Lukas 6:46

46 And why do you call me Adoni and yet you do not do what I say?

Lukas 6:46 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 6:46

And why call ye me Lord, Lord
Or, "my Lord, my Lord", as the Syriac version renders it; acknowledging, in words, his government over them; claiming an interest in him, and making use of his name and authority:

and do not the things which I say;
or "command"; and therefore such words in their mouths would be of no use to them, since they neither did his Father's will, which he taught them, nor observed his commands and ordinances which he enjoined them; and therefore should not enter into the kingdom of heaven, nor be owned by him another day, but should be bid to depart from him; (See Gill on Matthew 7:21). (See Gill on Matthew 7:22). (See Gill on Matthew 7:23).

Lukas 6:46 In-Context

44 For each etz by its own pri will be known. For not from thorns do they gather figs nor from a thorn bush do they pick grapes.

45 The ish tov from the good storehouse of the lev produces tov, and the ish rah out of the evil storehouse produces rah. For from the abundance of the lev the peh (mouth) speaks.

46 And why do you call me Adoni and yet you do not do what I say?

47 Everyone coming to me and hearing my divrei Torah and putting them into practice, I will show you to whom he is likened.

48 He is likened to the man building a bais who dug and went down deep and laid a yesod upon the av sela (bedrock). And a flood having come, the river struck against that bais, and the flood was not strong enough to shake it, because its binnuy was firm.