Luke 19:48
And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
Luke 19:48 in other translations
| BSB | Yet they could not find a way to do so, because all the people hung on His words. |
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| WEB | They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said. |
| ASV | and they could not find what they might do; for the people all hung upon him, listening. |
| YLT | and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him. |
| DARBY | and did not find what they could do, for all the people hung on him to hear. |
| BBE | But they were not able to do anything, because the people all kept near him, being greatly interested in his words. |
| Webster | And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him. |
What does Luke 19:48 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
Very attentive. Literally, hung upon him to hear him. The word denotes an anxious desire, a fixed attention, a cleaving to him, and an unwillingness to leave him, so that they might hear his words. This is always the case when men become anxious about their salvation. They manifest it by hanging on the preaching of the gospel; by fixed attention; and by an unwillingness to leave the place where the word of God is preached. In view of the fact that the Lord Jesus wept over Jerusalem, we may remark:
(1.) It was on account of the sins and danger of the inhabitants, and of the fact that they had rejected offered mercy.
(2.) There was occasion for weeping. Jesus would not have wept had there been no cause for it. If they were in no danger, if there was no punishment in the future world, why should he have wept? When the Lord Jesus weeps over sinners, it is the fullest proof that they are in danger,
(3.) Sinners are in the same danger now. They reject Christ as sinners did then. They despise the gospel as they did then. They refuse now to come to him as the inhabitants of Jerusalem did. Why are they not then in the same danger?
(4.) Deep feeling, gushing emotions, lively affections, are proper in religion. If the Saviour wept, it is not improper for us to weep--it is right. Nay, can it be right not to weep over the condition of lost man.
(5.) Religion is tenderness and love. It led the Saviour to weep, and it teaches us to sympathize and to feel deeply. Sin hardens the heart, and makes it insensible to every pure and noble emotion; but religion teaches us to feel "for others' woes," and to sympathize in the danger of others.
(6.) Christians and Christian ministers should weep over lost sinners. They have souls just as precious as they had then; they are in the same danger; they are going to the judgment-bar; they are wholly insensible to their danger and their duty.
"Did Christ o'er sinners weep?
And shall our cheeks be dry?
Let floods of penitential grief
Burst forth from every eye.
"The Son of God in tears,
Angels with wonder see!
Be thou astonished, O my soul;
He shed those tears for thee.
"He wept that we might weep;
Each sin demands a tear;
In heaven alone no sin is found,
And there's no weeping there."
(3) "were very attentive" or, "hanged on him"
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 19:41-48
Who can behold the holy Jesus, looking forward to the miseries that awaited his murderers, weeping over the city where his precious blood was about to be shed, without seeing that the likeness of God in the believer, consists much in good-will and compassion? Surely those cannot be right who take up any doctrines of truth, so as to be hardened towards their fellow-sinners. But let every one remember, that though…
Luke 19:48 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 19:48
- Nehemiah 8:3
And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
- Acts 16:14
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
- Luke 20:19-20
And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them. And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
- John 7:46-49
The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
- Luke 22:2-4
And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people. Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
- Matthew 22:15-16
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
20:19,20; 22:2-4; Mt 22:15,16
were very attentive to hear him. or, hanged on him.[Kremannumi autou akouo ,] literally, "they hung upon him hearing;" which is beautifully expressive of their earnest attention, and high gratification.
Ne 8:3; Joh 7:46-49; Ac 16:14
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Context
- Luke 19:47
And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
- Luke 19:48
And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
Luke 19:48 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y no hallaban qué hacerle, porque todo el pueblo estaba suspenso oyéndole. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et ils ne trouvaient rien qu’ils puissent faire; car tout le peuple se tenait suspendu à ses lèvres pour l’entendre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und sie fanden nicht, was sie tun sollten, denn das ganze Volk hing an seinem Munde. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et non inveniebant quid facerent illi. Omnis enim populus suspensus erat, audiens illum. |