Luke 19:27

And when he had thus spoken,.... When he had delivered the above parable, in order to remove the prejudices of his disciples, and the multitude, concerning a temporal kingdom, and to give them true…

For I say ... - These are the words of the “nobleman” declaring the principles on which he would distribute the rewards of his kingdom. But those mine enemies - By the punishment of those who would…

Those - enemies - bring hither - the Jews, whom I shall shortly slay by the sword of the Romans.

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…

mine enemies They had once been -citizens," Luk 19:14.

slay them before me Archelaus had similarly put some of his political opponents to death. This, too, corresponds to ulterior truths the ruin and…