Lucas 5
John Wesley · Notas Explicativas sobre o NT
Lucas 5:1
Matt. iv, 18; Mark i, 16.
Lucas 5:6
Their net brake - Began to tear.
Lucas 5:8
Depart from me, for I am a sinful man - And therefore not worthy to be in thy presence.
Lucas 5:11
They forsook all and followed him - They had followed him before, John i, 43, but not so as to forsake all. Till now, they wrought at their ordinary calling.
Lucas 5:12
Matt. viii, 2; Mark i, 40.
Lucas 5:14
Lev. xiv, 2.
Lucas 5:16
He withdrew - The expression in the original implies, that he did so frequently.
Lucas 5:17
Sitting by - As being more honourable than the bulk of the congregation, who stood. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them - To heal the sickness of their souls, as well as all bodily diseases.
Lucas 5:18
Matt. ix, 2; Mark ii, 3.
Lucas 5:19
Not being able to bring him in through the multitude, they went round about by a back passage, and going up the stairs on the outside, they came upon the flat-roofed house, and let him down through the trap door, such as was on the top of most of the Jewish houses: doubtless, with such circumspection as the circumstances plainly required.
Lucas 5:26
We have seen strange things today - Sins forgiven, miracles wrought.
Lucas 5:27
Matt. ix, 9; Mark ii, 14.
Lucas 5:28
Leaving all - His business and gain.
Lucas 5:29
And Levi made him a great entertainment - It was necessarily great, because of the great number of guests.
Lucas 5:33
Make prayers - Long and solemn. Matt. ix, 14; Mark ii, 18.
Lucas 5:34
Can ye make - That is, is it proper to make men fast and mourn, during a festival solemnity?
Lucas 5:36
He spake also a parable - Taken from clothes and wine; therefore peculiarly proper at a feast.
Lucas 5:39
And no man having drunk old wine - And beside, men are not wont to be immediately freed from old prejudices.