Colossians 4:14 BSB

Colossians 4:14

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas send you greetings.

BSB

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ASV

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas salute you.

KJV

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.

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Commentary

3 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book III (202)

That he was not merely a follower, but also a fellow-labourer of the apostles, but especially of Paul, Paul has himself declared also in the Epistles, saying: "Demas hath forsaken me, ... and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me." From this he shows that he was always attached to and inseparable from him. And again he says, in the Epistle to the Colossians: "Luke, the beloved physician, greets you."

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Luke, the beloved physician - This is generally supposed to be the same with Luke the evangelist. See the preface to the notes on this gospel. Some, however, suppose them to be different persons; because, where it is evident that Luke the evangelist is meant, he never has more than his simple name Luke; and because the apostle is supposed to intend a different person here, he adds, ὁ ιατρος ὁ αγαπητος, the beloved physician.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It is conjectured that Luke "the beloved physician" (the same as the Evangelist), may have first become connected with Paul in professionally attending on him in the sickness under which he labored in Phrygia and Galatia (in which latter place he was detained by sickness), in the early part of that journey wherein Luke first is found in his company (Ac 16:10; compare Note, see on Ga 4:13).

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἀσπάζεται	Aspazetai	Greets	G782 →
ὑμᾶς	humas	you	G4771 →
Λουκᾶς	Loukas	Luke	G3065 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ἰατρὸς	iatros	physician	G2395 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
ἀγαπητὸς	agapētos	beloved	G27 →
καὶ	kai	and also	G2532 →
Δημᾶς.¶	Dēmas	Demas.	G1214 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Philemon 1:24
as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
leads to
- 2 Timothy 4:10–11
  because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
- Colossians 4:10
  My fellow prisoner Aristarchus sends you greetings, as does Mark the cousin of Barnabas. You have already received instructions about him: If he comes to you, welcome him.
- Acts 15:37–39
  Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark.
- Acts 19:29
  Soon the whole city was in disarray. They rushed together into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia.
- Acts 12:12
  And when he had realized this, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered together and were praying.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Colossians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Colossians