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Luk_13:18-20. Comp. on Mat_13:31-33; Mar_4:31 f.
ἔλεγε οὖν ] does not introduce the parables which follow in an indefinite and random manner (Strauss, I. p. 626; comp. de Wette and Holtzmann), which is erroneously inferred from Luk_13:17 regarded as a closing remark, and denies to Luke even the commonest skill in the management of his materials; but after the conclusion of the preceding incident (Luk_13:17) Jesus, in consequence ( οὖν , see the critical remarks) of the joy manifested by the people, sees Himself justified in conceiving the fairest hopes on behalf of the Messianic kingdom, and these He gives utterance to in these parables. This is how we find it in Luke; and his mode of connecting them with the context is so consistent with the facts, that from this quarter there is no opposition to our assuming as original in this place what, if not an exact repetition of the two parables already spoken at Matthew 13 and Mark 4, was at least an express reference to them. Even in the source of his narrative of the journey from which Luke draws from Luk_9:51 onwards, they might have been connected with the foregoing section, Luk_13:10-17.
Luk_13:19. εἰς κῆπον ἑαυτοῦ ] into a garden belonging to himself, where it was protected, where he could observe and foster it, etc.
Luk_13:20. πάλιν ] once more; for the question of Luk_13:18 is repeated.