Lawyer

How Nave’s arranged it

• (One versed in the Mosaic law)
• Test Jesus with questionsMatthew 22:35Luke 10:25–37
• Jesus' remarks againstLuke 11:45–52
• ZenasTitus 3:13
• See Litigation

The passages, in Bible order (4)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Matthew 22:35

   One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:

   ›Commentary on Matthew 22:352 voices

   “Then one of them, which was a lawyer,.... Or that was "learned", or "skilful in the law", as the Syriac and Persic versions, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel read.

   “A lawyer - Νομικος, a teacher of the law. What is called lawyer, in the common translation, conveys a wrong idea to most readers: my old MS. renders the word in the same way I have done. These teachers of the law were the same as the scribes, or what Dr. Wotton calls letter-men, whom he supposes to be the same as the Karaites, a sect of the Jews who rejected all the traditions of the elders, and admitted nothing but the written word. See Wotton’s Mishna, vol. i. p.

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2. Luke 10:25–37

   One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

   ›Commentary on Luke 10:25–372 voices

   “And behold a certain lawyer stood up,.... From his seat, having been hearing Christ preach, very likely, in some synagogue; when and where this was, is not certain.

   “A certain lawyer - One who professed to be well skilled in the laws of Moses, and whose business it was to explain them. Stood up - Rose - came forward to address him. Tempted him - Feigned a desire to be instructed, but did it to perplex him, or to lead him, if possible, to contradict some of the maxims of the law. Inherit eternal life - Be saved. This was the common inquiry among the Jews. “They” had said that man must keep the commandments - the written and oral law.

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3. Luke 11:45–52

   One of the experts in the law told Him, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us as well.”

   ›Commentary on Luke 11:45–522 voices

   “A reproof which exalts the meek is generally hateful to the proud man. When therefore our Saviour was blaming the Pharisees as men who were wandering far from the right path and fallen into unbecoming practices, the body of Lawyers were struck with consternation. Hence it is said, Then answered one of the Lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.

   “Then answered one of the lawyers,.... Or Scribes, as the Syriac and Persic versions read: and so the Ethiopic version calls him, "a Scribe of the city": the Scribes and lawyers were the same sort of persons who were interpreters of the law, and equally tenacious of the traditions of the elders Christ had referred to, as the Pharisees, and in general were Pharisees; though some of them might be of the sect of the Sadducees.

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4. Titus 3:13

   Do your best to equip Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, so that they will have everything they need.

   ›Commentary on Titus 3:132 voices

   “Bring Zenas the lawyer,....

   “Bring Zenas the lawyer - - This person is not elsewhere mentioned in the New Testament, and nothing more is known of him. He belonged doubtless to that class of persons so often mentioned in the New Testament as lawyers; that is, who were regarded as qualified to expound the Jewish laws; see the notes at Mat 22:35. It does not mean that he practiced law, in the modern sense of that phrase.

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