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A Hostile Interrogation
Commentators explain that the scribes and Pharisees were not asking genuine questions. Their goal was to trap Jesus. They "pressed upon him vehemently" and "provoked him to speak," firing a barrage of rapid questions to confuse him and force an error they could use to accuse him. This reveals their deep-seated rage and malicious intent.
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Albert Barnes
On Luke 11:53
18th Century
Theologian
To urge him vehemently. To press upon him violently. They were enraged against him. Therefore, they pressed upon him, asked him m…
AT Robertson
On Luke 11:53
From thence (κ'ακειθεν). Out of the Pharisee's house. What became of the breakfast we are not told, but the rage of both Pharisees…
Charles Ellicott
On Luke 11:53
19th Century
Bishop
And as he said these things to them.—The better manuscripts read, “When He had gone forth from thence . . . ,” a…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Luke 11:53–54
19th Century
Preacher
And as he said these words to them, the scribes and Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things, lying i…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 11:53
Jesus directed his final woe against the experts in the law for their sin of taking away not just physical but eternal life, a dereliction of their…
John Calvin
On Luke 11:53
16th Century
Theologian
And while he was saying these things to them. I have previously mentioned that the previous sentences were not inserted by Luke in their p…
John Gill
On Luke 11:53
17th Century
Pastor
And as he said these things unto them
Denounced the above woes upon them, charging them with the above crimes, and t…
Matthew Henry
On Luke 11:37–54
17th Century
Minister
We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, …