1Habiendo reunido a sus doce discípulos, les dio poder y autoridad sobre todos los demonios, y para sanar enfermedades.
2Y los envió a predicar el reino de Dios, y a sanar a los enfermos.
3Y les dijo: No toméis nada para el camino, ni bordón, ni alforja, ni pan, ni dinero; ni llevéis dos túnicas.
4Y en cualquier casa donde entréis, quedad allí, y de allí salid.
5Y dondequiera que no os recibieren, salid de aquella ciudad, y sacudid el polvo de vuestros pies en testimonio contra ellos.
6Y saliendo, pasaban por todas las aldeas, anunciando el evangelio y sanando por todas partes.
7Herodes el tetrarca oyó de todas las cosas que hacía Jesús; y estaba perplejo, porque decían algunos: Juan ha resucitado de los muertos;
8otros: Elías ha aparecido; y otros: Algún profeta de los antiguos ha resucitado.
9Y dijo Herodes: A Juan yo le hice decapitar; ¿quién, pues, es este, de quien oigo tales cosas? Y procuraba verle.
10Vueltos los apóstoles, le contaron todo lo que habían hecho. Y tomándolos, se retiró aparte, a un lugar desierto de la ciudad llamada Betsaida.
11Y cuando la gente lo supo, le siguió; y él les recibió, y les hablaba del reino de Dios, y sanaba a los que necesitaban ser curados.
12Pero el día comenzaba a declinar; y acercándose los doce, le dijeron: Despide a la gente, para que vayan a las aldeas y campos de alrededor, y se alojen y encuentren alimentos; porque aquí estamos en lugar desierto.
13Él les dijo: Dadles vosotros de comer. Y dijeron ellos: No tenemos más que cinco panes y dos pescados, a no ser que vayamos nosotros a comprar alimentos para toda esta multitud.
14Y eran como cinco mil hombres. Entonces dijo a sus discípulos: Hacedlos sentar en grupos, de cincuenta en cincuenta.
15Así lo hicieron, haciéndolos sentar a todos.
16Y tomando los cinco panes y los dos pescados, levantando los ojos al cielo, los bendijo, y los partió, y dio a sus discípulos para que los pusiesen delante de la gente.
17Y comieron todos, y se saciaron; y recogieron lo que les sobró, doce cestas de pedazos.
18Aconteció que mientras Jesús oraba aparte, estaban con él los discípulos; y les preguntó, diciendo: ¿Quién dice la gente que soy yo?
19Ellos respondieron: Unos, Juan el Bautista; otros, Elías; y otros, que algún profeta de los antiguos ha resucitado.
20Él les dijo: ¿Y vosotros, quién decís que soy? Entonces respondiendo Pedro, dijo: El Cristo de Dios.
21Pero él les mandó que a nadie dijesen esto, encargándoselo rigurosamente,
22y diciendo: Es necesario que el Hijo del Hombre padezca muchas cosas, y sea desechado por los ancianos, por los principales sacerdotes y por los escribas, y que sea muerto, y resucite al tercer día.
23Y decía a todos: Si alguno quiere venir en pos de mí, niéguese a sí mismo, tome su cruz cada día, y sígame.
24Porque todo el que quiera salvar su vida, la perderá; y todo el que pierda su vida por causa de mí, este la salvará.
25Pues ¿qué aprovecha al hombre, si gana todo el mundo, y se destruye o se pierde a sí mismo?
26Porque el que se avergonzare de mí y de mis palabras, de este se avergonzará el Hijo del Hombre cuando venga en su gloria, y en la del Padre, y de los santos ángeles.
27Pero os digo en verdad, que hay algunos de los que están aquí, que no gustarán la muerte hasta que vean el reino de Dios.
28Aconteció como ocho días después de estas palabras, que tomó a Pedro, a Juan y a Jacobo, y subió al monte a orar.
29Y entre tanto que oraba, la apariencia de su rostro se hizo otra, y su vestido blanco y resplandeciente.
30Y he aquí dos varones que hablaban con él, los cuales eran Moisés y Elías;
31quienes aparecieron rodeados de gloria, y hablaban de su partida, que iba Jesús a cumplir en Jerusalén.
32Y Pedro y los que estaban con él estaban rendidos de sueño; mas permaneciendo despiertos, vieron la gloria de Jesús, y a los dos varones que estaban con él.
33Y sucedió que apartándose ellos de él, Pedro dijo a Jesús: Maestro, bueno es para nosotros que estemos aquí; y hagamos tres enramadas, una para ti, una para Moisés, y una para Elías; no sabiendo lo que decía.
34Mientras él decía esto, vino una nube que los cubrió; y tuvieron temor al entrar en la nube.
35Y vino una voz desde la nube, que decía: Este es mi Hijo amado; a él oíd.
36Y cuando cesó la voz, Jesús fue hallado solo; y ellos callaron, y por aquellos días no dijeron nada a nadie de lo que habían visto.
37Al día siguiente, cuando descendieron del monte, una gran multitud les salió al encuentro.
38Y he aquí, un hombre de la multitud clamó diciendo: Maestro, te ruego que veas a mi hijo, pues es el único que tengo;
39y sucede que un espíritu le toma, y de repente da voces, y le sacude con violencia, y le hace echar espuma, y estropeándole, a duras penas se aparta de él.
40Y rogué a tus discípulos que le echasen fuera, y no pudieron.
41Respondiendo Jesús, dijo: ¡Oh generación incrédula y perversa! ¿Hasta cuándo he de estar con vosotros, y os he de soportar? Trae acá a tu hijo.
42Y mientras se acercaba el muchacho, el demonio le derribó y le sacudió con violencia; pero Jesús reprendió al espíritu inmundo, y sanó al muchacho, y se lo devolvió a su padre.
43Y todos se admiraban de la grandeza de Dios. Y maravillándose todos de todas las cosas que hacía, dijo a sus discípulos:
44Haced que os penetren bien en los oídos estas palabras; porque acontecerá que el Hijo del Hombre será entregado en manos de hombres.
45Mas ellos no entendían estas palabras, pues les estaban veladas para que no las entendiesen; y temían preguntarle sobre esas palabras.
46Entonces entraron en discusión sobre quién de ellos sería el mayor.
47Y Jesús, percibiendo los pensamientos de sus corazones, tomó a un niño y lo puso junto a sí,
48y les dijo: Cualquiera que reciba a este niño en mi nombre, a mí me recibe; y cualquiera que me recibe a mí, recibe al que me envió; porque el que es más pequeño entre todos vosotros, ese es el más grande.
49Entonces respondiendo Juan, dijo: Maestro, hemos visto a uno que echaba fuera demonios en tu nombre; y se lo prohibimos, porque no sigue con nosotros.
50Jesús le dijo: No se lo prohibáis; porque el que no es contra nosotros, por nosotros es.
51Cuando se cumplió el tiempo en que él había de ser recibido arriba, afirmó su rostro para ir a Jerusalén.
52Y envió mensajeros delante de él, los cuales fueron y entraron en una aldea de los samaritanos para hacerle preparativos.
53Mas no le recibieron, porque su aspecto era como de ir a Jerusalén.
54Viendo esto sus discípulos Jacobo y Juan, dijeron: Señor, ¿quieres que mandemos que descienda fuego del cielo, como hizo Elías, y los consuma?
55Entonces volviéndose él, los reprendió, diciendo: Vosotros no sabéis de qué espíritu sois;
56porque el Hijo del Hombre no ha venido para perder las almas de los hombres, sino para salvarlas. Y se fueron a otra aldea.
57Yendo ellos, uno le dijo en el camino: Señor, te seguiré adondequiera que vayas.
58Y le dijo Jesús: Las zorras tienen guaridas, y las aves de los cielos nidos; mas el Hijo del Hombre no tiene dónde recostar la cabeza.
59Y dijo a otro: Sígueme. Él le dijo: Señor, déjame que primero vaya y entierre a mi padre.
60Jesús le dijo: Deja que los muertos entierren a sus muertos; y tú ve, y anuncia el reino de Dios.
61Entonces también dijo otro: Te seguiré, Señor; pero déjame que me despida primero de los que están en mi casa.
62Y Jesús le dijo: Ninguno que poniendo su mano en el arado mira hacia atrás, es apto para el reino de Dios.
JAMIESON-FAUSSET-BROWN BIBLE COMMENTARY
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I. HEROD TROUBLED AT WHAT HE HEARS OF CHRIST DESIRES TO SEE HIM. (Luk 9:7-9)
HEROD TROUBLED AT WHAT HE HEARS OF CHRIST DESIRES TO SEE HIM. (Luk 9:7-9)
perplexed--at a loss, embarrassed.
said of some, that John was risen--Among many opinions, this was the one which Herod himself adopted, for the reason, no doubt, mentioned on Mar 6:14.
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II. desired to see him--but did not, till as a prisoner He was sent to him by Pilate just before His …
desired to see him--but did not, till as a prisoner He was sent to him by Pilate just before His death, as we learn from Luk 23:8.
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III. PETER'S CONFESSION OF CHRIST--OUR LORD'S FIRST EXPLICIT ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS APPROACHING DEATH, AN…
PETER'S CONFESSION OF CHRIST--OUR LORD'S FIRST EXPLICIT ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS APPROACHING DEATH, AND WARNINGS ARISING OUT OF IT. (Luk 9:18-27)
will save--"Is minded to save," bent on saving. The pith of this maxim depends--as often in such weighty sayings (for example, "Let the dead bury the dead," Mat 8:22) --on the double sense attached to the word "life," a lower and a higher, the natural and the spiritual, temporal and eternal. An entire sacrifice of the lower, or a willingness to make it, is indispensable to the preservation of the higher life; and he who cannot bring himself to surrender the one for the sake of the other shall eventually lose both.
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IV. ashamed of me, and of my words--The sense of shame is one of the strongest in our nature, one of …
ashamed of me, and of my words--The sense of shame is one of the strongest in our nature, one of the social affections founded on our love of reputation, which causes instinctive aversion to what is fitted to lower it, and was given us as a preservative from all that is properly shameful. When one is, in this sense of it, lost to shame, he is nearly past hope (Zac 3:5; Jer 6:15; Jer 3:3). But when Christ and "His words"--Christianity, especially in its more spiritual and uncompromising features--are unpopular, the same instinctive desire to stand well with others begets the temptation to be ashamed of Him, which only the 'expulsive power' of a higher affection can effectually counteract.
Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh, &c.--He will render to that man his own treatment; He will disown him before the most august of all assemblies, and put him to "shame and everlasting contempt" (Dan 12:2). "Oh shame, to be put to shame before God, Christ, and angels!" [BENGEL].
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Versículo 27
V. not taste of death fill they see the kingdom of God--"see it come with power" (Mar 9:1); or see "…
not taste of death fill they see the kingdom of God--"see it come with power" (Mar 9:1); or see "the Son of man coming in His kingdom" (Mat 16:28). The reference, beyond doubt, is to the firm establishment and victorious progress, in the lifetime of some then present, of that new Kingdom of Christ, which was destined to work the greatest of all changes on this earth, and be the grand pledge of His final coming in glory.
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VI. JESUS TRANSFIGURED. (Luk 9:28-36)
JESUS TRANSFIGURED. (Luk 9:28-36)
an eight days after these sayings--including the day on which this was spoken and that of the Transfiguration. Matthew and Mark say (Mat 17:1; Mar 9:2) "after six days," excluding these two days. As the "sayings" so definitely connected with the transfiguration scene are those announcing His death--at which Peter and all the Twelve were so startled and scandalized--so this scene was designed to show to the eyes as well as the heart how glorious that death was in the view of Heaven.
Peter, James, and John--partners before in secular business; now sole witnesses of the resurrection of Jairus' daughter (Mar 5:37), the transfiguration, and the agony in the garden (Mar 14:33).
a mountain--not Tabor, according to long tradition, with which the facts ill comport, but some one near the lake.
to pray--for the period He had now reached was a critical and anxious one. (See on Mat 16:13). But who can adequately translate those "strong cryings and tears?" Methinks, as I steal by His side, I hear from Him these plaintive sounds, "Lord, who hath believed Our report? I am come unto Mine own and Mine own receive Me not; I am become a stranger unto My brethren, an alien to My mother's children: Consider Mine enemies, for they are many, and they hate Me with cruel hatred. Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail. Thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth: Show Me a token for good: Father, glorify Thy name."
VII
Versículo 29
VII. as he prayed, the fashion, &c.--Before He cried He was answered, and while He was yet speaking He…
as he prayed, the fashion, &c.--Before He cried He was answered, and while He was yet speaking He was heard. Blessed interruption to prayer this! Thanks to God, transfiguring manifestations are not quite strangers here. Ofttimes in the deepest depths, out of groanings which cannot be uttered, God's dear children are suddenly transported to a kind of heaven upon earth, and their soul is made as the chariots of Amminadab. Their prayers fetch down such light, strength, holy gladness, as make their face to shine, putting a kind of celestial radiance upon it (Co2 3:18, with Exo 34:29-35).
raiment white, &c.--Matthew says, "His face did shine as the sun" (Mat 17:2), and Mark says (Mar 9:3), "His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow, so as no fuller on earth can white them" (Mar 9:3). The light, then, it would seem, shone not upon Him from without, but out of Him from within; He was all irradiated, was in one blaze of celestial glory. What a contrast to that "visage more marred than men, and His form than the sons of men!" (Isa 52:14).
VIII
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VIII. there talked with him two men . . . Moses and Elias . . . appeared in glory--"Who would have beli…
there talked with him two men . . . Moses and Elias . . . appeared in glory--"Who would have believed these were not angels had not their human names been subjoined?" [BENGEL]. (Compare Act 1:10; Mar 16:5). Moses represented "the law," Elijah "the prophets," and both together the whole testimony of the Old Testament Scriptures, and the Old Testament saints, to Christ; now not borne in a book, but by living men, not to a coming, but a come Messiah, visibly, for they "appeared," and audibly, for they "spake."
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IX. spake--"were speaking."
spake--"were speaking."
of his decease--"departure"; beautiful euphemism (softened term) for death, which Peter, who witnessed the scene, uses to express his own expected death, and the use of which single term seems to have recalled the whole by a sudden rush of recollection, and occasioned that delightful allusion to this scene which we find in Pe2 1:15-18.
which he should accomplish--"was to fulfil."
at Jerusalem--Mark the historical character and local features which Christ's death assumed to these glorified men--as important as it is charming--and see on Luk 2:11. What now may be gathered from this statement? (1) That a dying Messiah is the great article of the true Jewish theology. For a long time the Church had fallen clean away from the faith of this article, and even from a preparedness to receive it. But here we have that jewel raked out of the dunghill of Jewish traditions, and by the true representatives of the Church of old made the one subject of talk with Christ Himself. (2) The adoring gratitude of glorified men for His undertaking to accomplish such a decease; their felt dependence upon it for the glory in which they appeared; their profound interest in the progress of it, their humble solaces and encouragements to go through with it; and their sense of its peerless and overwhelming glory. "Go, matchless, adored One, a Lamb to the slaughter! rejected of men, but chosen of God and precious; dishonored, abhorred, and soon to be slain by men, but worshipped by cherubim, ready to be greeted by all heaven. In virtue of that decease we are here; our all is suspended on it and wrapped up in it. Thine every step is watched by us with ineffable interest; and though it were too high an honor to us to be permitted to drop a word of cheer into that precious but now clouded spirit, yet, as the first-fruits of harvest; the very joy set before Him, we cannot choose but tell Him that what is the depth of shame to Him is covered with glory in the eyes of Heaven, that the Cross to Him is the Crown to us, that that 'decease' is all our salvation and all our desire." And who can doubt that such a scene did minister deep cheer to that spirit? It is said they "talked" not to Him, but "with Him"; and if they told Him how glorious His decease was, might He not fitly reply, "I know it, but your voice, as messengers from heaven come down to tell it Me, is music in Mine ears."
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X. and when they were awake--so, certainly, the most commentators: but if we translate literally, it…
and when they were awake--so, certainly, the most commentators: but if we translate literally, it should be "but having kept awake" [MEYER, ALFORD]. Perhaps "having roused themselves up" [OLSHAUSEN] may come near enough to the literal sense; but from the word used we can gather no more than that they shook off their drowsiness. It was night, and the Lord seems to have spent the whole night on the mountain (Luk 9:37).
saw his glory, &c.--The emphasis lies on "saw," qualifying them to become "eye-witnesses of His majesty" (Pe2 1:16).
XI
Versículo 33
XI. they departed--Ah! bright manifestations in this vale of tears are always "departing" manifestati…
they departed--Ah! bright manifestations in this vale of tears are always "departing" manifestations.
XII
Versículo 34
XII. a cloud--not one of our watery clouds, but the Shekinah-cloud (see on Mat 23:39), the pavilion of…
a cloud--not one of our watery clouds, but the Shekinah-cloud (see on Mat 23:39), the pavilion of the manifested presence of God with His people, what Peter calls "the excellent" of "magnificent glory" (Pe2 1:17).
a voice--"such a voice," says Peter emphatically; "and this voice [he adds] we heard, when we were with Him in the holy mount" (Pe2 1:17-18).
XIII
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XIII. my beloved Son . . . hear him--reverentially, implicitly, alone.
my beloved Son . . . hear him--reverentially, implicitly, alone.
XIV
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XIV. Jesus was found alone--Moses and Elias are gone. Their work is done, and they have disappeared fr…
Jesus was found alone--Moses and Elias are gone. Their work is done, and they have disappeared from the scene, feeling no doubt with their fellow servant the Baptist, "He must increase, but I must decrease." The cloud too is gone, and the naked majestic Christ, braced in spirit, and enshrined in the reverent affection of His disciples, is left--to suffer!
kept it close--feeling, for once at least, that such things were unmeet as yet for the general gaze.
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XV. DEMONIAC AND LUNATIC BOY HEALED--CHRIST'S SECOND EXPLICIT ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DEATH AND RESURRECT…
DEMONIAC AND LUNATIC BOY HEALED--CHRIST'S SECOND EXPLICIT ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION. (Luk 9:37-45)
the mighty power of God--"the majesty" or "mightiness" of God in this last miracle, the transfiguration, &c.: the divine grandeur of Christ rising upon them daily. By comparing Mat 17:22, and Mar 9:30, we gather that this had been the subject of conversation between the Twelve and their Master as they journeyed along.
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16. these sayings--not what was passing between them about His grandeur [MEYER, &c.], but what He was…
these sayings--not what was passing between them about His grandeur [MEYER, &c.], but what He was now to repeat for the second time about His sufferings [DE WETTE, STIER, ALFORD, &c.]; that is, "Be not carried off your feet by all this grandeur of Mine, but bear in mind what I have already told you, and now distinctly repeat, that that Sun in whose beams ye now rejoice is soon to set in midnight gloom." "The Son of man," says Christ, "into the hands of men"--a remarkable antithesis (also in Mat 17:22, and Mar 9:31).
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17. and they feared--"insomuch that they feared." Their most cherished ideas were so completely dashe…
and they feared--"insomuch that they feared." Their most cherished ideas were so completely dashed by such announcements, that they were afraid of laying themselves open to rebuke by asking Him any questions.
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Versículo 46
18. STRIFE AMONG THE TWELVE WHO SHOULD BE GREATEST--JOHN REBUKED FOR EXCLUSIVENESS. (Luk 9:46-48)
STRIFE AMONG THE TWELVE WHO SHOULD BE GREATEST--JOHN REBUKED FOR EXCLUSIVENESS. (Luk 9:46-48)
(See on Mat 18:1-5).
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19. John answered, &c.--The link of connection here with the foregoing context lies in the words "in …
John answered, &c.--The link of connection here with the foregoing context lies in the words "in My name" (Luk 9:48). "Oh, as to that," said John, young, warm, but not sufficiently apprehending Christ's teaching in these things, "we saw one casting out devils in Thy name, and we forbade him: Were we wrong?" "Ye were wrong." "But we did because he followeth not us,'" "No matter. For (1) There is no man which shall do a miracle in My name that can lightly [soon] speak evil of Me' [Mar 9:39]. And (2) If such a person cannot be supposed to be 'against us,' you are to consider him 'for us.'" Two principles of immense importance. Christ does not say this man should not have followed "with them," but simply teaches how he was to be regarded though he did not--as a reverer of His name and a promoter of His cause. Surely this condemns not only those horrible attempts by force to shut up all within one visible pale of discipleship, which have deluged Christendom with blood in Christ's name, but the same spirit in its milder form of proud ecclesiastic scowl upon all who "after the form which they call a sect (as the word signifies, Act 24:14), do so worship the God of their fathers." Visible unity in Christ's Church is devoutly to be sought, but this is not the way to it. See the noble spirit of Moses (Num 11:24-29).
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20. THE PERIOD OF HIS ASSUMPTION APPROACHING CHRIST TAKES HIS LAST LEAVE OF GALILEE--THE SAMARITANS R…
THE PERIOD OF HIS ASSUMPTION APPROACHING CHRIST TAKES HIS LAST LEAVE OF GALILEE--THE SAMARITANS REFUSE TO RECEIVE HIM. (Luk 9:51-56)
the time was come--rather, "the days were being fulfilled," or approaching their fulfilment.
that he should be received up--"of His assumption," meaning His exaltation to the Father; a sublime expression, taking the sweep of His whole career, as if at one bound He was about to vault into glory. The work of Christ in the flesh is here divided into two great stages; all that preceded this belonging to the one, and all that follows it to the other. During the one, He formally "came to His own," and "would have gathered them"; during the other, the awful consequences of "His own receiving Him not" rapidly revealed themselves.
he steadfastly set his face--the "He" here is emphatic--"He Himself then." See His own prophetic language, "I have set my face like a flint" (Isa 50:7).
go to Jerusalem--as His goal, but including His preparatory visits to it at the feasts of tabernacles and of dedication (Joh 7:2, Joh 7:10; Joh 10:22-23), and all the intermediate movements and events.
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21. messengers before his face . . . to make ready for him--He had not done this before; but now, ins…
messengers before his face . . . to make ready for him--He had not done this before; but now, instead of avoiding, He seems to court publicity--all now hastening to maturity.
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22. did not receive him, because, &c.--The Galileans, in going to the festivals at Jerusalem, usually…
did not receive him, because, &c.--The Galileans, in going to the festivals at Jerusalem, usually took the Samaritan route [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 20.6.1], and yet seem to have met with no such inhospitality. But if they were asked to prepare quarters for the Messiah, in the person of one whose "face was as though He would go to Jerusalem," their national prejudices would be raised at so marked a slight upon their claims. (See on Joh 4:20).
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Versículo 54
23. James and John--not Peter, as we should have expected, but those "sons of thunder" (Mar 3:17), wh…
James and John--not Peter, as we should have expected, but those "sons of thunder" (Mar 3:17), who afterwards wanted to have all the highest honors of the Kingdom to themselves, and the younger of whom had been rebuked already for his exclusiveness (Luk 9:49-50). Yet this was "the disciple whom Jesus loved," while the other willingly drank of His Lord's bitter cup. (See on Mar 10:38-40; and Act 12:2). That same fiery zeal, in a mellowed and hallowed form, in the beloved disciple, we find in Jo1 5:10; Jo3 1:10.
fire . . . as Elias--a plausible case, occurring also in Samaria (Kg2 1:10-12).
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24. know not what . . . spirit--The thing ye demand, though in keeping with the legal, is unsuited to…
know not what . . . spirit--The thing ye demand, though in keeping with the legal, is unsuited to the genius of the evangelical dispensation. The sparks of unholy indignation would seize readily enough on this example of Elias, though our Lord's rebuke (as is plain from Luk 9:56) is directed to the principle involved rather than the animal heat which doubtless prompted the reference. "It is a golden sentence of Tillotson, Let us never do anything for religion which is contrary to religion" [WEBSTER and WILKINSON].
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25. For the Son of man, &c.--a saying truly divine, of which all His miracles--for salvation, never d…
For the Son of man, &c.--a saying truly divine, of which all His miracles--for salvation, never destruction--were one continued illustration.
went to another--illustrating His own precept (Mat 10:23).
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Versículo 61
26. INCIDENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF DISCIPLESHIP. (Luk 9:57-62)
INCIDENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF DISCIPLESHIP. (Luk 9:57-62)
I will follow . . . but--The second disciple had a "but" too--a difficulty in the way just then. Yet the different treatment of the two cases shows how different was the spirit of the two, and to that our Lord addressed Himself. The case of Elisha (Kg1 19:19-21), though apparently similar to this, will be found quite different from the "looking back" of this case, the best illustration of which is that of those Hindu converts of our day who, when once persuaded to leave their spiritual fathers in order to "bid them farewell which are at home at their house," very rarely return to them. (Also see on Mat 8:21.)
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27. No man, &c.--As ploughing requires an eye intent on the furrow to be made, and is marred the inst…
No man, &c.--As ploughing requires an eye intent on the furrow to be made, and is marred the instant one turns about, so will they come short of salvation who prosecute the work of God with a distracted attention, a divided heart. Though the reference seems chiefly to ministers, the application is general. The expression "looking back" has a manifest reference to "Lot's wife" (Gen 19:26; and see on Luk 17:32). It is not actual return to the world, but a reluctance to break with it. (Also see on Mat 8:21.)
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Luke — Capítulo 9
MISSION OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES. (Luk 9:1-6) power and authority--He both qualified and authorized them.
Texto — Reina-Valera 1960
1Habiendo reunido a sus doce discípulos, les dio poder y autoridad sobre todos los demonios, y para sanar enfermedades.
2Y los envió a predicar el reino de Dios, y a sanar a los enfermos.
3Y les dijo: No toméis nada para el camino, ni bordón, ni alforja, ni pan, ni dinero; ni llevéis dos túnicas.
4Y en cualquier casa donde entréis, quedad allí, y de allí salid.
5Y dondequiera que no os recibieren, salid de aquella ciudad, y sacudid el polvo de vuestros pies en testimonio contra ellos.
6Y saliendo, pasaban por todas las aldeas, anunciando el evangelio y sanando por todas partes.
7Herodes el tetrarca oyó de todas las cosas que hacía Jesús; y estaba perplejo, porque decían algunos: Juan ha resucitado de los muertos;
8otros: Elías ha aparecido; y otros: Algún profeta de los antiguos ha resucitado.
9Y dijo Herodes: A Juan yo le hice decapitar; ¿quién, pues, es este, de quien oigo tales cosas? Y procuraba verle.
10Vueltos los apóstoles, le contaron todo lo que habían hecho. Y tomándolos, se retiró aparte, a un lugar desierto de la ciudad llamada Betsaida.
11Y cuando la gente lo supo, le siguió; y él les recibió, y les hablaba del reino de Dios, y sanaba a los que necesitaban ser curados.
12Pero el día comenzaba a declinar; y acercándose los doce, le dijeron: Despide a la gente, para que vayan a las aldeas y campos de alrededor, y se alojen y encuentren alimentos; porque aquí estamos en lugar desierto.
13Él les dijo: Dadles vosotros de comer. Y dijeron ellos: No tenemos más que cinco panes y dos pescados, a no ser que vayamos nosotros a comprar alimentos para toda esta multitud.
14Y eran como cinco mil hombres. Entonces dijo a sus discípulos: Hacedlos sentar en grupos, de cincuenta en cincuenta.
15Así lo hicieron, haciéndolos sentar a todos.
16Y tomando los cinco panes y los dos pescados, levantando los ojos al cielo, los bendijo, y los partió, y dio a sus discípulos para que los pusiesen delante de la gente.
17Y comieron todos, y se saciaron; y recogieron lo que les sobró, doce cestas de pedazos.
18Aconteció que mientras Jesús oraba aparte, estaban con él los discípulos; y les preguntó, diciendo: ¿Quién dice la gente que soy yo?
19Ellos respondieron: Unos, Juan el Bautista; otros, Elías; y otros, que algún profeta de los antiguos ha resucitado.
20Él les dijo: ¿Y vosotros, quién decís que soy? Entonces respondiendo Pedro, dijo: El Cristo de Dios.
21Pero él les mandó que a nadie dijesen esto, encargándoselo rigurosamente,
22y diciendo: Es necesario que el Hijo del Hombre padezca muchas cosas, y sea desechado por los ancianos, por los principales sacerdotes y por los escribas, y que sea muerto, y resucite al tercer día.
23Y decía a todos: Si alguno quiere venir en pos de mí, niéguese a sí mismo, tome su cruz cada día, y sígame.
24Porque todo el que quiera salvar su vida, la perderá; y todo el que pierda su vida por causa de mí, este la salvará.
25Pues ¿qué aprovecha al hombre, si gana todo el mundo, y se destruye o se pierde a sí mismo?
26Porque el que se avergonzare de mí y de mis palabras, de este se avergonzará el Hijo del Hombre cuando venga en su gloria, y en la del Padre, y de los santos ángeles.
27Pero os digo en verdad, que hay algunos de los que están aquí, que no gustarán la muerte hasta que vean el reino de Dios.
28Aconteció como ocho días después de estas palabras, que tomó a Pedro, a Juan y a Jacobo, y subió al monte a orar.
29Y entre tanto que oraba, la apariencia de su rostro se hizo otra, y su vestido blanco y resplandeciente.
30Y he aquí dos varones que hablaban con él, los cuales eran Moisés y Elías;
31quienes aparecieron rodeados de gloria, y hablaban de su partida, que iba Jesús a cumplir en Jerusalén.
32Y Pedro y los que estaban con él estaban rendidos de sueño; mas permaneciendo despiertos, vieron la gloria de Jesús, y a los dos varones que estaban con él.
33Y sucedió que apartándose ellos de él, Pedro dijo a Jesús: Maestro, bueno es para nosotros que estemos aquí; y hagamos tres enramadas, una para ti, una para Moisés, y una para Elías; no sabiendo lo que decía.
34Mientras él decía esto, vino una nube que los cubrió; y tuvieron temor al entrar en la nube.
35Y vino una voz desde la nube, que decía: Este es mi Hijo amado; a él oíd.
36Y cuando cesó la voz, Jesús fue hallado solo; y ellos callaron, y por aquellos días no dijeron nada a nadie de lo que habían visto.
37Al día siguiente, cuando descendieron del monte, una gran multitud les salió al encuentro.
38Y he aquí, un hombre de la multitud clamó diciendo: Maestro, te ruego que veas a mi hijo, pues es el único que tengo;
39y sucede que un espíritu le toma, y de repente da voces, y le sacude con violencia, y le hace echar espuma, y estropeándole, a duras penas se aparta de él.
40Y rogué a tus discípulos que le echasen fuera, y no pudieron.
41Respondiendo Jesús, dijo: ¡Oh generación incrédula y perversa! ¿Hasta cuándo he de estar con vosotros, y os he de soportar? Trae acá a tu hijo.
42Y mientras se acercaba el muchacho, el demonio le derribó y le sacudió con violencia; pero Jesús reprendió al espíritu inmundo, y sanó al muchacho, y se lo devolvió a su padre.
43Y todos se admiraban de la grandeza de Dios. Y maravillándose todos de todas las cosas que hacía, dijo a sus discípulos:
44Haced que os penetren bien en los oídos estas palabras; porque acontecerá que el Hijo del Hombre será entregado en manos de hombres.
45Mas ellos no entendían estas palabras, pues les estaban veladas para que no las entendiesen; y temían preguntarle sobre esas palabras.
46Entonces entraron en discusión sobre quién de ellos sería el mayor.
47Y Jesús, percibiendo los pensamientos de sus corazones, tomó a un niño y lo puso junto a sí,
48y les dijo: Cualquiera que reciba a este niño en mi nombre, a mí me recibe; y cualquiera que me recibe a mí, recibe al que me envió; porque el que es más pequeño entre todos vosotros, ese es el más grande.
49Entonces respondiendo Juan, dijo: Maestro, hemos visto a uno que echaba fuera demonios en tu nombre; y se lo prohibimos, porque no sigue con nosotros.
50Jesús le dijo: No se lo prohibáis; porque el que no es contra nosotros, por nosotros es.
51Cuando se cumplió el tiempo en que él había de ser recibido arriba, afirmó su rostro para ir a Jerusalén.
52Y envió mensajeros delante de él, los cuales fueron y entraron en una aldea de los samaritanos para hacerle preparativos.
53Mas no le recibieron, porque su aspecto era como de ir a Jerusalén.
54Viendo esto sus discípulos Jacobo y Juan, dijeron: Señor, ¿quieres que mandemos que descienda fuego del cielo, como hizo Elías, y los consuma?
55Entonces volviéndose él, los reprendió, diciendo: Vosotros no sabéis de qué espíritu sois;
56porque el Hijo del Hombre no ha venido para perder las almas de los hombres, sino para salvarlas. Y se fueron a otra aldea.
57Yendo ellos, uno le dijo en el camino: Señor, te seguiré adondequiera que vayas.
58Y le dijo Jesús: Las zorras tienen guaridas, y las aves de los cielos nidos; mas el Hijo del Hombre no tiene dónde recostar la cabeza.
59Y dijo a otro: Sígueme. Él le dijo: Señor, déjame que primero vaya y entierre a mi padre.
60Jesús le dijo: Deja que los muertos entierren a sus muertos; y tú ve, y anuncia el reino de Dios.
61Entonces también dijo otro: Te seguiré, Señor; pero déjame que me despida primero de los que están en mi casa.
62Y Jesús le dijo: Ninguno que poniendo su mano en el arado mira hacia atrás, es apto para el reino de Dios.
JAMIESON-FAUSSET-BROWN BIBLE COMMENTARY
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I. HEROD TROUBLED AT WHAT HE HEARS OF CHRIST DESIRES TO SEE HIM. (Luk 9:7-9)
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II. desired to see him--but did not, till as a prisoner He was sent to him by Pilate just before His …
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III. PETER'S CONFESSION OF CHRIST--OUR LORD'S FIRST EXPLICIT ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS APPROACHING DEATH, AN…
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IV. ashamed of me, and of my words--The sense of shame is one of the strongest in our nature, one of …
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V. not taste of death fill they see the kingdom of God--"see it come with power" (Mar 9:1); or see "…
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VI. JESUS TRANSFIGURED. (Luk 9:28-36)
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VII. as he prayed, the fashion, &c.--Before He cried He was answered, and while He was yet speaking He…
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VIII. there talked with him two men . . . Moses and Elias . . . appeared in glory--"Who would have beli…
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IX. spake--"were speaking."
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X. and when they were awake--so, certainly, the most commentators: but if we translate literally, it…
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XI. they departed--Ah! bright manifestations in this vale of tears are always "departing" manifestati…
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XII. a cloud--not one of our watery clouds, but the Shekinah-cloud (see on Mat 23:39), the pavilion of…
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XIII. my beloved Son . . . hear him--reverentially, implicitly, alone.
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XIV. Jesus was found alone--Moses and Elias are gone. Their work is done, and they have disappeared fr…
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XV. DEMONIAC AND LUNATIC BOY HEALED--CHRIST'S SECOND EXPLICIT ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DEATH AND RESURRECT…
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16. these sayings--not what was passing between them about His grandeur [MEYER, &c.], but what He was…
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17. and they feared--"insomuch that they feared." Their most cherished ideas were so completely dashe…
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18. STRIFE AMONG THE TWELVE WHO SHOULD BE GREATEST--JOHN REBUKED FOR EXCLUSIVENESS. (Luk 9:46-48)
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19. John answered, &c.--The link of connection here with the foregoing context lies in the words "in …
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20. THE PERIOD OF HIS ASSUMPTION APPROACHING CHRIST TAKES HIS LAST LEAVE OF GALILEE--THE SAMARITANS R…
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21. messengers before his face . . . to make ready for him--He had not done this before; but now, ins…
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22. did not receive him, because, &c.--The Galileans, in going to the festivals at Jerusalem, usually…
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23. James and John--not Peter, as we should have expected, but those "sons of thunder" (Mar 3:17), wh…
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24. know not what . . . spirit--The thing ye demand, though in keeping with the legal, is unsuited to…
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25. For the Son of man, &c.--a saying truly divine, of which all His miracles--for salvation, never d…
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26. INCIDENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF DISCIPLESHIP. (Luk 9:57-62)
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27. No man, &c.--As ploughing requires an eye intent on the furrow to be made, and is marred the inst…