Luke 12

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 12:54-59

12:54-59 Jesus said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, 'Rain is coming.' And so it happens. When you feel the south wind blowing, you say, 'There will be scorching heat.' And so it happens. Hypocrites! you can read the signs of the face of the earth and the sky. How can you not read the signs of this time? Why do you not for yourselves judge what is right? When you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, make an effort to come to an... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 12:1

In the mean time ,.... While Christ was discoursing with the Pharisees, and they were using him in the vilest manner, throwing out their invectives against him in order to draw off the people from him: when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people . There were "myriads" of them, as in the original text, and a myriad is ten thousand; the meaning is, that there were several thousands of them: insomuch that they trod one upon another ; striving to get near to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 12:2

For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed ,.... No sin, be it ever so secret or privately done, as nothing is more covered than hypocrisy, but what shall be detected sooner or later; if not in this world, which is often the case, yet the last judgment, and in the world to come: neither hid, that shall not be known ; for how careful soever men may be to hide their vices from others, they are known to God; who will bring every thing into judgment, and make manifest the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 12:3

Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness ,.... In the most private manner, to one another: shall be heard in the light ; which makes all things manifest, the day shall declare it: and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets ; whispered to persons in their bedchambers, and places of the most secret retirement; shall be proclaimed upon the housetops ; declared in the most public manner: in Matthew 10:27 these words are so expressed, as to carry in them such a sense... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 12:4

And I say unto you, my friends ,.... Whom he dearly loved, and had taken into the greatest intimacy and familiarity; making known to them whatever he had heard from his Father; giving them the best instructions, the most faithful and friendly advice, and proper precautions; all which, and more, showed them to be his friends, and for whom he after laid down his life: be not afraid of them that kill the body ; though he would have them beware of the Pharisees, he would not have them be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 12:5

But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear , I will be your monitor, and direct you to the proper object of fear and reverence, and whom you should be careful to displease and offend: fear him, which after he hath killed ; your body, as the Persic version adds; hath taken away the life of it, by separating soul and body asunder, by sending one disease or another, or death in one shape or another: hath power to cast into hell ; your soul, as the above version also adds; yea, to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 12:6

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings ,.... As two were sold for one farthing; see Gill on Matthew 10:29 ; so in buying and selling, where more money is laid out, things are bought cheaper; the Persic version reads, "for two barley corns": and not one of them is forgotten before God ; a single sparrow, a bird of little value and worth, is taken notice and care of by him; it has its life from him, and is provided for with food by him, and is under his protection; nor does he ever... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 12:7

But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered ,.... Not only their persons had passed under the hands of him that telleth them, who is the "Palmoni", or "wonderful numberer", as in the margin of Daniel 8:13 and not only the several members of their bodies, or the more substantial parts of them, were written in the book of his purposes, according to which they were fashioned in time, but the more minute parts, and less to be regarded, were all told over, and kept in account; even... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 12:8

Also I say unto you , &c.; The same as in Matthew 10:32 whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the son of man also confess before the angels of God ; only instead of I, he here calls himself "the son of man"; and instead of "before my Father which is in heaven", here it is, "before the angels of God"; who will accompany Christ when he comes to judgment, and will be present, when he shall acknowledge his true followers as the blessed of his Father, the chosen of God, his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 12:9

But he that denieth me before men ,.... That is, that continues to deny Christ, and lives and dies a denier of him; for otherwise it is possible for a person to deny Jesus to be the Son of God, or the Messiah, and afterwards confess him, as a Pagan or Jew; and through temptation, a real Christian may be left for a while, in one shape or another, to deny him and his truths, and afterwards truly repent, and at last be saved, as Peter; but they that deny Christ publicly, and persist in it, ... read more

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