Luke 10

Luke 10:4

Yet let not that deter you, or put you upon making provisions beforehand for your journey: and as you go, spend no time in civilities with any, intend and mind that one business you go about. ‘any to whom peace properly belongs, any pious person, called by an Hebraism the son of peace, (as the wicked apostate traitor is the son of perdition, John xvii. 12,) any pliable person capable of the blessing of the gospel dwell there, your peace shall rest—

Luke 10:13

Woe unto you, ye cities of Jewry, among whom so many miracles have been shewn to work faith in you, and so to bring you to repentance, and all in vain! had the like been done in heathen cities near you, they in all likelihood would have been wrought on by them.

Luke 10:14

And accordingly their portion in the vengeance approaching shall be more supportable than yours.

Luke 10:16

The not hearkening to your preaching, the despising of these warnings of yours is the despising of me that have sent you, and so of God that sent me, and hath destined this only means to avert his judgments from the world, and shall accordingly bring all vengeance upon the Jews on their refusal.

Luke 10:17

And when the seventy returned, they came to Christ and told him with great joy, that although it was not part of their commission, ver. 9, yet they having used his name (as afterward, Acts xix. 13.) against devils, it thrived with them, the devils were subject to do what they bid them.

Luke 10:18

And he said to them, Wonder not at that; for it is determined that within a while the prince of devils shall be dethroned, and fall from his great unlimited power in the world, as lightning when it flasheth and vanisheth doth, that is, come to nothing, never recollect again.

Luke 10:19

I bestow upon you a power to cast out devils, and to be above any harm that any the most noxious creature, which the devil may use as his instrument, can do unto you.

l you are children and heirs of God, set in that right way, in which as many of you as shall continue shall inherit eternal life. See note [a] on Phil. iv., and note [b] on Rev. iii.

Luke 10:21

Matt. xi. 25.

m this is an act of thine infinite wisdom and mercy and condescension to the weakness of men, mixed with all justice toward the proud contemners.

Luke 10:22

I come not in mine own, but my Father’s name; all my power is delivered to me by him, and so my doctrine also; and no man—

Luke 10:24

Matt. xiii. 17.

° a student of the law came to try what his judgment was about the law, or rule of life, and asked him what was necessary to be observed to the attaining that eternal life which Christ promised. And he answered him, The very same which in the law of Moses is set down as the main substantial part of the law, which he therefore bid him recite unto him.

Luke 10:27

And he recited out of Deut. vi. 5, the known summary of the law, Thou shalt love—

P the due performance of this is all that I now require of thee to salvation.

Luke 10:29

But he willing to set out his own perfections, and being confident of his having performed the first part, the duties toward God, by the exact observance of the ceremonies of the law, made no question concerning that; but for the second, the love of the neighbour, he proposed that other question, Who are contained under that title of neighbour?

Luke 10:30

This question Jesus thought best to answer by a parable, saying, A certain man—

Luke 10:31

And a certain priest, without any knowledge of what had happened, at the same time went that way, and saw him, and would take no pity on him.

⁹ coming thither in his passage, stayed so long as to see what condition he was in, and having done, left him without any compassion.

[a] by chance] The word συγκυρία signifies literally concurrence, when two things fall out together. Συγκυρεῖ, (it should be συγκυρία,) συντυχία, saith Hesychius, and Συγκύρημα, συντύχημα, (not with any respect to τύχη, fortuna, but from τυγχάνω, sum, the word signifying being, and no more.) So places that lie together are called συγκυροῦντα, Num. xxi. 25. and xxxv. 3, and Deut. ii. 37, according to the notion of the simple Κυρῶ, τυγχάνω, saith Hesychius, and Κυρεῖ, ὑπάρχει, and Κυρία, ἡ κατὰ φύσιν ὑπάρχουσα δύναμις. And then the rendering will be most exactly thus: And the same time it fell out that a certain priest came down that way; according to Calcidius’s definition of fortune, that it is concursus simul cadentium causarum duum, originem ex proposito trahentium, ex quo concursu provenit aliquid præter spe cum admiratione, “a concurrence of two causes falling together, having their beginning from counsel, from which concurrence something proceeds besides hope with

Luke 10:33

But though the priest and the Levite, which were his countrymen, or fellow-Jews, were not so compassionate, yet a Samaritan, which was not so, being of an Assyrian extraction, (see John iv. 20,) and one whose religion separated him from the Jews, (John iv. 9, and Luke ix. 53,) was not so hardhearted, but as soon as he saw him—

washed his wounds, applied healing things to them, and then bound them up cleanly, as surgeons are wont, and set him—

⁶ See note [i] on Matt. ix.

⁷ Take that for an answer to thy question, Who is thy neighbour? ver. 29. For every person that is in want of thy relief, although he be to thee as a Jew to a Samaritan, upon terms of absolute separation and hostility toward thee, must be looked on by thee as the object of thy compassion and mercy, and of any charity of thine of which he is capable, Matt. v. 43, 44.

⁶ Or, upon occasion.