Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Luke 18:41
saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
41. Lord ] In St Mark the title given is Rabboni, the highest form of the title Rabbi.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
41-43. What wilt thou, c.totry them to deepen their present consciousness of need; and to drawout their faith in Him. Lord “Rabboni” (Mr10:51); an emphatic and confiding exclamation. (See on Joh20:16.)
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Saying, what wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?…. Is it alms thou askest? or is it thy sight thou wouldst have restored?
and he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight; this he chose, this was his request, and what he cried so vehemently for; and which he believed Christ, the son of David, was able to do for him.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? ( ;). Same idiom in Mark 10:51; Matt 20:32 which see, the use of without with aorist subjunctive (or future indicative). See same references also for “that I may see again” without verb before . Three uses of here (verses Luke 18:41; Luke 18:42; Luke 18:43).
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
1) “Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?” (ti soi theleis poieso) “What do you want most (in priority) that I may do?” Mat 20:32; Mat 15:28; Joh 5:6; Mar 10:51. Jesus knew what the man wanted, but the man himself needed to cry out his dire need for the benefit of the witnesses, those who did not know him to be blind.
2) “And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.” (ho de elpen kurie hina anablepso) “Then he said, Lord, that I may see again,” and no one can call Jesus Lord, but by the Holy Spirit, 1Co 12:3. My eyes may be opened, Mat 20:33; Mar 10:51. What more important thing could he have asked. Even so those blinded by sin and the God of this world can find salvation and true light by calling on Him, Joh 8:12; 2Co 4:3-4. Mark uses the term “Rabbona” which is a confiding exclamation of commitment and trust, as also used Joh 20:16.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
(41) Lord, that I may receive my sight.As St. Luke uses Lord (kyrie) for St. Marks Rabboni, it may be inferred that he uses it in a somewhat higher sense than either of his two words for Master. (See Notes on Luk. 5:5; Luk. 8:24.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
“What do you wish that I should do to you?” And he said, “Lord, that I may receive my sight.” ’
“What do you wish that I should do to you?” Jesus must, of course, have known. But the man must be made to express his faith in words. And the man now more awed and humbled addresses Him as ‘Lord.’ He asks that he might receive his sight.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Luk 18:41 . : in Mk. .
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
wilt = desirest. See App-102.
Lord. See App-98. B. a.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
What: 1Ki 3:5-15, Mat 20:21, Mat 20:22, Rom 8:25, Phi 4:6
Reciprocal: Est 5:3 – What Psa 146:8 – openeth Mar 10:51 – What Joh 1:38 – What Joh 5:6 – Wilt
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
SEEKING SIGHT
Lord, that I may receive my sight.
Luk 18:41
Of all afflictions that can happen to anybody, blindness is one of the most terrible. But to every bodily condition, at any rate to every bodily disease, there seems to be a corresponding moral one. We are spiritually blind and our prayer must be the words of the text, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
I. We must know our condition.The first thing of all is, to be aware that we are morally blind. And the next thing after we have discovered that is, to be quite sure that if we go to Him He will restore us, to be quite sure that if we ask Him, with the true desire to see, He will let us see. How is this to be done? People often say: How can these things be? One day comes after another, very much like the one before it, but what can I do? What step can I possibly take in order that I may reach Him, and receive my sight?
II. We must desire sight.Do we really desire? That is the point. Do we really desire to see? Is it the object of our life to get our sight from Him, or are we contented, and think that in this darkness that is around us we see all that is to be seen?
III. We must make an effort.Special opportunities come at different times when efforts can be made, perhaps better than at other times, towards recovering our sight. And I imagine that there is no season more fit than the approaching season of Lent for us to look into a matter like this. Oh, yes, you say, it comes every year, I know, terribly dull forty daysoh, terrible! It passes by and nothing comes of it. Nothing will ever come of it unless we make an effort. We shall be exactly where we are now, at Easter, unless we make an effort. The season of Lent may come, the notices may be given out in church; we may read day after day the different Lessons, Epistles and Gospels, but nothing will come of it, absolutely nothing, unless we make an effort. It is something that must come from withinthat desire to see, that desire to know that we do not see all there is to be seen. There must be that desire from within, that effort to reach Him, that effort to see.
Rev. Sir B. Savory.
Illustration
Here are the words of Milton on his blindness
Seasons return, but not to me returns
The sight of vernal bloom, or summer rose,
But cloud instead, and everduring dark
Surround me; from the cheerful ways of men
Cut off; and for the book of knowledge fair,
Presented with a universal blank.
The following lines, written shortly before his death, show how fully he recognised the Divine purpose in his affliction
On my bended knee
I recognise Thy purpose, clearly shown;
My vision Thou hast dimmd that I may see
Thyself, Thyself alone.
Fuente: Church Pulpit Commentary
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A large gift of money or some regular income would have relieved the blind man of his financial worries. But instead of requesting such a favor, he asked for the restoration of his sight, which would enable him to care for himself afterwards.