Luke 11:52 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.e ”

Luke 11:52 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Woe unto you, lawyers! - See the notes at Matthew 23:13 . The key of knowledge - A key is made to open a lock or door. By their false interpretation of the Old Testament they had taken away...
Luke 11:52 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(16) Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have (n) taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. (16) Those who ought to be the door keepers of...
Luke 11:52 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Condemnation of Pharisees and Scribes. Cf. (though the arrangement is different) Matthew 23*, where the Jerusalem setting is more suitable (perhaps Lk. wishes to make the Jerusalem discourses end...
Luke 11:52 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

key. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for entrance to and acquirement of knowledge. Compare Malachi 2:8 . hindered . forbade, as in Luke 9:49 .
Luke 11:52 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. Ye have taken away the key of knowledge - By your traditi...
Luke 11:52 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For ye have taken away the key, &c.— Vitringa understands this of one fundamental truth, which would have led them into the knowledge of the rest: but all their endeavours to embarrass and bi...
Luke 11:52 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. And the Lord said unto him, Now do...
Luke 11:52 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Lord's Prayer. The Sign of Jonah 1-4. The Lord's Prayer ( Matthew 6:9-15 ). See on Mt. If the Lord's Prayer was given only once, St. Luke is probably right as to the occasion. His version, how...
Luke 11:52 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Woe unto you, lawyers! — The “woe” in this case is uttered against those who were, by their very calling, the professed interpreters of the Law. Its form rests on the fact that each scribe or “doct...
Luke 11:52 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Searching Words for Hypocrites Luke 11:45-54 The minute oral and written rules promulgated by the Hebrew religious leaders overlaid and almost buried under their weight the simple Mosaic code....
Luke 11:52 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Watching the Master at prayer, His disciples were inspired with a desire to pray, and requested that they be taught. He responded to them in a fourfold statement. First, He gave them a model. Then He...
Luke 11:52 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(42) But, woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgement, and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. (4...
Luke 11:52 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Woe unto you lawyers ,.... Who are particularly addressed again in distinction from the Pharisees, though much the same things are said to them both in Matthew 23:13 for ye have taken away the k...
Luke 11:52 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. Ver. 52. Woe unto you, lawyers ] I see well, said fat...
Luke 11:52 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wo unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge Ye have obscured and destroyed the true knowledge of the Messiah, which is the key both of the present and the future kingdom of he...
Luke 11:52 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Valuable Instruction as to Prayer (vs.1-13) As this chapter opens the Lord Jesus was exemplifying the character of dependent communion with His Father (that character that He commended in Mary)....
Luke 11:52 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Woes Denounced on That Generation; The Pharisees and Lawyers Reproved. 37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine...
Luke 11:52 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew saith, Matthew 23:13 , for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men, &c. I take the sense of these words to be, You have taken away knowledge, which is the key by which men enter...
Luke 11:52 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Woeful State of Those Whose Light Is Darkness, And Who Therefore Come Under His Woes (11:37-52). But sadly there are those whose eyes turn away from the light. Instead of their eyes being fixe...
Luke 11:52 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Luke 11:37 . Besought .—Simply, “asked” (R.V.). To dine .—Rather, “that He would breakfast with him.” The word used means a noon-day meal = our late breakfast or luncheon. Lu...
Luke 11:52 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Luke 11:14-15 . And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devi...
Luke 11:52 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 11:1 . Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. The disciples of John were eminent for fasting and prayer; and though the prayers of the jews were good, yet they were not ex...
Luke 11:52 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ye have taken away the key of knowledge The sin of perverting Scripture The last woe pronounced by our Saviour against the Scribes and Pharisees, is for perverting the Holy Scriptures, and keep...
Luke 11:52 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Luke 11:1-42 The Lord ' s teaching on the subject of prayer. Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of time or place enables us to fix the scene...
Luke 11:52 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The last woe and its effect:
Luke 11:52 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 4:17 ; Acts 4:18 ; Acts 5:40 ; John 7:47-52 ; John 9:24-34 ; Luke 19:39 ; Luke 19:40 ; Malachi 2:7 ; Matthew 23:13
Luke 11:52 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ye have taken away the key of knowledge — Ye have obscured and destroyed the knowledge of the Messiah, which is the key of both the present and the future kingdom of heaven; the kingdom of grace an...

Luke 11:52 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Luke 11:52 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Luke 11:52 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 11:52 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Luke 11:52 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Luke 11:52 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Luke 11:52 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Luke 11:52 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 11:52 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Luke 11:52 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Luke 11:52 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Luke 11:52 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Luke 11:52 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Luke 11:52 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Luke 11:52 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 11:52 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 11:52 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Luke 11:52 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Luke 11:52 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 11:52 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Luke 11:52 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Luke 11:52 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 11:52 - The Biblical Illustrator

Luke 11:52 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Luke 11:52 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Luke 11:52 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 11:52 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes