LUKE 11:54 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.”
Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to — the eschatological urgency sharpens as Jesus journeys toward Jerusalem. Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, it will be too late: those who appeal to shared meals and teaching in the streets will be told I don't know you or where you come from. The external association with Jesus — eating and drinking with him, listening to his teaching in public — does not constitute the personal knowledge that the narrow door requires.
Church Fathers on Luke 11:54
A reproof which exalts the meek is generally hateful to the proud man. When therefore our Savior was blaming the Pharisees for transgressing from the right path, the body of Lawyers were struck with consternation. Hence it is said, Then answered one of the lawyers, and said to him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also.
In what a grievous state is that conscience, which hearing the word of God thinks it a reproach against itself, and in the account of the punishment of the wicked perceives its own condemnation.
Now the Lawyers were different from the Pharisees. For the Pharisees being separated from the rest had the appearance of a religious sect; but those skilled in the Law were the Scribes and Doctors who solved legal questions.
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