Luca 7:28

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

Vă spun că dintre cei născuţi din femei, nu este nici unul mai mare decît Ioan Botezătorul. Totuş, cel mai mic în Împărăţia lui Dumnezeu, este mai mare decît el.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Among: Luke 1:14, Luke 1:15, Luke 3:16

but: Luke 9:48, Luke 10:23, Luke 10:24, Matthew 11:11, Matthew 13:16, Matthew 13:17, Ephesians 3:8, Ephesians 3:9, Colossians 1:25-27, Hebrews 11:39, Hebrews 11:40, 1 Peter 1:10-12

Reciprocal: Matthew 21:25 - baptism Mark 1:2 - Behold Luke 1:76 - shalt be Luke 20:4 - baptism John 5:35 - was

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I say unto you----here is not a greater prophet,.... The word "prophet" is left out in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions, as in Matthew 11:11.

Matthew 11:11- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in Matthew 11:2-19.

Luke 7:29

The people - The common people.

That heard him - That heard “John.”

The publicans - The tax-gatherers, the worst kind of people, who had, however, been converted.

Justified God - Considered God as “just” or “right” in the counsel which he gave by John - to wit, in calling people to repentance, and in denouncing future wrath on the impenitent. Compare Matthew 11:19.

Being baptized ... - They “showed” that they approved of the message of God by submitting to the ordinance which he commanded - the ordinance of baptism. This verse and the following are not to be considered as the words of “Luke,” but the continuation of the discourse of our Lord. He is saying what took place in regard to John. Among the common people he was approved and obeyed among the rich and learned he was despised.

Luke 7:30

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected ... - It appears from Matthew 3:7 that some of the Pharisees came to John to be baptized; but still this is entirely consistent with the supposition that the great mass of Pharisees and lawyers rejected him.

The counsel of God - The counsel of God toward them was the solemn admonition by John to “repent” and be baptized, and be prepared to receive the Messiah. This was the command or revealed will of God in relation to them. When it is said that they “rejected” the counsel of God, it does not mean that they could frustrate his purposes, but merely that they violated his commands. Men cannot frustrate the “real” purposes of God, but they can contemn his messages, they can violate his commands, and thus they can reject the counsel which he gives them, and treat with contempt the desire which he manifests for their welfare.

Against themselves - To their own hurt or detriment. God is wise and good. He knows what is best for us. He, therefore, that rejects what God commands, rejects it to his own injury. It “cannot” be well for any mortal to despise what God commands him to do.

Luke 7:31-35

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 11:16-19. “And the Lord said.” This clause is wanting in almost all the manuscripts, and is omitted by the best critics.