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Luke 20 — Sermon Preparation
Jesus faces challenges about his authority, tells the parable of the wicked tenants, and sparring over taxes, resurrection, and David's son. Below is a research summary for Luke 20, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- classic sermon excerpts
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Luke 20 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ἀμπελών | ampelṓn | G290 | 6 | vineyard |
| γεωργός | geōrgós | G1092 | 5 | husbandman |
| γυνή | gynḗ | G1135 | 7 | wife, woman |
| λαός | laós | G2992 | 6 | people |
| ἀποθνῄσκω | apothnḗskō | G599 | 5 | be dead, death, die, lie a-dying |
| υἱός | huiós | G5207 | 6 | child, foal, son |
| Καῖσαρ | Kaîsar | G2541 | 4 | Cæsar |
How preachers through history handled this text
17 public-domain excerpts on Luke 20, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“It is common for those who design to undermine any truth of God, to load it with difficulties. But we wrong ourselves, and wrong the truth of Christ, when we form our notions of the world of spirits by this world of sense. There are more worlds than one; a present visible world, and a future unseen world; and let every one compare this world and that world, and give the preference in his thoughts and cares to that which deserves them. Believers shall obtain the resurrection from the dead, that is the blessed resurrection. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Luke 20:27–38 (Public Domain)
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