Luke 11:40 — Community Reflections

LUKE 11:40 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?”

Understand this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into — the thief-in-the-night image communicates the unpredictability of the hour rather than the nature of the coming. You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. Unpredictability is not a problem to be solved but a condition to be inhabited through perpetual readiness.

Church Fathers on Luke 11:40

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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