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LUKE 11:44 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 11:43Luke 11:45
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.”
Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division — from now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. The division Micah 7:6 describes as a sign of the end-time family breakdown is fulfilled in Jesus' presence: the decision about Jesus divides families along the lines of faith and unbelief, and the divisive presence of the Messiah is the sign of the kingdom's arrival.

Church Fathers on Luke 11:44

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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