Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary

Adam Clarke Commentary

The son of peace - In the Jewish style, a man who has any good or bad quality is called the son of it. Thus, wise men are called the children of wisdom, Matthew 11:19; Luke 7:35. So, likewise, what a man is doomed to, he is called the son of, as in Ephesians 2:3, wicked men are styled the children of wrath: so Judas is called the son of perdition, John 17:12; and a man who deserves to die is called, 2 Samuel 12:5, a son of death. Son of peace in the text not only means a peaceable, quiet man, but one also of good report for his uprightness and benevolence. It would have been a dishonor to this mission, had the missionaries taken up their lodgings with those who had not a good report among them who were without.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible

The son of peace - That is, if the “house” or “family” be “worthy,” or be disposed to receive you in “peace” and kindness. See Matthew 10:13. “The son of peace” means one “disposed” to peace, or peaceful and kind in his disposition. Compare Matthew 1:1.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

And if the son of peace be there,.... If there be any elect person or persons in the house, whom God has chosen to partake of peace by the blood of Christ, and the benefits arising from it; and of a conscience peace in their souls, upon the best foundation; and of eternal peace in the world to come, though yet in a state of nature; and which may be known by this sign;

your peace shall rest upon it: the salutation, or wish of peace, shall be well taken, and gratefully received; and upon this you will be kindly invited into the house, and used well by, those of the family;

if not, it shall turn to you again: if there are no sons of peace, no elect persons there, your salutation, or wish of peace and prosperity to the family, will be despised and rejected, and will return to you without any good effect upon them.

Geneva Study Bible

(b) So say the Hebrews: that is, he that favours the doctrine of peace and embraces it.

Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament

A son of peace (υιος ειρηνης — huios eirēnēs). A Hebraism, though some examples occur in the vernacular Koiné papyri. It means one inclined to peace, describing the head of the household.

Vincent's Word Studies

If a son of peace be there

So Rev. A Hebraism, referring to the character of the head of the house, and the tone of the household. Compare Job 21:9.

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.

A son of peace — That is, one worthy of it.

The Fourfold Gospel

1. And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: but if not, it shall turn to you again. See .

John Trapp Complete Commentary

6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.

Ver. 6. See Matthew 10:11-15.

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible

Luke 10:6. If the Son of peace be there,— That is, "If the master of the house be a virtuous well-disposed person, and receive you kindly, your peace shall rest upon it: your blessing, which ye gave at your entrance, shall, by my power, be made effectual to that purpose." See Matthew 10:12.

Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary

6.] υἱὸς εἰρ., a (or more probably, the,—as words like πατήρ, μήτηρ, νἱός, &c., are often definite though anarthrous) son of peace: i.e. persons receptive of your message of peace;—see reff.

Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament

Luke 10:6. ὁ υἱὸς εἰρήνης) If there be there one who is a son of peace, one worthy of peace.— ἐπαναπαύσεται, shall rest) in such a way as that you shall sensibly perceive it. As to the term, comp. 1 Peter 4:14. Peace, when once it has gone out, does not cease to seek until it has found a place wherein it may stay.— ἐπʼ αὐτὸν) This may be referred to υἱὸν εἰρήνης primarily, to οἶκον by implication.(92)

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on "Luke 10:5"

Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament

Son of peace be there; a man of a peaceful spirit, who will kindly receive you, and to whom you may give the blessing of God’s peace.

Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament

Luke 10:6. A son of peace, i.e., one ‘worthy,’ one whose heart was ready to receive the message of peace they brought.

Upon him, or, ‘it,’ as in E. V. The original may refer either to the man or the house, the former is the more natural sense.

The Expositor's Greek Testament

Luke 10:6_{. ([98] [99]), a form of the 2nd fut. ind. passive, probably belonging to the spoken Greek of the period. Again in} Revelation 14:13_{.— : in any case the good wish will not be lost. If there be no “son of peace” in the house to receive it, it will come back with a blessing to the man who uttered it.}

_{[98] Codex Sinaiticus (sæc. iv.), now at St. Petersburg, published in facsimile type by its discoverer, Tischendorf, in 1862.}

_{[99] Codex Vaticanus (sæc. iv.), published in photographic facsimile in 1889 under the care of the Abbate Cozza-Luzi.}

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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

if = if indeed. A condition of uncertainty. App-118.

if not. Greek. ei (App-118.) mega (App-105).

to. Greek. epi. App-104. Not the same word as in Luke 7:15, Luke 7:30, Luke 7:34.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

the Son

1 Samuel 25:17; Isaiah 9:6; Ephesians 2:2,3; 5:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:16; 1 Peter 1:14; *Gr:; James 3:18

it shall

Psalms 35:13; 2 Corinthians 2:15,16