MATT. XVIII. MARK LUKE XVII. JOHN Lord said, "If ye had faith as a grain of mus tard seed, ye might say unto this sycamore tree, 'Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea;' and it should obey you. 7 But which of you is there having a servant plowing, or feeding cattle, who, when he cometh in from the fields, will straightway say unto him, 'Come and place thyself at table?' 8 but will not rather say unto him, 'Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunk; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? Doth he thank that servant because he did the things com. manded? I think not. 10 So likewise ye, when ye have done all the things commanded you, say, 'We are unprofitable servants: We have done what we ought to do.'" 9 δουλος MATT. XVIII. was brought unto him who owed him ten thou- • Or, master:-and so throughout the parable; except perhaps in ver. 26, where one would prefer 'Lord,' or 'Sir.'-The word for servant is dovλoç throughout. + Or, fell down and did him reverence, πεσων-προσεκύνει αυτή. The rendering in the text expresses the original force of the verb popкvvεw, according to the most probable derivation and import-from кvwv, dog, gen. KuVoc. It thus denotes prostration (like the dog) at the feet of any one,—as a mark of civil homage, of religious reverence, of supplication, or of adoration, according to the circumstances. MATT. XVIII. lord all that was done. 32 Then his lord, having called him to him, saith unto him, 'Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou besoughtest me: 33 oughtest not thou also to have had pity on thy fellow-servant, even as I had pity on thee? 34 And his lord was angry, and delivered him to the gaolers, till he should pay all that was owed to him. 35 Thus also will my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother." CH. XIX. And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these words, he departed from Galilee. (Cont. p. 180). After recording the Transfiguration and some of the subsequent occurrences, St. Luke informs us, in ch. ix. 51–56, (with which passage the next Part commences), that our Lord sent messengers before him, who went into a village of the Samaritans to prepare for his coming, but that the inhabitants refused to receive him. This fact is recorded by St. Luke alone; and it is obvious from it, that our Lord first purposed to go direct through Samaria: it may reasonably be inferred that this was in order to avoid the necessity of passing through the eastern portion of Herod's dominions, through which lay the ordinary route of the Galileans when going to Jerusalem. Here the sacred historian suspends his narrative of the last journey, to introduce that miscellaneous Collection of the Sayings of Christ, (chiefly derived, it is probable, from the written records or verbal relations of the Seventy Disciples), which forms so remarkable a feature of his Gospel, and constitutes so large and important a portion of it-occupying the xth and six following chapters, with the first ten verses of the xviith. (See Diss. II. Sect. iv. and Supplement). With the exception of ch. xiii. 22—35, and ch. xvii. 1-10, the whole will be found in Part V.; in which are arranged the occurrences during the absence of the Twelve. After giving these invaluable records, many of which are found solely in his Gospel, the sacred historian continues his narrative of the last journey with an occurrence which neither St. Matthew nor St. Mark has recorded-the cure of the ten lepers. In ch. ix. 56, he had stated that when our Lord was refused reception in the village of the Samaritans, he went to another village:' in ch. xvii. 11, we find him, in the immediately succeeding part of his journey, going along the confines of Samaria and Galilee, (obviously in order to go into the Peræa), and entering into a certain village. RECORDS OF CHRIST'S MINISTRY. PART VII. OUR LORD'S FINAL JOURNEY FROM GALILEE, THROUGH THE PERÆA, TO HIS ARRIVAL AT BETHANY SHORTLY BEFORE THE PASSOVER. SECT. I. Our Lord sets out for Jerusalem-is refused Reception in Samaria- While passing through the Confines of Samaria and Galilee, in order to go into the Peraa, he heals Ten Lepers. that he 61 AND it came to pass, when the days were JOHN So Wynne: Lit. the days of his being received up. ↑ Or, (without the Hebraism), before him. Or, (without the Hebraism), because he was going. The beautiful portion of ver. 55, after rebuked them', is omitted by Lachman; and regarded as very doubtful by Griesbach und Scholz. The first part of the 56th verse is entirely omitted by each of the three Editors-viz. 'for the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.' It does not appear improbable, that at least the part which is left in the text was a traditionary record of Christ's words added in the margin of an early copy of Luke's Gospel. There must have been many remembered sayings of Christ not recorded in the Gospels; see, for instance, Acts xx. 35. After this verse are recorded some occurrences, two of which are referred by St. Matthew to an earlier period: see p. 76. The third, which is peculiar to Luke, may have occurred at this period. |