Lucas 14
John Phillips · Citado em PreceptAustin
Lucas 14
Phillips - These people, particularly the Pharisees and the lawyers, insisted on the most rigid observance of the Sabbath laws, but they practiced the opposite. They turned the closing hours of the Sabbath into an occasion for feasting. (Exploring the Gospel of Luke: An Expository Commentary) NET Note asks "Will the Pharisees and experts in religious law defend tradition and speak out against doing good on the Sabbath? Has anything at all been learned since Luke 13:10–17? Has repentance come (Lk 13:6–9)?" As we shall see, they were resolute in their resistance to repentance! Legalism will do that to a person. They think that since they are "keeping all the laws" they have no need for repentance. When distilled down, is this not arrogant self-righteousness under the guise of feigned obedience?
Lucas 14
Phillips writes "The words must have struck a most discordant note in the ears of that jostling human crowd. A cross? The cross was the very symbol of Roman oppression and cruelty. It was a gallows, an instrument of unbelievable suffering and shame. Nothing about a cross was glamorous. It was the very symbol of the Curse. "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree," declared God's law (Deut. 21:23; Gal. 3:13). The Lord's disciples all reacted against the mention of the cross (Matt. 16:21-25), so we can imagine the astonishment of the crowd. They saw nothing in this message for them. They thought that the procession was marching to Zion to crown Him. The notion that He was heading toward Calvary and a cross never occurred to them in their wildest dreams. (See Exploring the Gospel of Luke: An Expository Commentary) Keener - A condemned criminal would “carry the cross” (i.e., the horizontal beam of the cross, the patibulum) out to the site of the upright stake where he would be crucified, usually amid a jeering mob. No one would choose this fate for oneself, but Jesus calls true disciples to choose it and thus to hate their own lives by comparison with their devotion to him (Lk 14:26). (See The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament)