Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Verse Takeaways
1
The Law's Impossible Standard
Commentators agree that when Jesus says, "Do this, and you will live," He is highlighting an impossible standard for sinful humanity. The command requires perpetual, perfect love for God and neighbor. Scholars explain this isn't a simple roadmap to salvation but a way to show the lawyer (and us) that we cannot earn eternal life through our own efforts, thus revealing our desperate need for God's grace.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Luke
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
Commentaries
8
AT Robertson
On Luke 10:28
Thou hast answered right (ορθως απεκριθης). First aorist passive indicative second singular with the adverb ορθως. The answer was …
Charles Ellicott
On Luke 10:28
19th Century
Bishop
Thou hast answered right.—The acceptance of the lawyer’s answer as theoretically true was part of the method of our Lord’…
Charles Spurgeon
On Luke 10:25–28
19th Century
Preacher
And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted Him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And He, answering, said, Thou…
Go Ad-Free
Go ad-free and create your own bookmark library
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 10:28
Jesus affirms that the man has answered correctly. This does not mean that the inquirer has grasped the full meaning of the law, nor does it endors…
John Calvin
On Luke 10:28
16th Century
Theologian
Do this, and you shall live. I have explained a little before how this promise agrees with freely bestowed justification by faith: for the…
John Gill
On Luke 10:28
17th Century
Pastor
And he said unto him, you have answered right
It is so written, and read; and this, as if he should say, is the sum …
Matthew Henry
On Luke 10:25–37
17th Century
Minister
If we speak of eternal life, and the way to it, in a careless manner, we take the name of God in vain. No one will ever love God and his neighbor w…