Luke 10 · Verse 26

Luke 10:26

He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
Luke 10:26, King James Version

Luke 10:26 in other translations

BSB“What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”
WEBHe said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”
ASVAnd he said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
YLTAnd he said unto him, ‘In the law what hath been written? how dost thou read?'
DARBYAnd he said to him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
BBEAnd he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it?
WebsterHe said to him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

What does Luke 10:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
26. What is written in the law--apposite question to a doctor of the law, and putting him in turn to the test [Bengel].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes
Verse 26. What is written, &c. Jesus referred him to the law as a safe rule, and asked him what was said there. The lawyer was doubtless endeavouring to justify himself by obeying the law. He trusted to his own works. To bring him off from that ground--to make him feel that it was an unsafe foundation, Jesus showed him what the law required, and thus showed him that he needed a better righteousness than his own. This is the proper use of the law. By comparing ourselves with that we see our own defects, and are thus prepared to welcome a better righteousness than our own that of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus the law becomes a schoolmaster to lead us to him, Gal 3:24

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 10:25-37

If we speak of eternal life, and the way to it, in a careless manner, we take the name of God in vain. No one will ever love God and his neighbour with any measure of pure, spiritual love, who is not made a partaker of converting grace. But the proud heart of man strives hard against these convictions. Christ gave an instance of a poor Jew in distress, relieved by a good Samaritan. This poor man fell among thieves…

Read the full comment on Luke 10:25-37 →

Luke 10:26 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ὁho<the>G3588
δὲdeAndG1161
εἶπενeipenHe saidG2036
πρὸςprostoG4314
αὐτόν·autonhim;G846
ἐνenInG1722
τῷtōtheG3588
νόμῳnomōlawG3551
τίtiwhatG5101
γέγραπται;gegraptaihas been written?G1125
πῶςpōsHowG4459
ἀναγινώσκεις;¶anaginōskeisread you?G314

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Luke 10:26

  • Romans 10:5

    For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

  • Isaiah 8:20

    To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

  • Galatians 3:21-22

    Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

  • Romans 3:19

    Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

  • Galatians 3:12-13

    And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

  • Romans 4:14-16

    For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Isa 8:20; Ro 3:19; 4:14-16; 10:5; Ga 3:12,13,21,22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Luke 10:25

    And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

  • Luke 10:26

    He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

  • Luke 10:27

    And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

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Luke 10:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y él le dijo: ¿Qué está escrito en la ley? ¿cómo lees?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et il lui dit: Qu’est-il écrit dans la loi? Comment lis-tu?
German
Elberfelder 1871		Er aber sprach zu ihm: Was steht in dem Gesetz geschrieben? wie liesest du?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		At ille dixit ad eum: In lege quid scriptum est? quomodo legis?