Luke 12:58 — Community Reflections

LUKE 12:58 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.”

He took hold of the man, healed him, and sent him on his way — the healing of the man with dropsy on the Sabbath repeats the bent-over woman's healing: the same Sabbath, the same silence from the questioners, the same livestock analogy (which of you would not pull your son or ox out of a well on the Sabbath?), the same absence of answer. The deliberate repetition enforces the point that the Sabbath objection has no answer.

Church Fathers on Luke 12:58

Our Lord having described a rightful difference, next teaches us a rightful reconciliation, saying, When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, as you are in the way, give diligence that you may be delivered from him, &c. As if He says, When your adversary is bringing you to judgment, give diligence, that is, try every method, to be released from him. Or give diligence, that is, although you have nothing, borrow in order that you may be released from him, lest he…
Theophylact · 11th century

Where you will suffer want until you pay the last farthing; and this is what He adds, I say to you, you shall not depart hence.
Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

It seems to me that He is speaking of the present judges, and of the way to the present judgment, and of the prison of this world. For by these things which are visible and at hand, ignorant men are wont to gain improvement. For often He gives a lesson, not only from future good and evil but from present, for the sake of His ruder hearers.
Chrysostom · 4th century

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