Luke 13:14 — Community Reflections

LUKE 13:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.”

He said to them, 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 narrow door communicates that the kingdom's entrance is not wide enough to accommodate the unreformed and uncommitted. The effort required is not earning salvation but the decisive, wholehearted response that the kingdom demands. The many who try and cannot enter are those who assumed entry without making the necessary response.

Church Fathers on Luke 13:14

He soon explained that He had been speaking of the synagogue, showing, that He truly came to it, who preached in it, as it is said, And he was teaching in one of the synagogues.
Ambrose · 4th century

He teaches indeed not separately, but in the synagogues; calmly, neither wavering in any thing, nor determining aught against the law of Moses; on the Sabbath also, because the Jews were then engaged in the hearing of the law.
Chrysostom · 4th century

Now that the Incarnation of the Word was manifested to destroy corruption and death, and the hatred of the devil against us, is plain from the actual events; for it follows, And behold there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity, &c. He says spirit of infirmity, because the woman suffered from the cruelty of the devil, forsaken by God because of her own crimes or for the transgression of Adam, on account of which the bodies of men incur infirmity and death. But God…
Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

Read all 16 entries in the readerCatena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

Publish a reflection on this verse

No reflections on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!