Luc 12:56

56 Hypocrites! vous savez discerner l'aspect de la terre et du ciel; comment donc ne discernez-vous pas ce temps-ci?

Luc 12:56 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 12:56

Ye hypocrites
A word often used of the Scribes and Pharisees, and which suggests, that there were such in company, to whom Christ more especially directs his discourse; and this may be the rather thought, since much the like things are said by him to the Pharisees, with the Sadducees, in ( Matthew 16:1-3 ) and the same appellation is given them there, as here:

ye can discern the face of the sky, and of the earth;
from the appearance of the sky, they could tell how it would be with the earth, and the inhabitants of it, whether they should have dry or wet weather, heat or cold:

but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
that this is the time of the Messiah's coming, and that it is the accepted time, and day of salvation, if ye receive him, and believe in him; and a time of vengeance, if ye reject him: this might have been discerned by the prophecies of the Old Testament, which fix the characters of the Messiah, and the time of his coming; and describe the manners of the men of that generation, in which he should come: and point out both their happiness and their ruin; as also by the doctrines they heard Christ preach, and especially by the miracles which were wrought by him, it might have been known he was come.

Luc 12:56 In-Context

54 Il disait encore au peuple: Quand vous voyez une nuée qui se lève du côté d'occident, vous dites aussitôt: Il va pleuvoir; et cela arrive ainsi.

55 Et quand le vent du midi souffle, vous dites: Il fera chaud, et cela arrive.

56 Hypocrites! vous savez discerner l'aspect de la terre et du ciel; comment donc ne discernez-vous pas ce temps-ci?

57 Et pourquoi ne discernez-vous pas aussi par vous-mêmes ce qui est juste?

58 Or, quand tu vas devant le magistrat avec ta partie adverse, tâche en chemin de sortir d'affaire avec elle, de peur qu'elle ne te traîne devant le juge, que le juge ne te livre au sergent, et que le sergent ne te mette en prison.