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Luke 11:49

Luke 11:49
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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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Luke 11:47-51

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…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Luke 11:37-54

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

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…