Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 9:19 - 9:19

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 9:19 - 9:19


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19. Ἰωάννην τὸν βαπτιστήν. See on Luk 9:7-9. The answer of the Apostles shewed the sad truth that Jesus had come to His own possessions and His own people received Him not; that the Light had shined in the darkness, and the darkness had not comprehended it. He had not come to force belief, but to win conviction. He had never even openly proclaimed His Messiahship, but left His works to speak for Him. God’s method is not to ensure faith by violence; as the Fathers say, “Force is alien to God” (βία ἐχθρὸν Θεῷ).

ἄλλοι δέ. Some of the disciples told Jesus that the multitudes took Him for John the Baptist; others of them that they took Him for Elijah, &c.