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Lukas 5:28

Maka berdirilah Lewi dan meninggalkan segala sesuatu, lalu mengikut Dia.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Matthew;   Self-Denial;   Thompson Chain Reference - Leaving All;   Renunciation;   Self-Denial;   Self-Indulgence-Self-Denial;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Matthew;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Disciple, Discipleship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Apostles;   Disciples;   Luke, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Magnificat;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Attributes of Christ;   Character;   Fear ;   Man (2);   Matthew ;   Wealth (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Publicans;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 24;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka berdirilah Lewi dan meninggalkan segala sesuatu, lalu mengikut Dia.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka ditinggalkannya semua, lalu bangun mengikut Yesus.

Contextual Overview

27 After these thynges, he went foorth, & sawe a publicane named Leui, sittyng at the receipt of custome: and he sayde vnto hym, folowe me. 28 And he left all, rose vp, & folowed him. 29 And Leui made hym a great feast in his owne house. And there was a great companie of publicanes, and of other that sate [at meate] with them. 30 But they that were scribes and pharisees among them, murmured agaynst his disciples saying: Why do ye eate and drynke with publicanes and sinners? 31 And Iesus aunswered, and saide vnto them, They that are whole, neede not the phisition: But they that are sicke. 32 I came not to call the ryghteous: but sinners to repentaunce. 33 And they sayde vnto hym: Why do the disciples of Iohn fast often, & pray, and the disciples of the pharisees also: but thyne eate and drynke? 34 He sayde vnto them. Can ye make the chyldren of the weddyng chaumber fast, whyle the brydegrome in with the? 35 But the dayes wyll come, when the brydegrome also shalbe taken away fro them: then shall they fast in those dayes. 36 He spake also vnto them a similitude. No man putteth a peece of a newe garment, into an olde vesture: For then the newe renteth [the olde,] and the peece that was [taken] out of the newe, agreeth not with the olde.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 5:11, Luke 9:59-62, 1 Kings 19:19-21, Matthew 19:22-27

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 19:21 - gave unto Matthew 9:9 - named Matthew 19:27 - we have forsaken Luke 14:33 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he left all,.... His company, his business, and all the profits of it:

rose up; directly; such power went along with the words of Christ, that he could not withstand it:

and followed him; not only in a literal, but in a spiritual sense, and became a disciple of his.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 9:9-13.

Luke 5:29

Made him a great feast - This circumstance “Matthew,” or “Levi” as he is here called, has omitted in his own gospel. This fact shows how little inclined the evangelists are to say anything in favor of themselves or to praise themselves. True religion does not seek to commend itself, or to speak of what it does, even when it is done for the Son of God. It seeks retirement; it delights rather in the consciousness of doing well than in its being known; and it leaves its good deeds to be spoken of, if spoken of at all, by others. This is agreeable to the direction of Solomon Proverbs 27:2; “Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.” This feast was made expressly for our Lord, and was attended by many publicans, probably people of wicked character; and it is not improbable that Matthew got them together for the purpose of bringing them into contact with our Lord to do them good. Our Saviour did not refuse to go, and to go, too, at the risk of being accused of being a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners, Matthew 11:19. But his motives were pure. In the thing itself there was no harm. It afforded an opportunity of doing good, and we have no reason to doubt that the opportunity was improved by the Lord Jesus. Happy would it be if all the “great feasts” that are made were made in honor of our Lord; happy if he would be a welcome guest there; and happy if ministers and pious people who attend them demeaned themselves as the Lord Jesus did, and they were always made the means of advancing his kingdom. But, alas! there are few places where our Lord would be “so unwelcome” as at great feasts, and few places that serve so much to render the mind gross, dissipated, and irreligious.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. And he left all — καταλιπων - completely abandoning his office, and every thing connected with it. He who wishes to preach the Gospel, like the disciples of Christ, must have no earthly entanglement. If he have, his whole labour will be marred by it. The concerns of his own soul, and those of the multitudes to whom he preaches, are sufficient to engross all his attention, and to employ all his powers.


 
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