Luke 19:48 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him. ”

• Luke 19:48 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Could not find ... - Were not able to accomplish their purpose; they did not know “how” to bring it about. Very attentive - literally, “hung upon him” to hear him. The word denotes an anxious...

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• Luke 19:48 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Cleansing of the Temple ( Mark 11:15-19 *, Matthew 21:12 f.*). Lk. abbreviates; only the sellers are ejected. Jesus teaches daily in the Temple, a statement repeated at Luke 20:1 and Luke...

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• Luke 19:48 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  very attentive to hear Him . hanging on Him, listening.

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• Luke 19:48 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him. Were very attentive to hear him - Or, They heard him with the utmost attention, εξεκρεματο αυτου ακουων, lit...

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• Luke 19:48 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  All the people were very attentive to hear him.— They hung as it were on his lips while he spake, is the literal import of the original. Inferences drawn from the history of Zaccheus, Luke 1...

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• Luke 19:48 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him. And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him, х exekr...

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• Luke 19:48 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Zacceleus. The Pounds. Christ's Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. He Cleanses the Temple 1-10. Zacchaeus (peculiar to Lk). The narrative shows that our Lord's familiar intercourse with publicans and...

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• Luke 19:48 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (45-48) And he went into the temple. — See Notes on Matthew 21:12-17 ; Mark 11:15-19 . St. Luke apparently agrees with St. Matthew in thinking of the expulsion of the money-changers as taking pla...

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• Luke 19:48 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Doom of the Royal City Luke 19:41-48 Our Lord loved the city of His race; and when it finally rejected His appeals, He knew that nothing could avert its downfall. Hence His tears! Each nati...

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• Luke 19:48 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Zacchaeus was the last convert but one in the ministry of Jesus. Our Lord's method with him is very revealing. He asked for his hospitality, and after receiving it held an unrecorded conversation wit...

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• Luke 19:48 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves...

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• Luke 19:48 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And could not find what they might do ,.... The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, and so Beza's most ancient copy, add, "to him"; they could not find an opportunity of seizing him, nor a...

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• Luke 19:48 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him. Ver. 48. Were very attentive to hear him ] Gr. εξεκρεματο, hanged on him, as the bee doth on the flower,...

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• Luke 19:48 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And he went into the temple See notes on Matthew 21:12-14 ; Mark 11:11 ; Mark 11:18 . And he taught daily in the temple Jesus, being now to remain but a short time upon earth, employed himself...

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• Luke 19:48 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ZACCHAEUS RECEIVING THE LORD JESUS (vs.1-10) There was yet another man to be rescued from Jericho, the city of the curse ( Joshua 6:26 ). The Lord, in faithful grace, passed through that city, an...

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• Luke 19:48 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Doom of Jerusalem Lamented; The Doom of Jerusalem Foretold.       41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,...

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• Luke 19:48 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Luke 19:48 "

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• Luke 19:48 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And they could not find what they might do, for the people all hung upon him, listening.' However they were prevented from open action because all the people were eager to hear His teaching and saw...

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• Luke 19:48 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Luke 19:28 . Went before .— I.e. , at the head of the disciples. Cf. Mark 10:32 . Ascending .—The road from Jericho to Jerusalem is one long ascent. Luke 19:29 . Bethphage .—...

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• Luke 19:48 - Scofield Reference Notes

  were very attentive Or, hanged on him.

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• Luke 19:48 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Luke 19:1-5 . And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. And he sought to see Jesus who he...

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• Luke 19:48 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Luke 19:11 . He spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, to correct the fond error of those who thought he would reign on earth. This parable therefore differs from that of the talents,...

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• Luke 19:48 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Luke 19:1-42 Jesus lodges in the house of Zacchaeus, " the chief among the publicans " at Jericho. This episode, which took place at Jericho just before the Lord's entry in...

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• Luke 19:48 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The purging of the Temple:

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• Luke 19:48 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 16:14 ; John 7:46-49 ; Luke 20:19 ; Luke 20:20 ; Luke 22:2-4 ; Matthew 22:15 ; Matthew 22:16 ; Nehemiah 8:3

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