Luke 18:5 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 18:5

yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’”

BSB

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ASV

yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest she wear me out by her continual coming.

KJV

Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.

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Commentary

3 voices

Bonaventure

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 18 (1257)

Yet, because this widow troubles me, through the persistence of prayer, which conquers all things, according to that passage in Judges fourteen concerning the wife of Samson, who "wept before him during the seven days of the feast, and at length on the seventh day, …

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

She weary me - Ὑπωπιαζῃ με, Stun me. A metaphor taken from boxers, who bruise each other, and by beating each other about the face blacken the eyes. See 1Co 9:27.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

The object of the parable before us, is explained by Christ Himself. To use the words of an old divine, "The key hangs at the door." "Jesus told His disciples a parable, to show them that they should always pray and not give up." These words, be it remembered, are closely connected with the solemn doctrine of the second coming, with which the preceding chapter concludes. It is perseverance in prayer, during the long weary intervals between the first and second comings, which Jesus is urging His disciples to keep up. In that interval, we ourselves are standing.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
διά	dia	because	G1223 →
γε	ge	yet	G1065 →
τὸ	to	it	G3588 →
παρέχειν	parechein	occasioning	G3930 →
μοι	moi	me	G3165 →
κόπον	kopon	trouble	G2873 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
χήραν	chēran	widow	G5503 →
ταύτην	tautēn	this	G3778 →
ἐκδικήσω	ekdikēsō	I will avenge	G1556 →
αὐτήν,	autēn	her,	G846 →
ἵνα	ina	so that	G2443 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
τέλος	telos	end	G5056 →
ἐρχομένη	erchomenē	coming	G2064 →
ὑπωπιάζῃ	hupōpiazē	she may exhaust	G5299 →
με.¶	me	me.	G3165 →

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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The walk8

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
Luke 11:8
I tell you, even though he will not get up to provide for him because of his friendship, yet because of the man’s persistence, he will get up and give him as much as…
leads to
- Genesis 32:26
  Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
- Colossians 4:12
  Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in the…
- Romans 15:30
  Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.
- Luke 18:1–8
  Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart:
- Matthew 15:22–28
  And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”
Through
Luke 18:39
Those who led the way admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
leads to
- Genesis 32:26–28
  Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
- Psalms 141:1
  I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.
Through
Judges 16:16
Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,
leads to
- Proverbs 7:21–23
  With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Luke