Luke 17:13

Luk 17:13. ᾞραν φωνὴν, they lifted up their voices) An effort which their disease was scarcely admitting of. The one grateful Samaritan directed his voice to a pious use again in Luk 17:15.

Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament — English translation (T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1860) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Luk 17:13 . ἐπιστάτα : this word is peculiar to Lk., which suggests editorial revision of the story. ἐλέησον : a very indefinite request compared with that of the leper in Luk 5:12 f., whose remarkable words are given in identical terms by all the synoptists. The interest wanes here.

The Expositor's Greek Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll (1897–1910) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

they lifted up--their common misery drawing these poor outcasts together (Kg2 7:3), nay, making them forget the fierce national antipathy of Jew and Samaritan [TRENCH].

Jesus, &c.--(Compare Mat 20:30-33). How quick a teacher is felt misery, even though as here the teaching may be soon forgotten!

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Verse 13. They lifted up their voices] They cried with one accord-they were all equally necessitous, and there was but one voice among them all, though ten were engaged in crying at the same time. As they were companions in suffering, they were also companions in prayer. Prayer should be strong and earnest, when the disease is great and inveterate. Sin is the worst of all leprosies; it not only separates those to whom it cleaves from the righteous, but it separates them from God; and nothing but the pitying heart and powerful hand of Christ Jesus can set any soul free from it.

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(13) Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.—The Greek word for “Master” is again that which has been noticed as St. Luke’s usual equivalent for “Rabbi.” (See Note on Luk_5:5.) We may believe that the earlier instance of leprosy being cleansed (Mat_8:2), possibly many such instances (Mat_11:5), had in some way come to their knowledge.

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And when he saw them, he said unto them,.... When upon their loud cry he looked up, and towards them, and saw what a condition they were in, his compassion moved towards them, and he ordered them to do as follows;

go show yourselves unto the priests. The Ethiopic version reads in the singular number, "to the priest", as in Mat 8:4 whose business it was to inspect into this matter, to see whether a person was healed, or not; and if he was to, pronounce him clean, when a gift was offered according to the law, in Lev 14:2. So careful was Christ that the ceremonial law, which was as yet in force, might be strictly observed: though these ten lepers could not be viewed and examined by the priest together, but one after another; for so is the tradition of the Jews (a),

"two leprosies are not looked upon together, whether they be in one man, or in two men; but he views one, and either shuts him up, or declares or dismisses him, and then goes to a second:''

And it came to pass that as they went, they were cleansed; before they came to the priests, whilst they were in the way, they at once found themselves entirely healed of their disease; as Christ very likely gave them reason to believe they should; whereby his power was seen in it; and it was a clear case, that it was owing to him, and not the priests, that they had their cleansing. On the nature of the disease of leprosy, and of the likeness there is between that and sin, and of the agreement between the cleansing of a leper, and the cleansing of a sinner by the blood of Christ; see Gill on Luk 5:12. Here it may be observed, that as these lepers had a cure while they were in the way of their duty, going, as Christ ordered them; so generally speaking, it is in the way of means, in an attendance on ordinances, that souls receive a spiritual cure from Christ: the man at Bethesda's pool waited long, and had healing at last; it is good to watch at Wisdom's gates, and wait at the posts of her door; faith in Christ, whereby the heart is purified, comes by hearing the word of God.

(a) Misn. Negaim, c. 3. sect. 1.

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13 And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.

Ver. 13. And they lifted up their voices] These sought themselves only in their prayers, as do hypocrites; and nought esteemed the love of Christ. So did those that fasted to themselves, Zec 7:6; more to get off their chains than their sins. Ephraim "is an empty vine, he beareth fruit to himself," Hos 10:1. The Church keeps her fruit for her Beloved.

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13. Lifted up their voice—Raising a cry to be heard by Jesus in the distance.

Master—Neither his honour, nor his name, nor his power is unknown to them. Here on the confines of Samaria, and among the outcasts of society, Jesus, Master, are familiar words.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

13. καὶ αὐτοὶ ἦραν φωνήν . They took the initiative. Here ἦραν φωνήν agrees with πόρρωθεν, just as in 16:24 φωνήσας agrees with ἀπὸ μακρόθεν. Comp. ἐπαίρειν φωνήν (11:27) and ὑψοῦν φωνήν (Gen 39:15, Gen 39:18). This phrase occurs Act 4:24; Jdg 21:2; 1Sa 11:4. For ἐπιστάτα see on 5:5.

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