Introduction:
| Darby
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| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
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Chapter 1:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Mark John
Introduction to Luke
The Gospel of Luke sets the Lord before us in the character of Son of man,
revealing God in delivering grace among men. Hence the present operation of
grace and its effect are more referred to, and even the present time
prophetically, not the substitution of other dispensations as in Matthew,
but of saving heavenly grace. At first, no doubt (and just because He is to
be revealed as man, and in grace to men), we find Him, in a prefatory part
in which we have the most exquisite picture of the godly remnant, presented
to Israel, to whom He had been promised, and in relationship with whom He
came into this world; but afterwards this Gospel presents moral principles
which apply to man, whosoever he may be, whilst yet manifesting Christ for
the moment in the midst of that people. This power of God in grace is
displayed in various ways in its application to the wants of men. After the
transfiguration, which is recounted earlier in the narration by Luke
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than in the other Gospels, we find the judgment of those who rejected the
Lord, and the heavenly character of the grace which, because it is grace,
addresses itself to the nations, to sinners, without any particular
reference to the Jews, overturning the legal principles according to which
the latter pretended to be, and as to their external standing were
originally called at Sinai to be, in connection with God. Unconditional
promises to Abraham, etc., and prophetic confirmation of them, are another
thing. They will be accomplished in grace, and were to be laid hold of by
faith. After this, we find that which should happen to the Jews according
to the righteous government of God; and, at the end, the account of the
death and resurrection of the Lord, accomplishing the work of redemption.
We must observe that Luke (who morally sets aside the Jewish system, and
who introduces the Son of man as the man before God, presenting Him as the
One who is filled with all the fulness of God dwelling in Him bodily, as
the man before God, according to His own heart, and thus as Mediator
between God and man, and centre of a moral system much more vast than that
of Messiah among the Jews)-we must observe, I repeat, that Luke, who is
occupied with these new relations (ancient, in fact, as to the counsels of
God), gives us the facts belonging to the Lord's connection with the Jews,
owned in the pious remnant of that people, with much more development than
the other evangelists, as well as the proofs of His mission to that people,
in coming into the world-proofs which ought to have gained their attention,
and fixed it upon the child who was born to them.
In Luke, I add, that which especially characterises the narrative and gives
its peculiar interest to this Gospel is, that it sets before us that which
Christ is Himself. It is not His official glory, a relative position that
He assumed; neither is it the revelation of His divine nature, in itself;
nor His mission as the great Prophet. It is Himself, as He was, a man on
the earth-the Person whom I should have met every day had I lived at that
time in Judea, or in Galilee.
I would add a remark as to the style of Luke, which may facilitate the
study of this Gospel to the reader. He often brings a mass of facts into
one short general statement, and then expatiates at length on some isolated
fact, where moral principles and grace are displayed.
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1] That is, as to the contents of the Gospel. In the ninth chapter His
last journey up to Jerusalem begins; and thence on to the latter part of
the eighteenth, where (v. 31) His going up to that city is noticed, the
evangelist gives mainly a series of moral instructions, and the ways of God
in grace now coming in. In verse 35 of chapter 18 we have the blind man of
Jericho already noticed as the commencement of His last visit to Jerusalem.
Introduction:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Chapter 1:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Mark John
This version of Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament is a derivative of an electronic version, Copyright 1995 by L. Hodgett. Used by permission. This material may be freely copied for private use or for distribution without charge but must not be used commercially without written permission from the compiler--L. Hodgett. A special thanks to L. Hodgett for permission to create and post this version of Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament.
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
Job
Psalm
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Acts
Romans
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
James
1 Peter
2 Peter
1 John
2 John
3 John
Jude
Revelation
