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New Testament ,
The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ,
According To Luke Chapter 13
1 Of the Galileans,
and those that were slain under Siloam.
6 The fig tree that bare no fruit.
11 The woman vexed with the spirit
of infirmity, that is, with a disease
brought on her by Satan, is healed.
19 The parable of the grain
of a mustard seed.
21 Of leaven.
23 How few shall be saved.
31 Herod that Fox.
1 There (1) were certain men present at the
same season, that shewed him of the
Galileans, whose blood (a) Pilate had
(*) mingled with their sacrifices.
(1) We must not rejoice at the just
punishment of others, but rather be
instructed thereby to repentance.
(a) Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea,
almost ten years, and about the fourth year
of his government, which might be about the
fifteenth year of Tiberius' reign, Christ
finished the work of our redemption by his
death.
(*) He murdered them as they were
sacrificing; and so their blood was mingled
with the blood of the beasts which were
sacrificed.
2 And Jesus answered, and said unto them,
Suppose ye, that these Galileans were
(*) greater sinners than all the other
Galileans, because they have suffered such
things?
(*) For the Jews took occasion hereby to
condemn them as most wicked men.
3 I tell you, nay, but except (*) ye amend
your lives, ye shall all likewise perish.
(*) He warneth them rather to consider their
own estate, than to reprove other men's.
4 Or think you that those eighteen, upon
whom the tower in (b) (*) Siloam fell, and
slew them, were () sinners above all men
that dwell in Jerusalem?
(b) To wit, in the place, or river; for Siloam
was a small river, from whence the conduits
of the city came, whereof
John 9:7; Isaiah 8:6;
and therefore it was a tower or castle, built
upon the conduit side, which fell down
suddenly, and killed some.
(*) Which tower stood by the river Siloe or
fishpool in Jerusalem.
() Or, debtors.
5 I tell you, nay, but except ye amend your
lives, ye shall all likewise perish.
6 ¶ (2) He spake also this parable, A certain
man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard;
and he came and sought fruit thereon, and
found none.
(2) Great and long suffering is the patience of
God, but yet so that at length he executed the
judgment.
7 Then said he to the dresser of his vineyard,
Behold, (*) this three years have I come and
sought fruit of this fig tree, and find none,
() cut it down, why keepeth it () also the
ground (c) barren?
(*) By this similitude is declared the great
patience that God useth toward sinners in
looking for their amendment; but this delay
availeth them nothing, when they still remain
in their corruption.
() We see our state, if we bring not forth
fruit.
() For both it is unfruitful itself, and doeth hurt
to the ground where it groweth.
(c) Maketh the ground barren in that part,
which otherwise were good for vines.
8 And he answered, and said unto him, Lord,
let it alone this year also, till I dig round about
it, and dung it.
9 And if it bear fruit, well; if not, then after
thou shalt cut it down.
10 ¶ (3) And he taught in one of the
Synagogues on the Sabbath day.
(3) Christ came to deliver us from the bands
of Satan.
11 And behold, there was a woman which
had a (d) (*) spirit of infirmity eighteen years,
and was () bowed together, and could not lift
up herself in any wise.
(d) Troubled with a disease which Satan
brought.
(*) Whom Satan had stricken with a disease,
as the spirit of covetousness is that spirit, that
maketh a man covetous.
() As they are whose sinews are shrunk.
12 When Jesus saw her, he called her to him,
and said to her, Woman, thou art (e)
(*) loosed from thy disease.
(e) For Satan had the woman bound, as if she
had been in chains, insomuch that for eighteen
years space she could not hold up her head.
(*) Or, set at liberty out of Satan's bands.
13 And he laid his hands on her, and
immediately she was made straight again, and
glorified God.
14 (4) And the (f) ruler of the Synagogue
answered with indignation, because that Jesus
healed on the Sabbath day, and said unto the
people, There are six days in which men
ought to work; in them therefore come and be
healed, and not on the Sabbath day.
(4) A lively image of hypocrisy, and reward
thereof.
(f) One of the rulers of the Synagogue, for it
appeareth by
Mark 5:22 and Acts 13:15;
that there were many rulers of the Synagogue.
15 Then answered him the Lord, and said,
Hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the
Sabbath day loose his ox or his ass from the
stall, and lead him away to the water?
16 And ought not this daughter of Abraham,
whom Satan had bound, lo, eighteen years, be
loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?
17 And when he said these things, all his
adversaries were ashamed; but all the people
rejoiced at all the excellent things that were
done by him.
18 ¶ (*) Then said he, What is the () kingdom
of God like? Or whereto shall I compare it?
(*) Matthew 13:31; Mark 4:31 .
() By these similitudes he sheweth the
increase, whereby God augmenteth his
kingdom, contrary to all men's opinions.
19 (5) It is like a grain of mustard seed, which
a man took and sowed in his garden, and it
grew, and waxed a great tree, and the fowls
of the heaven made nests in the branches
thereof.
(5) God beginneth his kingdom with small
beginnings, that the unlooked for proceeding
of it may better set forth his power.
20 ¶ (*) And again he said, Whereunto shall I
liken the kingdom of God?
(*) Matthew 13:33 .
21 It is like leaven, which a woman took, and
hid in three pecks of flour, till all was
leavened.
22 ¶ (*) (6) And he went through all cities
and towns, teaching, and journeying towards
Jerusalem.
(*) Matthew 9:35; Mark 6:6 .
(6) Against them which had rather err with
many, than go right with a few, and by that
means through their own slowness, are shut
out of the kingdom of God.
23 Then said one unto him, Lord, are there
few that shall be saved? And he said unto
them,
24 (*) () Strive to enter in at the strait gate;
for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in,
and shall not be able.
(*) Matthew 7:13 .
() We must endeavor and cut off all
impediments, which may let us.
25 When the good man of the house is risen
up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to
stand without, and to knock at the door,
saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and he shall
answer and say unto you, I know you not
whence ye are.
26 (7) (*) Then shall ye begin to say, We
have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and
thou hast taught in our streets.
(7) He is in vain in the Church, which is not
of the Church, which thing the cleanness of
life sheweth.
(*) He warnest the Jews, that they deprive
not themselves by their own negligence or
that salvation which was offered unto them.
27 (*) But he shall say,
I tell you, I know you not whence ye are;
depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
(*) Matthew 7:23; Matthew 15:41;
Psalm 6:8 .
28 (8) There shall be weeping and gnashing
of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and
Isaac, and Jacob, and all the Prophets in the
kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out at
doors.
(8) The casting off of the Jews, and the calling
of the Gentiles is foretold.
29 Then shall come many from the (g)
(*) East, and from the West, and from the
North, and from the South, and shall sit at
Table in the kingdom of God.
(g) From all the quarters of the world, and
these are four of the chiefest.
(*) The people which then were strangers.
30 (*) And behold, () there are last, which
shall be first, and there are first, which shall
be last.
(*) Matthew 19:30; Matthew 20:16;
Mark 10:31 .
() Christ cutteth off the vain confidence of
the Jews who glorified in that, that God had
chosen them for his people; yet they obeyed
him not according to his word.
31 (9) The same day there came certain
Pharisees, and said unto him, Depart, and go
hence, for Herod will kill thee.
(9) We must go forward in the case of our
calling, through the midst of terrors, whether
they be true or feigned.
32 Then said he unto them, Go ye and tell
that (h) fox, Behold, I (*) cast out devils, and
will heal still (i) () today, and tomorrow, and
the third day () I shall be (k) () perfected.
(h) That deceitful and treacherous man.
(*) Neither the envy of the Pharisees, who
would have put him in fear of Herode, nor
yet any policy of man could stay him from
that office which God had enjoined him.
(i) That is, a small time, and Theophylact
saith, it is a proverb; or else, by Today, we
may understand the time that now is, and by
Tomorrow, the time to come, meaning
thereby all the time of his ministry and office.
() Meaning a little while.
() By Christ's death we are made perfect
forever.
(k) To wit, when the sacrifice for sin is
ended.
() Or, make an end.
33 (10) Nevertheless I must walk today, and
tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot
be that a Prophet (*) should perish out of
Jerusalem.
(10) There are nowhere more cruel enemies
of the godly, than they which are within the
Sanctuary and Church itself; but God seeth it,
and will in his time have an account of it.
(*) He noteth their malice which by all means
sought his death more than did the tyrant, of
whom they willed him to beware.
34 (*) O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest
the Prophets, and stonest them that are sent
to thee, how often would I have gathered thy
children together, as the hen gathereth her
(l) brood under her wings, and ye would not!
(*) Matthew 23:37 .
(l) Word for word, the nest; now the brood of
chickens is the nest.
35 Behold, your (*) house is left unto you
desolate; and verily I tell you, ye shall not see
me until the time come that ye shall say,
() Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of
the Lord.
(*) Christ forewarneth them of the
destruction of the Temple, and of their whole
policy.
() When your own conscience shall reprove
you and cause you to confess that which ye
now deny, which shall be when you shall see
me in my majesty.
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