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Selected Verse: Luke 6:23 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Lu 6:23 |
King James |
Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| leap for joy--a livelier word than "be exceeding glad" of "exult" (Mat 5:12). |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Leap for joy (σκιρτήσατε)
See Luk 1:41, Luk 1:44. Compare Matthew, be exceeding glad (ἀγαλλιἄσθε: see on Pe1 1:6).
Their fathers
Peculiar to Luke. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Did - unto the prophets - See Kg1 18:4; Kg1 19:20; Ch2 24:21; Ch2 36:16; Neh 9:26. |
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)