Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Luke: Chapter 6]
hearts about Jesus. He now asks in addition (\ep'\) an open
question that brings the whole issue into the open. {A life}
(\psuch•n\). So the Revised Version. The rabbis had a rule:
_Periculum vitae pellit sabbatum_. But it had to be a Jew whose
life was in peril on the sabbath. The words of Jesus cut to the
quick. {Or to destroy it} (\• apolesai\). On this very day these
Pharisees were plotting to destroy Jesus (verse 7).
6:10 {He looked round about on them all} (\periblepsamenos\).
First aorist middle participle as in Mr 3:5, the middle voice
giving a personal touch to it all. Mark adds "with anger" which
Luke here does not put in. All three Gospels have the identical
command: {Stretch forth thy hand} (\exteinon t•n cheira sou\).
First aorist active imperative. {Stretch out}, clean out, full
length. All three Gospels also have the first aorist passive
indicative \apekatestath•\ with the double augment of the double
compound verb \apokathist•mi\. As in Greek writers, so here the
double compound means complete restoration to the former state.
6:11 {They were filled with madness} (\epl•sth•san anoias\) First
aorist passive (effective) with genitive: In 5:26 we saw the
people filled with fear. Here is rage that is kin to insanity,
for \anoias\ is lack of sense (\a\ privative and \nous\, mind).
An old word, but only here and 2Ti 3:9 in the N.T. {Communed}
(\dielaloun\), imperfect active, picturing their excited
counsellings with one another. Mr 3:6 notes that they bolted
out of the synagogue and outside plotted even with the Herodians
how to destroy Jesus, strange co-conspirators these against the
common enemy. {What they might do to Jesus} (\ti an poi•saien
I•sou\). Luke puts it in a less damaging way than Mr 3:6; Mt
12:14. This aorist optative with \an\ is the deliberative
question like that in Ac 17:18 retained in the indirect form
here. Perhaps Luke means, not that they were undecided about
killing Jesus, but only as to the best way of doing it. Already
nearly two years before the end we see the set determination to
destroy Jesus. We see it here in Galilee. We have already seen it
at the feast in Jerusalem (Joh 5:18) where "the Jews sought the
more to kill him." John and the Synoptics are in perfect
agreement as to the Pharisaic attitude toward Jesus.
6:12 {He went out into the mountains to pray} (\exelthein auton
eis to oros proseuxasthai\). Note \ex-\ where Mr 3:13 has
{goeth up} (\anabainei\). Luke alone has "to pray" as he so often
notes the habit of prayer in Jesus. {He continued all night} (\•n
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