And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
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Gill's Exposition
He said therefore,.... The following parable, with the above said design and view:
a certain nobleman; the son of a great family, as the Syriac version renders it; of noble descent, of an…
Barnes' Notes
He spake a parable - This parable has in some respects a resemblance to the parable of the “talents” in Mat 25:14-28, but it is not the same. They differ in the following respects: That was spoken…
Adam Clarke
And as they heard these things - I believe the participle of the present tense, here, is used for the participle of the past, or rather that the participle of the present conveys sometimes the sense…
Our Lord Jesus is now upon his way to Jerusalem, to his last passover, when he was to suffer and die; now here we are told,
I. How the expectations of his friends were raised upon this occasion: They…
Cambridge Bible
11-27. The Parable of the Pounds.
11. because he was nigh to Jerusalem Probably therefore the parable was spoken on the journey.
should immediately appear Literally, "be manifested to view."The…