Luke 5
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Luke 5:12-16 . LEPER HEALED.
15. But so, &c.--(See Mark 1:45 ).
Luke 5:17-26 . PARALYTIC HEALED.
17. Pharisees and doctors . . . sitting by--the highest testimony yet borne to our Lord's growing influence, and the necessity increasingly felt by the ecclesiastics throughout the country of coming to some definite judgment regarding Him.
power of the Lord . . . present--with Jesus.
to heal them--the sick people.
19. housetop--the flat roof.
through the tiling . . . before
24. take up thy couch--"sweet saying! The bed had borne the man; now the man shall bear the bed!" [BENGEL].
Luke 5:27-32 . LEVI'S CALL AND FEAST.
Mark 2:14 .)24. take up thy couch--"sweet saying! The bed had borne the man; now the man shall bear the bed!" [BENGEL].
Luke 5:27-32 . LEVI'S CALL AND FEAST.
30. their scribes--a mode of expression showing that Luke was writing for Gentiles.
Luke 5:33-39 . FASTING.
The incongruities mentioned in Luke 5:36-38 were intended to illustrate the difference between the genius of the old and new economies, and the danger of mixing up the one with the other. As in the one case supposed, "the rent is made worse," and in the other, "the new wine is spilled," so by a mongrel mixture of the ascetic ritualism of the old with the spiritual freedom of the new economy, both are disfigured and destroyed. The additional parable in Luke 5:39 , which is peculiar to Luke, has been variously interpreted. But the "new wine" seems plainly to be the evangelical freedom which Christ was introducing; and the old, the opposite spirit of Judaism: men long accustomed to the latter could not be expected "straightway"--all at once--to take a liking for the former; that is, "These inquiries about the difference between My disciples and the Pharisees," and even John's, are not surprising; they are the effect of a natural revulsion against sudden change, which time will cure; the new wine will itself in time become old, and so acquire all the added charms of antiquity. What lessons does this teach, on the one hand, to those who unreasonably cling to what is getting antiquated; and, on the other, to hasty reformers who have no patience with the timidity of their weaker brethren!