It is only Luke who gives us this touch. This great and glorious fact superseded all others. Then, after settling this moral truth which was fundamental for the soul, He turns to His disciples, and tells them that the days would come when they should desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and should not see it; for the kingdom will be displayed by and by. This at least must he the basis. Next is set forth humility, founded on our littleness (ver. I don't know of a single instance where God forgave a person without repentance. He was what men call a just and good man, yet a chief tax-gatherer and a wealthy one, though they be hard things to put together. The NASB simply translates the word as two. (Verses Luke 22:24-27.). In Luke the same thing, occurs here, as we said applied to His account of the sermon on the mount. Where, Lord? Out of this difficult passage we can pick only the things which are certain--and in truth they are enough. There is a warning here. Repentance, so far from allowing it, is the perception and confession that there is no good in man, in me; it is wrought by grace, and is inseparable from faith. Sleeping with someone having a sexual connotation is a modern invention. This most fitly has its place in Matthew, spite (yea, because of) His rejection. WebLuke 17:34 | New Living Translation (NLT) [ 34 ] That night two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. Those taken will experience punishment and will die while those left will enter the kingdom since they will be believers. This was for other hands. ( Luke 17:1 ). Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant* of my blood, which is shed for you." The nine--where are they? How great is the simplicity and assurance of faith! Luke 17:35 (NASB). Better for him if that had happened to him than he should offend one of the little ones. Would they get left out? They expected that He was going to take the throne of David at once. He cannot give us the understanding of a state which we have never experienced, unless it be by figures taken from the present state. WebLuke 17:34-35.But the decision at the Parousia, what a separation it will be!a separation of those who are in the temporal life united in a perfectly common position. Is it not often true that a family is apt to leave the duties of church membership to one of its number? You have a choice between the two. Further, He opens their understanding to understand the Scriptures, and gives them their great commission, but bids them remain in Jerusalem till endued with power from on high, when He sends them the promise of the Father. It seeks what belongs not to nature, but to God. It was the last act of communion of Christ with them. for if he had, he would, of course, have put it forward. (2.) What does the verse mean? Nothing could better show the utter isolation in which lepers lived. There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. (ii) Often we are ungrateful to our fellow-men. The old covenant which condemned was limited. God will provide for them on the other side Jordan, and then a deluge of judgments shall flow in upon them, which will destroy all the unbelieving Jews. He was about to drink of a far different cup, which His Father would give Him the anti-type of the passover, and the basis of the Lord's Supper. The Revised Standard Version talks in these verses about temptations to sin. He called His ten servants, and delivered to them ten pounds; and said unto them, "Occupy till I come." More idle hands doing the Devil's work to be sure and no mistake about that under these circumstances. Jerusalem has been trodden down of the Gentiles for many centuries as every one knows, throughout mediaeval and modern history. de Lectis Veter. They "were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God;" but they were associated in life and love with One whose glory was far above them or any conceivable precincts of the earth, and were soon to be made one with Him, and to be the vessels of His power by the energy of the Holy Ghost, who would make this evident in due time. I've only done what is my duty to do. (VersesLuke 23:44-46; Luke 23:44-46. We are not quite sure what Jesus went on to say. Absolute grace begins, therefore, with the spot which needed it most, and Jerusalem is expressly named. I do not believe that God's judgment will come upon the earth until the church is taken out. He was really in heart thoroughly rejected already; but He was shortly to enter on other sufferings, even to the death of the cross. The Jews having made themselves a dead and putrefied carcase, odious to God's holiness and obnoxious to his justice, wherever any of that unbelieving generation is, the judgments of God shall fasten upon them, as the eagles do upon the prey: Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies (Psalms 21:8), though they set their nests among the stars,Obadiah 1:4. It was better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he was cast into the sea, than he should offend one of these little ones ( Luke 17:2 ). And the other verse refers to a slang word! In Luke 17:20-21 Jesus answered the question of the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God would come. On the other hand, in the midst of any answers that God may vouchsafe, and of all service rendered to Him, the admonitory word is added that when we have done all things not when we have failed we are unprofitable servants. But here this is not the point, but His power, although He be, of course, a person. You can't live your life unscathed. Clearly, therefore, we must interpret the general language of Luke by the exacter marks of the time and place of those who declare it was as He was going out. Were none found to turn back and give glory to God except this foreigner?" One of them when he saw that he was cured, turned back, glorifying God with a great voice. His visit to the temple and its cleansing are mentioned summarily; as also His teaching there daily the chiefs of priest and people, With their desire to destroy Him but hardly knowing how, for all the people hung on Him to hear. In this passage it is even clearer that Jesus was referring to His second coming because He said the coming of the Son of Man. This means the illustration of the two men in the field or the two women grinding is not about the rapture. 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The Greek word (skandalon, G4625) is exactly the same word as the English scandal. Jesus said, "Were the ten not cleansed? He that filled with blessing the hearts devoted to Him in His life, was still blessing them when He was separated from them for heaven. The truth is, that our English version, excellent as it is, goes a little beyond the word of Luke; for our evangelist does not say "When he was come nigh unto Jericho," but "when he was nigh." It was an early error to suppose an impassible Christ. "Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high." 5. In modern days they manage things both more prudently and more effectually. Only this I would add. He had blessed, broken, and was giving the bread to them, when their eyes were opened, and they recognised their risen Lord. They could not understand Him, no matter how plain the words employed. So often, once a man has got what he wants, he never comes back. Luke 17:34 describes what will happen after the judgment. And so our Lord Jesus vindicates him. Of course, whenever He returns some people on earth will be sleeping and others will be awake. There was as yet no such privilege known as a purged worshipper having no more conscience of sins. This he had never suspected in himself before. The godly must not follow men's cries, but count on the Lord. And so our Lord breaks bread with the disciples. For they were eating, they were drinking, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. We see the people beholding, the rulers also with them sneering, the soldiers mocking with vulgar brutality, but Jesus dealing in ineffable grace with a justly crucified malefactor. In the common tragedy of their leprosy they had forgotten they were Jews and Samaritans and remembered only they were men in need. Many of us never even offer a grace before meat. The problem with the first interpretation is eagles are not a bird of prey, that is, upon the human bodies. Nothing of the sort. The Greek masculine gender could describe a man and his wife, however. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. It was a real work within: it was not merely a work ever so perfectly done outside. For--look you--the kingdom of God is within you. Hotels used to have rules like : no more than 5 men in one bed. [4.] Another cup was before Him. 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