Measures (βατους). Transliterated word for Hebrew bath, between eight and nine gallons. Here alone in the N.T. Not the same…

An hundred measures. The measure here mentioned is the bath, which contained, according to Dr. Arbuthnot's tables, 7 1/2 gallons,…

Take your bill, and sit down quickly.—The better manuscripts give, your bills, or your documents, in th…

The Venerable Bede: After rebuking with three parables those who murmured because He received penitents, our Savior shortly aft…

(5–8a) As already noted, the bills may have been written in terms of commodities rather than cash, perhaps in order to hide the actual amount of in…

And he said an hundred measures of oil
Or "baths of oil", the same quantity as in (Ezra 7:22) where Aben…

Whatever we have, its property belongs to God; we only have the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honor. This st…