Luke 19:41,42 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Bible Comments

Luke 19:41-42

I. In the case before us spiritual indifference was the sign of concealed ruin.

II. While spiritual indifference conceals the downward course of the soul's life, it at the same time hides the Christ who alone can save.

III. In spiritual indifference Christ saw: (1) A self-wrought ruin; (2) ruin rapidly becoming hopeless.

E. L. Hull, Sermons,3rd series, p. 181.

References: Luke 19:41; Luke 19:42. J. Vaughan, Sermons,7th series, p. 143; G. Calthrop, Pulpit Recollections,p. 86; C. Kingsley, Town and Country Sermons,p. 237; Church of England Pulpit,vol. vii., p. 238; Homilist,new series, vol. i., p. 522.Luke 19:41-44. H. W. Beecher, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xxix., p. 233; Ibid., Forty-eight Sermons,vol. i., p. 359. Luke 19:43; Luke 19:44. W. C. E. Newbolt, Counsels of Faith and Practice,p. 229.

Luke 19:41-42

41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

42 Saying,If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.