Luke 19:48

Luke 19:48 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
• New International Version (NIV)Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.
• English Standard Version (ESV)but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.
• New King James Version (NKJV)and were unable to do anything; for all the people were very attentive to hear Him.

Context of Luke 19:48

46saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a robbers’ den.” 47He was teaching day after day in the temple [porches and courts]; but the chief priests and scribes and the leading men among the people were seeking [a way] to put Him to death, and they could not find anything that they could do, for all the people [stayed close to Him and] were hanging on to every word He said.

Luke 19:48 word by word

καὶ οὐχ εὕρισκον τὸ τί ποιήσωσιν· ὁ λαὸς γὰρ ἅπας ἐξεκρέματο αὐτοῦ ἀκούων.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Andκαίkai · andG2532
• couldεὑρίσκωheuriskō · to find/meetG2147
• notοὐou · noG3756
• whatτίςtis · which?G5101
• they might doποιέωpoieō · to do/make: doG4160
• forγάρgar · forG1063
• allἅπαςhapas · allG537
• the peopleλαόςlaos · a peopleG2992
• were very attentiveἐκκρεμάννυμιekkremamai · to hang uponG1582
• to hearἀκούωakouō · to hearG191
• himαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846

Cross-references for Luke 19:48

• Luke 20:19The scribes and the chief priests tried to [find a way to] arrest Him at that very hour, but they were afraid of the people; because they understood that He spoke this parable against them.
• Luke 22:2The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put Him to death; for they were afraid of the people [who listened devotedly to His teaching, and who respected His spiritual wisdom].
• Matthew 22:15Then the Pharisees went and conspired together plotting how to trap Him by [distorting] what He said.
• Nehemiah 8:3Then he read from it, in front of the open square which was in front of the Water Gate, from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and women, those who could understand; and all the people listened carefully to the Book of the Law.
• John 7:46The guards replied, “Never [at any time] has a man talked the way this Man talks!”
• Acts 16:14A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a dealer in purple fabrics who was [already] a worshiper of God, listened to us; and the Lord opened her heart to pay attention and to respond to the things said by Paul.

Commentaries on Luke 19:48

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 48Were very attentive to hear him - Or, They heard him with the utmost attention, , literally, They hung upon him, hearing. The same form of speech is used often by both Greek and Latin writers of the best repute. - Ex vultu dicentis, pendet omnium vultus. The face of every man hung on the face of the speaker. - Pendetque iterum narrantis ab ore. Virg. Aen. iv. 79 And she hung again on the lips of the narrator. The words of the evangelist mark, not only the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 48Could not find … - Were not able to accomplish their purpose; they did not know “how” to bring it about. 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 people become anxious about their salvation. They manifest it by hanging on the preaching of the gospel; by fixed…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 41-48Verses 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 Jesus wept over Jerusalem, he…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 45-48After entering Jerusalem as the Christ, Jesus performed an action that showed he was the Christ (see Malachi 3:1). He began to drive out from the temple those who exchanged money and merchants selling animals for offerings. This action was meant to restore true worship in the temple. It also symbolized the judgment that Jesus had just announced against Israel (19:41–44).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4848. were very attentive to hear him--hung upon His words.Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 19:48

• Jesus Continued
• Jesus, the Christ

In the dictionaries

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• Salvation
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• Attent; Attentive

Commentaries on Luke 19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings