- Bible
- Luke
- Chapter 11
- Verse 49
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
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Gill's Exposition
From the blood of Abel,.... "Righteous Abel", as in Mat 23:35 and so read the Arabic version here, and two manuscripts in the Bodleian library, and three of Stephens's copies; the Persic version…
See the notes at Mat 23:29-36. Luk 11:49 The wisdom of God - By the “wisdom of God,” here, is undoubtedly meant the Saviour himself. What he immediately says is not written in the Old Testament. Jesus…
Adam Clarke
The wisdom of God - These seem to be Luke's words, and to mean that Jesus, the wisdom of God, (as he is called, Co1 1:24), added the words which follow here, on that occasion: and this interpretation…
Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Mt. 23); for what he said in…
Cambridge Bible
the wisdom of God There is an allusion to 2Ch 24:20-22 (comp, 2Ch 36:14-21), but as the exact passage nowhere occurs in the O. T. some suppose that our Lord quotes (1) from a lost bookcalled -The…
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