Luke 7:1-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:19

And John calling unto him two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? What, now, was in John the Baptist's mind, when from his prison he sent his disciples to ask Jesus this anxious question? Disappointed in the career of Jesus, possibly himself partly forgotten, accustomed to the wild freedom of a desert-life, suffering from the hopeless imprisonment,—had his faith begun to waver? or was the question put with a view of reassuring... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:19-22

Human goodness and the permanency of the gospel. We have here— I. A CONSTANT CHARACTERISTIC OF HUMAN GOODNESS . HOW came John to send this message? Was he really doubtful—he who had prepared the way of the Lord, who had baptized him, who had recognized in him the Lamb of God? Even so. Many ingenious theories account for it in some other way, but they do not satisfy. After all, was it surprising that John should begin to doubt? He had been lying in that lonely fortress by... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:21

And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. "He knew as God what John's design was in sending to him, and he put it into his heart to send at that very time when he himself was working many miracles which were the true answer to the question" (Cyril, quoted by Wordsworth). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:22

Tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised . These miracles which the messengers witnessed that day, striking though they were, were no novel ones in the work of our Lord. They were, too, precisely similar to those which had already been reported to him in his prison (verse 18). But Jesus, pointing to these signs, bade the friends of the Baptist return and tell their master what they had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:22

The leprosy of sin. Why specify the fact that the lepers were cleansed? Why single out this disease from others that might have been named? Because it was peculiarly desirable that, when the Messiah came and gave credentials of his heavenly origin, he should exercise his power in this direction. For leprosy was the chosen type of sin. All disease is pictorial of sin; it is to our bodily frame what sin is to the soul—it is inward disorder showing itself in outward manifestation. But... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:23

And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. Our Lord here shows that he understood that this question came from the Baptist himself. Dean Plumptre calls attention to the tender way in which our Lord dealt with the impatience which John's question implied. "A warning was needed, but it was given in the form of a beatitude, which it was still open to him to claim and make his own. Not to find a stumbling-block in the manner in which Christ had actually come, there was this... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:23

Christ as an offence. "Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." It was simply inevitable that our Lord, if he laid himself out to do the very best and greatest that could be done, should be an offence to many. "Not to send peace, but a sword," was a purely incidental, but it was a necessary result of such faithfulness as he showed. I. THE OFFENCE TO BE FOUND IN CHRIST . 1 . The offence of the Messiahship. Our Lord offended John the Baptist (see... read more

Albert Barnes

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:19

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:19-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:23

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 7:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 7:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 7:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 7:4

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