Luke 24:25 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 24:25

Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

BSB

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ASV

And he said unto them, O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

KJV

Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

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Commentary

3 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter 16), Section 5 (202)

Therefore did the Lord also say to His disciples after the resurrection, "O thoughtless ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?" And again does He say to them: "These are the words which I spoke unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

O fools - The word “fool” sometimes is a term of reproach denoting “wickedness.” In this sense we are forbidden to employ it in addressing another, Mat 5:22. That, however, is a different word in the Greek from the one which occurs here. The one there used implies contempt, but the one employed in this place denotes “weakness or dulness.” He reproached them for not seeing what he had himself so clearly predicted, and what had been foretold by the prophets. The word used in the original does not imply as much “reproach” as the word “fool” does among us.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1980: “Folly of Unbelief” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1887)

Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken." Luke 24:25. THE TWO DISCIPLES who walked to Emmaus and conversed together, and were sad, were true believers. We may not judge men by their occasional feelings. The possession of gladness is no clear evidence of grace; and the existence of depression is no sure sign of insincerity. The brightest eyes that look for heaven have sometimes been holden so that they could not see their heart's true joy.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
αὐτὸς	autos	He himself	G846 →
εἶπεν	eipen	said	G2036 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
αὐτούς·	autous	them;	G846 →
ὦ	ō	O	G5599 →
ἀνόητοι	anoētoi	foolish	G453 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
βραδεῖς	bradeis	slow	G1021 →
τῇ	tēa	<the>	G3588 →
καρδίᾳ	kardia	of heart	G2588 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
πιστεύειν	pisteuein	to believe	G4100 →
ἐπὶ	epi	in	G1909 →
πᾶσιν	pasin	all	G3956 →
οἷς	hois	that	G3739 →
ἐλάλησαν	elalēsan	spoke	G2980 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
προφῆται·	prophētai	prophets;	G4396 →

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

The walk

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
Mark 16:14
Later, as they were eating, Jesus appeared to the Eleven and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 15:5
  and that He appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve.
- Luke 24:36–43
  While they were describing these events, Jesus Himself stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”
- Hebrews 3:7–8
  Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
- Psalms 95:8–11
  do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
- John 20:27
  Then Jesus said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.”
Through
Mark 7:18
“Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him,
leads to
- Matthew 15:16–17
  “Do you still not understand?” Jesus asked.
- Hebrews 5:11
  We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
Through
Mark 9:19
“O unbelieving generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to Me.”
leads to
- Numbers 14:11
  And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?