translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: LUK

label: NET study note

text: See Luke 6:24-26 .


text: You must forgive him. Forgiveness is to be readily given and not withheld. In a community that is to have restored relationships, grudges are not beneficial.


text: The request of the apostles, “ Increase our faith ,” is not a request for a gift of faith, but a request to increase the depth of their faith.


text: A black mulberry tree is a deciduous fruit tree that grows about 20 ft (6 m) tall and has black juicy berries. This tree has an extensive root system, so to pull it up would be a major operation.


text: This is another travel note about Jesus going to Jerusalem in Luke 9:51-19:48 , the so-called “Jerusalem journey” section of Luke’s Gospel. It is not a straight line journey, because to travel along the Galilean and Samaritan border is to go east or west, not south to Jerusalem. map For location see Map5-B1 ; Map6-F3 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-F2 ; Map10-B3 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: The ten men with leprosy would have been unable to approach Jesus ( Lev 13:45-46 ; Num 5:2-3 ). The ancient term for leprosy covered a wider array of conditions than what is called leprosy today. A leper was totally ostracized from society until he was declared cured ( Lev 13:45-46 ).


text: “ Have mercy on us ” is a request to heal them ( Luke 18:38-39; 16:24 ; Matt 9:27; 15:22; 17:15; 20:31-32 ; Mark 10:47-49 ).


text: These are the instructions of what to do with a healing ( Lev 13:19; 14:1-11 ; Luke 5:14 ).


text: And thanked him. This action recognized God’s healing work through Jesus.


text: This is a parenthetical note by the author. The comment that the man was a Samaritan means that to most Jews of Jesus’ day he would have been despised as a half-breed and a heretic. The note adds a touch of irony to the account (v. 18 ).


text: Jesus’ point in calling the man a foreigner is that none of the other nine, who were presumably Israelites, responded with gratitude. Only the “outsiders” were listening and responding.


text: See the note on Pharisees in 5:17 .


text: The kingdom of God is a major theme of Jesus. It is a realm in which Jesus rules and to which those who trust him belong. See Luke 6:20; 11:20; 17:20-21 .


text: This is a reference to the days of the full manifestation of Jesus’ power in a fully established kingdom. The reference to “days” instead of “day” is unusual, appearing only here and in v. 26 , but it may be motivated merely by parallelism with the “days” of Noah there and the “days of Lot” in v. 28 .


text: Do not go out or chase after them. There will be no need to search for the Son of Man at his coming, though many will falsely claim its arrival.


text: The Son of Man’s coming in power will be sudden and obvious like lightning . No one will need to point it out.


text: The Son of Man’s suffering and rejection by this generation is another “it is necessary” type of event in God’s plan ( Luke 4:43; 24:7, 26, 44 ) and the fifth passion prediction in Luke’s account ( 9:22, 44; 12:50; 13:32-33 ; for the last, see 18:32-33 ).


text: Like the days of Noah , the time of the flood in Gen 6:5-8:22 , the judgment will come as a surprise as people live their day to day lives.


text: Like that flood came and destroyed them all , the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.


text: And destroyed them all . The coming of the Son of Man will be like the judgment on Sodom, one of the most immoral places of the OT ( Gen 19:16-17 ; Deut 32:32-33 ; Isa 1:10 ).


text: Most of the roofs in the NT were flat roofs made of pounded dirt, sometimes mixed with lime or stones, supported by heavy wooden beams. They generally had an easy means of access, either a sturdy wooden ladder or stone stairway, sometimes on the outside of the house.


text: The swiftness and devastation of the judgment will require a swift escape. There is no time to come down from one’s roof and pick up anything from inside one’s home.


text: An allusion to Gen 19:26 . The warning about Lot’s wife is not to look back and long to be where one used to be. The world is being judged, and the person who delays or turns back will be destroyed.


text: Whoever loses his life. Suffering and persecution caused by the world, even to death, cannot stop God from saving ( Luke 12:4-6 ).


text: There is debate among commentators and scholars over the phrase one will be taken and the other left about whether one is taken for judgment or for salvation. If the imagery is patterned after the rescue of Noah from the flood and Lot from Sodom, as some suggest, the ones taken are the saved (as Noah and Lot were) andthose left behind are judged. The imagery, however, is not directly tied to theidentification of the two groups. Its primary purposein context is topicture the sudden, surprisingseparation of the righteous and the judged (i.e., condemned) at the return of the Son of Man.


text: The question “ Where, Lord? ” means, “Where will the judgment take place?”