Luke 13:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then said he,Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? ”

• Luke 13:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  See these parables explained in the notes at Matthew 13:31-32 .

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• Luke 13:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  A Woman Healed on the Sabbath. (Lk. only; cf. Luke 6:1-11 ). Loisy is too fanciful in connecting this section with what precedes by suggesting that as the barren tree stands for unrepentant Isra...

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• Luke 13:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Then said He, &c. Repeated with variations from Matthew 13:31 , &c. Unto what... ? Compare Isaiah 40:18 . the kingdom of God . App-114.

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• Luke 13:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? The kingdom - is like a grain of mustard seed - See on Matthew 13:31 (note).

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• Luke 13:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? For the exposition of this portion, see the notes at Matthew 13:31-33 , with Remarks.

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• Luke 13:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Galileans killed by Pilate. The Unfruitful Fig Tree. Lament Over Jerusalem 1-9. Three exhortations to repentance, of which the former two are based on recent events, and the third is a parable...

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• Luke 13:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (18-21) Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? — See Notes on Matthew 13:31-33 . The first impression with most readers, in the absence of any apparent trace of sequence, is that we h...

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• Luke 13:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Penalty of Neglected Opportunity Luke 13:18-30 Notice here the inward movement and the outward effect of the gospel whether in the heart or in the world of men. The garden and the kitchen,...

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• Luke 13:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Someone brought to our Lord an account of a happening which seemed to suggest that those who suffered catastrophe are proved to be "sinners above all." He directly contradicted that view, and in that...

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• Luke 13:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great t...

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• Luke 13:18 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE GOSPEL IN THE WORLD ‘Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed.’ Luke 13:18-19 The parable of the mustard seed is intend...

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• Luke 13:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then said he, unto what is the kingdom of God like ?.... The same with the kingdom of heaven, in Matthew 13:31 and so the Ethiopic version reads it here, "and whereunto shall I resemble it?" of th...

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• Luke 13:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? Ver. 18. See Mark 4:30,31 .

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• Luke 13:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? After the Lord had thus silenced the ruler of the synagogue, and while he observed the rejoicings of the people, he reflected with pleasure on th...

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• Luke 13:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  REPENT OR PERISH (vs.1-9) This chapter shows that righteousness by itself provides no hope for man, but presses upon us the solemn lesson of repentance. Thus it prepares the way for Chapter s 14...

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• Luke 13:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Widow of Nain.       18 Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?   19 It is like a grai...

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• Luke 13:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 18-21. See Poole on " Matthew 13:31 " , and following verses to Matthew 13:33 . They are two parables by which Christ foretells the great success of the gospel, notwithstanding the present s...

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• Luke 13:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘He said therefore, “To what is the Kingly Rule of God like? and to what shall I liken it?” Note how the ‘therefore' connects these illustration of the Kingly Rule of God with the previous passage....

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• Luke 13:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Luke 13:19 . Like a grain of mustard seed .—So small in size as to be a proverbial comparison among the Jews for anything exceedingly small. Garden .— Matthew 13:31 has “field....

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• Luke 13:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Luke 13:6 . 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. It was a fig tree, a fruit-bearing tree by prof...

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• Luke 13:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Luke 13:1 . There were some present at that season of the passover, that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. Though this might be blood for blood,...

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• Luke 13:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Unto what is the kingdom of God like? On the kingdom of God The kingdom of God is an expression of various significations in the sacred volume. Sometimes is meant by it the universal dominion o...

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• Luke 13:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Luke 13:1-42 Signs of the times. The Lord continues his solemn warnings. Israel pictured in the parable of the barren fig tree. Luke 13:1 There were present at that sea...

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• Luke 13:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Then said He, Unto what is the kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it?

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• Luke 13:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Lamentations 2:13 ; Luke 17:21 ; Luke 13:20 ; Luke 7:31 ; Mark 4:26 ; Mark 4:30 ; Matthew 13:31

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• Luke 13:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Matthew 13:31 ; Mark 4:30 .

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