Luke 19
WesleyLuke 19:6
The kingdom of God cometh not with observation - With such outward pomp as draws the observation of every one.
Luke 19:7
Neither shall they say, Lo here, or lo there - This shall not be the language of those who are, or shall be sent by me, to declare the coming of my kingdom. For behold the kingdom of God is within or among you - Look not for it in distant times or remote places: it is now in the midst of you: it is come: it is present in the soul of every true believer: it is a spiritual kingdom, an internal principle. Wherever it exists, it exists in the heart.
Luke 19:8
Ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man - One day of mercy. or one day wherein you might converse with me, as you do now.
Luke 19:9
They shall say, See, Christ is here, or there - Limiting his presence to this or that place. Matthew 24:23.
Luke 19:10
So shall also the Son of man be - So swift, so wide, shall his appearing be: In his day - The last day.
Luke 19:12
The days of the Son of man - Those which immediately follow that which is eminently styled his day. Matthew 24:37.
Luke 19:17
In that day - (Which will be the grand type of the last day) when ye shall see Jerusalem encompassed with armies.
Luke 19:18
Remember Lot’s wife - And escape with all speed, without ever looking behind you. Luke 9:24; John 12:25.
Luke 19:19
The sense of this and the following verses is, Yet as great as the danger will be, do not seek to save your life by violating your conscience: if you do, you will surely lose it: whereas if you should lose it for my sake, you shall be paid with life everlasting. But the most probable way of preserving it now, is to be always ready to give it up: a peculiar Providence shall then watch over you, and put a difference between you and other men.
Luke 19:23
Luke 19:25
He spake a parable to them - This and the following parable warn us against two fatal extremes, with regard to prayer: the former against faintness and weariness, the latter against self confidence.
Luke 19:31
And shall not God - The most just Judge, vindicate his own elect - Preserve the Christians from all their adversaries, and in particular save them out of the general destruction, and avenge them of the Jews? Though he bear long with them - Though he does not immediately put an end, either to the wrongs of the wicked, or the sufferings of good men.
Luke 19:32
Yet when the Son of man cometh, will he find faith upon earth - Yet notwithstanding all the instances both of his long suffering and of his justice, whenever he shall remarkably appear, against their enemies in this age or in after ages, how few true believers will be found upon earth!
Luke 19:33
He spake this parable - Not to hypocrites; the Pharisee here mentioned was no hypocrite, no more than an outward adulterer: but he sincerely trusted in himself that he was righteous, and accordingly told God so, in the prayer which none but God heard.
Luke 19:36
I fast twice in the week - So did all the strict Pharisees: every Monday and Thursday. I give tithes of all that I possess - Many of them gave one full tenth of their income in tithes, and another tenth in alms. the sum of this plea is, I do no harm: I use all the means of grace: I do all the good I can.
Luke 19:37
The publican standing afar off - From the holy of holies, would not so much as lift up his eyes to heaven - Touched with shame, which is more ingenuous than fear.
Luke 19:38
This man went down - From the hill on which the temple stood, justified rather than the other - That is, and not the other.
Luke 19:39
Luke 19:40
Calling them - Those that brought the children: of such is the kingdom of God - Such are subjects of the Messiah’s kingdom. And such as these it properly belongs to.
Luke 19:42
Luke 19:44
Exodus 20:12, &c.
Luke 19:46
Yet lackest thou one thing - Namely, to love God more than mammon. Our Saviour knew his heart, and presently put him upon a trial which laid it open to the ruler himself. And to cure his love of the world, which could not in him be cured otherwise, Christ commanded him to sell all that he had. But he does not command us to do this; but to use all to the glory of God.