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LUKE 11:39 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 11:38Luke 11:40
“And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.”
It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes — blessed are the servants the master finds awake on his return, so that he will dress himself to serve, have them recline at the table, and come and wait on them. The reversal — the master serving the servants — is the kingdom's social inversion made concrete: the Messiah who came not to be served but to serve will serve his faithful servants at the eschatological banquet.

Church Fathers on Luke 11:39

The Pharisee, while our Lord still continued on speaking, invites Him to his own house. As it is said And while he was speaking, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

Luke expressly says, And he spoke these things, to show that He had not quite finished what He had purposed to say, but was somewhat interrupted by the Pharisee asking Him to dine.

Bede · 8th century

For in order to relate this, Luke has made a variation from Matthew, at that place where both had mentioned what out Lord said concerning the sign of Jonah, and the queen of the south, and the unclean spirit; after which discourse Matthew says, While he yet talked to the people, behold his mother and his brethren stood without desiring to speak to him, but Luke having also in that discourse of our Lord related some of our Lord’s sayings which Matthew omitted, now departs from…

Augustine · 4th century
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