ; the prophets; "or whom your fathers killed", as read the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions; the one put them to death, and the other erected stately monuments over them, or adorned... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:48

Truly ye bear witness, that ye allow the deeds of your fathers ,.... Or "ye bear witness, and ye allow"; that is, they both witnessed that their fathers killed the prophets, and they consented to what they did, and approved of their actions: for they indeed killed them ; it must be owned, and not their sons: and ye build their sepulchres ; which was a bearing and keeping up a testimony against them, and a continuing a remembrance of their crimes; and which looked as though they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:49

Therefore also said the wisdom of God ,..... The Syriac version only reads "wisdom"; by which seems to be meant not the perfection of God's wisdom: though it is usual with the Jews to represent the divine perfections as speaking, as the justice and mercy of God. They say F2 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 94. 1. Vid. Targum in Eccl. x. 8. & in Lam. i. 1. & ii. 20. , that "when the holy blessed God sought to make Hezekiah the Messiah, and Sennacherib, Gog, and Magog, מידת הדין ,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:50

That the blood of all the prophets ,.... The same with "all the righteous blood", or the blood of all the righteous men, in Matthew 23:35 , which was shed from the foundation of the world : for there were prophets from the beginning, which prophesied of Christ, Luke 1:70 and whose blood was shed very early; for Abel, the son of the first man, and who was the first whose blood was shed, was not only a righteous man, but a prophet; for by the sacrifice which he offered up, he gave a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:51

From the blood of Abel ,.... "Righteous Abel", as in Matthew 23:35 and so read the Arabic version here, and two manuscripts in the Bodleian library, and three of Stephens's copies; the Persic version renders it, "innocent Abel": he is mentioned because he was the first man that was slain, and he was slain because of his righteousness. Unto the blood of Zacharias ; in the Cambridge copy of Beza's, it is added, "the son of Barachias", as in Matthew 23:35 and so the Arabic version, "the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:52

Woe unto you lawyers ,.... Who are particularly addressed again in distinction from the Pharisees, though much the same things are said to them both in Matthew 23:13 for ye have taken away the key of knowledge ; of the Scriptures, of the law, and the prophets, and the true interpretation of them, and especially of such places as refer to the Messiah, and the Gospel dispensation, called the kingdom of heaven, Matthew 23:13 they had not only arrogated the knowledge of these to... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 11:37-54

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 11:45-54

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:45

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:46

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:47

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:48

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:49

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:50

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:51

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:52

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