Luke 16:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. ”

Luke 16:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They derided him - The fact that they were “covetous” is here stated as the reason why they derided him, or, as it is literally, “they turned up the nose at him.” They contemned or despised the d...
Luke 16:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Words to Pharisees. Luke 16:14 f. Lk. only. The verses seem introduced by Lk. to indicate that the preceding and succeeding parables were directed against Pharisees. They also illustrate his ant...
Luke 16:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the Pharisees . See App-120. were . being then. Greek. huparcho, as in Luke 16:23 , and see on Luke 7:25 . covetous . money-lovers (referring to mammon, verses: 11, 13); Occurs only here,...
Luke 16:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

14. And the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things. They who imagine that Christ was ridiculed by the Pharisees, because he chose to employ a plain and familiar style, and m...
Luke 16:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. They derided him - Or rather, They treated him with the utmost contempt. So we may translate the original word...
Luke 16:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And they derided him.— The original word is very emphatical; εξεμυκτηριζον : "They mocked him by a scornful motion of the mouth and nose,"—as well as by what they spake to him. The word might be re...
Luke 16:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. х exeemukt...
Luke 16:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Unjust Steward. The Rich Man and Lazarus 1-13. Parable of the Unjust Steward (peculiar to Lk). The details of this somewhat difficult parable are probably not significant. It is intended to il...
Luke 16:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous. — The words are important as showing that they had been listening during the previous parable, and that the words, though addressed to the disciples, had...
Luke 16:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Look into the Future Luke 16:14-31 Here was a flagrant case of heartless indifference, amid luxuries of every kind, to the daily spectacle of abject need. Most of us have at least one Lazarus...
Luke 16:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The Master had a lesson to teach His disciples on the subject of earthly wealth, and He made use of this unjust steward for purposes of illustration only. The element in the action of the steward whi...
Luke 16:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(14) And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him. (15) And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts;...
Luke 16:14 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

GODS WAYS AND MEN’S WAYS ‘And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided Him. And He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God k...
Luke 16:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Pharisees also who were covetous ,.... Or lovers of money, the love of which is the root of all evil; and that they were, is evident from their devouring widows' houses, under a pretence of...
Luke 16:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. Ver. 14. And they derided him ] Gr. εξεμυκτηριζον, they blew their noses at him in scorn and derision. The...
Luke 16:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Pharisees, who were covetous Of a very worldly spirit; heard all these things Namely, concerning the true use of riches, and the impossibility of men's serving God and mammon at the same time...
Luke 16:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

A PARABLE AS TO THE USE OF THE MASTER'S GOODS (vs.1-13) Now the Lord turned to address His disciples. For though it is pure grace that saves and finds deep delight in the repentance of a sinner,...
Luke 16:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Unjust Steward. 1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accu...
Luke 16:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Concerning the Pharisees covetousness we have often heard before; and indeed they were so from this principle, that none but the rich were happy and blessed, and that all poor people were cursed, 1...
Luke 16:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.' The Pharisees scoffed at His ideas (literally ‘turned up their noses at Him'). When Luke says that it...
Luke 16:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Luke 16:14-18 . In this section, the connection of which with the preceding and following parables is not at first sight apparent, we have evidently the heads of a discourse addres...
Luke 16:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Luke 16:14 Consider the conduct of the Pharisees, whose weak point had been touched by our Lord's teaching; they adopted the fool's course of mocking at that which they could not deny to be true,...
Luke 16:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 16:1 . A certain rich man had a steward accused that he had wasted his goods. After the parable of the prodigal son, we have a second, of a prodigal steward, who had wasted his lord's propert...
Luke 16:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

The Pharisees also, who were covetous Lovers of money Those “lovers of money” heard what things? As rulers of the people they heard the parable of the “unjust steward,” and their own doom as m...
Luke 16:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Luke 16:1-42 The Lord ' s teaching on the right use of earthly possessions with regard to the prospect of another world, in the form of the two parables of the unjust steward, a...
Luke 16:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A lesson concerning covetousness.
Luke 16:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 22:25-29 ; Ezekiel 33:31 ; Hebrews 11:36 ; Hebrews 12:2 ; Hebrews 12:3 ; Isaiah 53:3 ; Isaiah 56:11 ; Jeremiah 20:7 ; Jeremiah 20:8 ; Jeremiah 6:13 ; Jeremiah 8:10 ; Luke 12:15 ;...

Luke 16:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Luke 16:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 16:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Luke 16:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 16:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Luke 16:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Luke 16:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Luke 16:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 16:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Luke 16:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Luke 16:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Luke 16:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Luke 16:14 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Luke 16:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Luke 16:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Luke 16:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 16:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 16:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Luke 16:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Luke 16:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 16:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Luke 16:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Luke 16:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luke 16:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Luke 16:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Luke 16:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Luke 16:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge