Luke 17

Luke 17
Luke 6:4-16 on Papyrus 4, written about AD 150-175.
Book Gospel of Luke
Bible part New Testament
Order in the Bible part 3
Category Gospel

Luke 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the teachings of Jesus Christ and the healing of ten lepers.[1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles.[2]

Text

Structure

The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows:

The Pulpit Commentary suggests that the whole of this chapter is concerned with "the Master's teaching on the subject of the injury worked on the souls of others by our sins".[3]

Offences and forgiving of offences

"Offences", literally "stumbling blocks" (Greek: τα σκανδαλα, skandala).[4]

Cleansing ten lepers

James Tissot - The Healing of Ten Lepers (Guérison de dix lépreux) - Brooklyn Museum

This is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels (only in the Gospel of Luke).[5][6] On his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!" When he saw them, he said: :"Go, show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were cleansed. One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked:

"Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?"

Then he said to him:

"Rise and go; your faith has saved you."

This miracle has been described as emphasising the importance of faith, for Jesus did not say: "My power has saved you" but attributed the healing to the faith of the beneficiaries.[7][8]

The coming of the kingdom

He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come.[9]

Lutheran biblical writer Harold Buls notes that the Pharisees' question is a 'when?' question whereas Jesus' answer is a 'what?' response: the Pharisees "were expecting the Kingdom of God ... to come soon"; this is "a faulty notion about the character of the Kingdom". Jesus replies that the Kingdom of God does not come "with observation" or "with a visible display":[10] the word Greek: παρατηρήσεως (paratērēseōs, careful observation) appears only here in the New Testament.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an Abbreviated Bible Commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
  2. ↑ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
  3. ↑ Pulpit Commentary on Luke 17, accessed 3 July 2018
  4. ↑ Luke 17:1
  5. ↑ Bible Knowledge Background Commentary: Matthew-Luke by David C. Cook and Craig A. Evans (Feb 27, 2003) ISBN 0781438683 page 365
  6. ↑ Biblegateway Luke 17:11-19
  7. ↑ Berard L. Marthaler (2007) The creed: the apostolic faith in contemporary theology ISBN 0-89622-537-2 page 220
  8. ↑ Lockyer, Herbert, 1988 All the Miracles of the Bible ISBN 0-310-28101-6 page 235
  9. ↑ Luke 17:20
  10. ↑ Luke 17:20: ISV
  11. ↑ Englishman's Concordance, παρατηρήσεως
Preceded by
Luke 16		 Chapters of the Bible
Gospel of Luke		 Succeeded by
Luke 18
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