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Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
the Sixth Week after Epiphany
the Sixth Week after Epiphany
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Bible Commentaries
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Bibliographical Information
Abbott, John S. C. & Abbott, Jacob. "Commentary on Luke 20". "Abbott's Illustrated New Testament". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/ain/luke-20.html. 1878.
Abbott, John S. C. & Abbott, Jacob. "Commentary on Luke 20". "Abbott's Illustrated New Testament". https://www.studylight.org/
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Verse 2
Verse 2
These things; referring, perhaps, both to his public teaching in the temple, and to his expulsion of the buyers and sellers.
Verse 16
Verse 16
God forbid. They meant, by this exclamation, not to object to the punishment of such husbandmen, in the imaginary case, but to express their dissent in respect to the religious truth intended by it, viz., that the Messiah would be rejected by the Jewish people, and that they would consequently be destroyed. Hence the force of the Savior's reply in the Luke 20:17,Luke 20:18.
Verse 20
Verse 20
Just men; men honestly desirous of instruction.
Verse 22
Verse 22
Is it lawful, &c. They hoped to lead him to say something which the Roman government might consider seditious or treasonable.
Verse 38
Verse 38
Unto him; that is, in his view. When men die, they die only to those who survive them. In the sight of God, they continue to live, changing only the scene of existence.
Verse 47
Verse 47
Greater damnation; the guilt of their actual ungodliness being aggravated by their hypocritical pretensions to piety.