Luke 9:62 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 9:62

Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

BSB

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ASV

But Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

KJV

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

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Commentary

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Tertullian

On Modesty (220)

Yet I must necessarily prescribe you a law, not to stretch out your hand after the old things, not to look backwards: for "the old things are passed away," according to Isaiah; and "a renewing hath been renewed," according to Jeremiah; and "forgetful of former things, we are reaching forward," according to the apostle; and "the law and the prophets (were) until John," according to the Lord.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2273: “Fickle Followers” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1892)

SOMETIMES nobody appeared to come to Christ. He preached, but no followers appeared as the result of His preaching. At another time, we see that many came and desired to be numbered with His disciples, but they were not all of the right kind. Luke has collected here three instances which I think are typical of many more of those who seemed to be true followers of Jesus, who, nevertheless, did not continue with Him and were not really converts.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

No man, &c.--As ploughing requires an eye intent on the furrow to be made, and is marred the instant one turns about, so will they come short of salvation who prosecute the work of God with a distracted attention, a divided heart. Though the reference seems chiefly to ministers, the application is general.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εἶπεν	eipen	Said	G2036 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰησοῦς·	Iēsous	Jesus:	G2424 →
οὐδεὶς	oudeis	No [one]	G3762 →
ἐπιβαλὼν	epibalōn	having laid	G1911 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
χεῖρα	cheira	hand	G5495 →
ἐπ᾽	ep᾽	upon	G1909 →
ἄροτρον	arotron	[the] plow	G723 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
βλέπων	blepōn	looking	G991 →
εἰς	eis	on	G1519 →
τὰ	ta	the [things]	G3588 →
ὀπίσω	opisō	back	G3694 →
εὔθετός	euthetos	suitable	G2111 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
βασιλείᾳ	basileia	kingdom	G932 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ.¶	theou	of God.	G2316 →

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
Philippians 3:13
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
leads to
- Hebrews 12:1–2
  Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set…
- Philippians 3:12
  Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
- 1 Corinthians 9:24–27
  Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
- Psalms 27:4
  One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the…
- Philippians 3:8
  More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may…
Through
Hebrews 10:38
But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
leads to
- Galatians 3:11
  Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”
- Habakkuk 2:4
  Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—
- Romans 1:17
  For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”