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

“ The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. ”

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

  See the notes at Matthew 11:12-14 . Every man - Many people, or multitudes. This is an expression that is very common, as when we say everybody is engaged in a piece of business, meaning that...

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• Luke 16:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (5) The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. (5) The Pharisees despised the excellency of the new covenant with res...

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• Luke 16:16 - 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...

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• Luke 16:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  The law . See note on Matthew 5:17 . since that time . since (Greek. apo. App-104.) then. the kingdom of God . See App-114. preached . Greek. euangelizo. See App-121. every man . Greek....

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

  Luke 16:16 . The Law and the Prophets were till John Our Lord had said that the earnestness of the people was a prelude to those things which the Prophets had foretold as to the future re...

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• Luke 16:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1548 PRESSING INTO THE KINGDOM Luke 16:16 . The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it . WHEREVER the Go...

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

  The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. The law and the prophets were until John - The law and the prophets continu...

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

  The law and the prophets were until John:— Our Lord having in the preceding verse developed the specious and hypocritical pretences of the Pharisees, observes to them, with respect to his own condu...

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

  The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. The Law and the Prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom...

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• Luke 16:16 - 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...

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

  The law and the prophets were until John. — See Notes on Matthew 11:14-15 . What had then been said to the disciples of the Baptist is now reproduced to our Lord’s own disciples and to the Pharise...

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• Luke 16:16 - 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...

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• Luke 16:16 - 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...

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

  (16) The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. (17) And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than one tittle...

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

  The law and the prophets were until John ,.... Till the time that John the Baptist began his ministry; for till then, the law and the prophets, with the Hagiographa, or holy writings, for into these...

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• Luke 16:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. Ver. 16. See Matthew 11:11 .

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

  The law and the prophets were in force until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached The gospel dispensation takes place, and humble, upright men, receive it with inexpressible earne...

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• Luke 16:16 - 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,...

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• Luke 16:16 - 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...

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

  We had the sum of these words: See Poole on " Matthew 11:12 " and See Poole on " Matthew 11:13 " . The connection of these words in this place seems to be this: Do not think it strange that I prea...

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

  Jesus Replies to The Mockery of the Pharisees Directed At His Ideas About Wealth (16:14-18). The Pharisees had been listening in to his advice to His disciples and they derided Him. For in their e...

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• Luke 16:16 - 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...

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• Luke 16:16 - Scofield Reference Notes

  the kingdom ( See Scofield) - ( Matthew 11:12 ).

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• Luke 16:16 - 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...

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• Luke 16:16 - 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...

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• Luke 16:16 - 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...

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

  A lesson concerning covetousness.

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• Luke 16:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 3:18 ; Acts 3:24 ; Acts 3:25 ; John 1:45 ; John 11:48 ; John 12:19 ; Luke 10:11 ; Luke 10:9 ; Luke 7:26-29 ; Luke 9:2 ; Luke 16:29 ; Luke 16:31 ; Mark 1:14 ; Mark 1:45 ; Matthew 1...

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• Luke 16:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The law and the prophets were in force until John: from that time the Gospel takes place; and humble upright men receive it with inexpressible earnestness. Matthew 11:13 .

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