Luke 20 Enduring Word (2024)

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What is the main point in Luke 20? ›

In this passage, Luke describes how Jerusalem's religious leaders fight with Jesus over His authority. Among these critics are scribes, priests, Pharisees, and Sadducees.

The underlying meaning is that as the Son of God, Jesus has proper authority over religious leaders. However, the leaders of His era will kill Him, and God will destroy them.

Luke 20:45–47 Teaches against religious leaders' lack of integrity. Jesus is clearly, in a very sobering way for any church leader, pronouncing condemnation upon those who lead without humility, or authenticity, or integrity, or justice.

ESV But he said to them, "How can they say that the Christ is David 's son? NIV Then Jesus said to them, "Why is it said that the Messiah is the son of David? NASB But He said to them, 'How is it that they say the Christ is David's son?

Luke documents how Jesus ushered in God's Kingdom on Earth by creating a new Israel that includes the poor, outcasts, and marginalized. Jesus reverses the world order and elevates the humble.

In the new realm of God, security is to be found in God. alone, and not in one's mate, or in one's progeny, or even in the ownership of people. People in the time to come will neither marry, nor allow themselves to be given in. marriage. Rather their security will be founded instead in their relationship to God.

Jesus doesn't give specifics, but the people can't understand how God could take the Jewish leaders out of power. Jesus explains that it's because of Him. He is the cornerstone of God's kingdom. God's kingdom is built on Him. The Jewish leaders can reject Him all they want, but it makes no difference.

He's saying that God granted them—Jerusalem's religious leaders—authority over His peoples' expression of worship; over the centuries their predecessors have beaten and killed the Lord's prophets. The generation represented in this passage will kill His Son. So, God will destroy them and establish new leadership.

In this chapter, which details Jesus' teachings on Monday of the final week, there are the following units; the Pharisees questioned Jesus' authority (Luke 20:1-8); he gave the parable of the wicked husbandmen (Luke 20:9-18); he answered the question of tribute to Caesar (Luke 20:19-26); he exposed the question of the ...

(The passage, Jesus points out, declares that God is — present tense — the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not that God was their God. Therefore, Jesus concludes, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob must in some sense still be alive; hence, the necessity of resurrection.)

What is the meaning of Luke 20 46? ›

In this verse, Jesus challenges their authority. However, He offers no invitation for them to present their defense. Rather, He gives a warning to the people that they should not follow these faulty religious leaders. Jesus needs neither witnesses nor their confession to judge them.

Father, may I never be guilty of the sins that Jesus condemned in these verses: the sins of self-righteousness, hypocrisy, and taking advantage of the less fortunate! And, dear God, please forgive me for those times when I've wanted to appear religious but lived my life in hypocrisy and sin.

The parable implies that they are warring against God, refusing to return what is due to God. The “beloved son” of the parable represents Jesus, who is also called “beloved” in Luke 3:22.

The surrounding dialogue is the chief priests, scribes, and Sadducees questioning the authority and teachings of Jesus. Jesus responds that his teachings and authority are not of earthly origin. He asks them, if the Messiah is the Son of David, why David calls the Messiah “Lord” (Luke 20:42-44).

Here, Jesus is saying the resurrected will prove to be sons of God because they will live for eternity and have a different relationship with others—one not based on marriage and marriageability.

A major theme in Luke's Gospel is God's care for people who were seen as insignificant in the society of his day. Specifically, this referred to women, children, the poor, and disreputable “sinners”. Luke thus gives a prominent place to women in his gospel (1:5-2:52; 7:36-50; 8:1-4; 10:38-42; 15:8-10).

Jesus has told a parable which local religious leaders rightly interpret as a warning directed at themselves: He is the Son of God and if they kill Him, God will destroy them. They become so angry that they try harder to kill Him.

Luke shows Jesus—fully God and fully human—moving among the people in compassion to free them from the myriad of things oppressing them. The disregarded, the outcast, the forgotten and the marginalized all got to see and experience the love of Christ—even if Jesus had to confront the Jewish leaders to do it.