Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Luke 17:25
But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
25. But first must he suffer many things ] It was essential to our Lord’s training of the Twelve at this period of His ministry, that He should again and again as in solemn refrain to all His teaching warn them of this coming end. See Luk 18:31.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
See the notes at Mar 8:31.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 25. But first must he suffer many things] As the cup of the iniquity of this people shall not be full till they have finally rejected and crucified the Lord of life and glory, so this desolation cannot take place till after my death.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Before my kingdom shall appear in that glory, I must suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. You may be seduced to think that I am going to put on a crown as a secular prince to deliver you from your enemies. Alas! I am going to a cross. I shall have a day, but this is mine enemies day, and the power of darkness, both with reference to me and you. Look for nothing in or from this generation but to see me mocked, scourged, spit upon, buffeted, hanged upon a cross, rejected by men; these will be the issues of Divine providence as to this generation; look for better things hereafter, but look for no better from or in this generation.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
25. But first . . . suffer,&c.This shows that the more immediate reference of Lu17:23 is to an event soon to follow the death of Christ.It was designed to withdraw the attention of “His disciples”from the glare in which His foregoing words had invested theapproaching establishment of His kingdom.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
But first must he suffer many things,…. By cruel mockings, spitting, buffeting, scourging, and, at last, death itself; all which must be, and were before his day came, or he entered into his glory, or came in it:
and be rejected of this generation; as the Messiah, and be treated with the utmost scorn and contempt, and in the most base and ignominious manner: being put to the death of the cross, and hanged upon the accursed tree: all which were necessary, “must” be; on account of the purposes and decrees of God; the covenant engagements of Christ; the predictions of the prophets of the Old Testament, and his own; and the salvation of his people.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
But first ( ). The second coming will be only after the Cross.
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
Rejected. See on disallowed, 1Pe 2:4; and tried, 1Pe 1:7.
Fuente: Vincent’s Word Studies in the New Testament
1) “But first must he suffer many things,” (proton de dei auton polla pathein) “Yet, it becomes him first (in priority) to suffer many things,” and be taken away by suffering and death before He can return, as prophesied, Mar 8:31; Luk 4:22; Isa 53:1-12; Zec 13:7; Mat 26:31.
2) “And be rejected of this generation.” (kai apodoki mast henai apo tes geneas tautes) “And be rejected from this generation, this Jewish generation, Joh 1:11; Mat 23:37-39; 1Th 2:14-15.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
(25) But first must he suffer many things.See Notes on Mat. 16:21; Mat. 17:22. The interposition of this prophecy of the Passion in a discourse which bears primarily on the Second Advent is an individualising feature of this record of St. Lukes.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
25. Of this generation To this generation belong not his second advent, but his internal kingdom; his sufferings, and his death. How absurd and contradictory to a whole mass of texts, the idea that our Lord, or his disciples, taught that his second coming was in their generation.
Luk 17:26-27 are nearly identical with Mat 24:37-39.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
“But first must he suffer many things and be rejected of this generation.”
But He must first suffer on earth. That He is unquestionably speaking of Himself now comes out (although those who had heard His inner words to the disciples earlier could hardly have doubted it). For He now declares that before that glorious appearing must come the times of suffering. For He Himself (the Son of Man – Luk 17:24; compare Luk 9:22) must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. First He must be manifested in suffering and then He will be manifested in glory. So this is the way in which the days of the Son of Man must end, in the Day of suffering that will culminate in the Day of glory. And for the disciples, in between the suffering and the glory, will be the days of longing for the days of the Son of Man, both past and future.
The Crucifixion and Coming of The Son Of Man In Glory Will Issue In The Final Judgment and The Final Consummation (Luk 17:26-37)
In the Section chiasmus this parallels Luk 17:20-21. It expands on the idea of the Kingly Rule of God being among them by pointing out that one day will come the great day of separation between those in the Kingly Rule of God and those who are not. In that day those in the Kingly Rule of God will be take out from among those who are not, and then those who are left will be judged.
Analysis.
a As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of man” (Luk 17:26).
b “They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all” (Luk 17:27).
c “In the same way even as it occurred in the days of Lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built, but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all” (Luk 17:28-29).
d “In the same way will it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed. In that day, he that will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away, and let him that is in the field similarly not return back” (Luk 17:30-31).
e “Remember Lot’s wife” (Luk 17:32).
d “Whoever will seek to gain his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life will preserve it” (Luk 17:33).
c “I say to you, In that night there will be two men on one bed, the one will be taken, and the other will be left” (Luk 17:34).
b “There will be two women grinding together, the one will be taken, and the other will be left” (Luk 17:35).
a “And they answering say to him, “Where, Lord?” And he said to them, “Where the carcase is, there will the vultures also be gathered together” (Luk 17:36-37).
Note that in ‘a’ the scene is set and in the parallel we are given the end solution. In ‘b’ some were saved and some were destroyed, and in the parallel the same applies. In ‘c’ we have the same situation connected with Lot and the same parallel. In ‘d’ men must do the opposite of normal and in the parallel the same applies. In ‘e’ central to all is the injunction to ‘Remember Lot’s wife’ who preferred the worldly city of Sodom to security with God and perished. The previous passage had centred on ‘remember that there will be false messiahs’. Here the warning goes even deeper, ‘remember Lot’s wife’.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Luk 17:25 . What will yet first precede the Parousia , and (1) in respect of the Messiah Himself: He must (comp. Luk 9:22 , Luk 24:26 ) first suffer and be rejected, Luk 17:25 ; and (2) in respect of the profane world: it will continue in security in its usual earthly doing and striving, until the crisis, universally ruinous for it, shall suddenly break in as in the days of Noah and of Lot, Luk 17:26-30 . See further on Luk 17:31 .
Fuente: Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer’s New Testament Commentary
25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
Ver. 25. But first must he suffer ] He must, because God would have it so. Voluntas Dei, necessitas rei.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
25 30. ] The events which must precede the coming: and (1) Luk 17:25 , as regards the Lord Himself , His sufferings and rejection, primarily by this generation, but in implication, by the world; and (2) Luk 17:26-30 , which unfold this implication as regards the whole world, which shall be in its state of carelessness and sensuality at that time: see notes on Mat 24:37-39 . The example of the days of Lot is added here, and thereby the sanction of the Lord of Truth given to another part of the sacred record, on which modern scepticism has laid its unhallowed hands.
Fuente: Henry Alford’s Greek Testament
Luk 17:25 . , etc.; the Passion must come before the glorious lightning-like advent. What you have to do I meantime is to prepare yourselves for that .
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
first must He suffer. Compare the four announcements: Luk 9:22, Luk 9:44; Luk 17:25; Luk 18:31-33, and the Structure on p. 1461.
rejected. This was the subject of the third period of the Lord’s ministry. See App-119.
of = on the part of. Greek apo. App-104. Not the same word as in verses: Luk 17:7, Luk 17:15, Luk 17:20.
this generation = this (present) generation. See note on Mat 11:16.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
25-30.] The events which must precede the coming: and (1) Luk 17:25, as regards the Lord Himself,-His sufferings and rejection, primarily by this generation,-but in implication, by the world;-and (2) Luk 17:26-30, which unfold this implication as regards the whole world, which shall be in its state of carelessness and sensuality at that time: see notes on Mat 24:37-39. The example of the days of Lot is added here,-and thereby the sanction of the Lord of Truth given to another part of the sacred record, on which modern scepticism has laid its unhallowed hands.
Fuente: The Greek Testament
Luk 17:25. , first) before that He enters upon that glory, in which He is about to come.-, be rejected) in such a way as if He were not King. After the mention of His glory, immediately again comes the mention of His passion.-, on the part of this generation) living in this age. It is hereby implied that the day of the Son of man would not be in that age.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
must: Luk 9:22, Luk 18:31, Luk 18:33, Luk 24:25, Luk 24:26, Luk 24:46, Mat 16:21, Mat 17:22, Mat 17:23, Mat 20:18, Mat 20:19, Mar 8:31, Mar 9:31, Mar 10:33
rejected: 1Sa 8:7, 1Sa 10:19, Isa 53:3, Mat 21:42, Mar 12:10, Joh 1:11, Joh 12:38
Reciprocal: Jdg 21:21 – dance Joh 12:48 – rejecteth
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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The preceding verse predicts the second coming of Christ, an event many centuries in the future when Jesus was here. Like it is in Matthew’s account, Jesus alternates between the two periods. In the present verse he drops back from the second coming to predict another important fact to occur first (or before the second coming), which was his own personal sufferings. That experience was to end in his crucifixion and death, all of which would be a factor in the distress referred to above. (See Mat 27:25, with the comments.)
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Luk 17:25. But first must he suffer, etc. Peculiar to Luke, and a proof that the discourse is put in its proper place. This prediction, however, gives no clew to the time and place of His coming, but cautions them against expecting a temporal kingdom and triumph now, since the sufferings of the King were first to come.
Be rejected of this generation. To be taken literally, as an intimation of the speedy rejection of our Lord. The verses which follow point to a virtual rejection by the world, to continue until His return.
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
HIS SUFFERINGS
Luk 17:25. But in the first place, it behooveth Him to suffer many things, and to be set at naught by this generation. The whole panorama of the Messianic history was simultaneously moving before His eyes. He saw the cruel mob, the frowning tribunals, the rugged cross, the bloody death, and the open sepulcher before His eyes, anticipating Him in a little more than a week; and at the same time the unutterable glory of His second coming was equally vivid and conspicuous.