Luke 11:19 — Community Reflections

LUKE 11:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.”

The second woe against the Pharisees targets their love of the most important seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces alongside the tithe of mint, rue, and every herb — they are meticulous on the smallest commands while neglecting justice and the love of God. These they should practice without neglecting the others — the woe is not against precision but against the selective precision that substitutes for justice.

Church Fathers on Luke 11:19

The suspicion of the Pharisees being utterly without reason, they dared not divulge it for fear of the multitude, but pondered it in their minds. Hence it is said, But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself will be brought to desolation.
Chrysostom · 4th century

He answered not their words but their thoughts, that so at least they might be compelled to believe in His power, who saw into the secrets of the heart.
Bede · 8th century

Herein also He shows His own kingdom to be undivided and everlasting. Those then who possess no hope in Christ, but think that He casts out devils through the chief of the devils, their kingdom, He says, is not everlasting. This also has reference to the Jewish people. For how can the kingdom of the Jews be everlasting, when by the people of the law Jesus is denied, who is promised by the law? Thus in part does the faith of the Jewish people impugn itself; the glory of the…
Ambrose · 4th century

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