Lk 9:62
No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the
· What is wrong of looking back?
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Does it mean that whoever want
to serve in the
· teaching on the road (Lk 9:57-60; Mt 8:19-22)
· Jesus’ response to the third of 3 would-be disciples
· “I’ll follow you, Lord,” said the man, “but....”
· Response of the second would-be disciple: the father was not dead but he would follow Jesus after his father’s death.
· Proverbial saying in an agricultural society — the ploughman who looks back will not drive a straight furrow.
· Jesus requires the immediate action from the third would-be disciple to follow him. Apparent counter example is given by Elisha: Elijah allows Elisha to go back and say good-bye and allows Elisha to make a farewell feast (1Ki 19:19-21).
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The business of the
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Some refers the subject to Lot’s wife looking
back (Gen 19:26), and Jesus on another occasion said “Remember Lot’s wife” (Lk
17:32), but in that passage Jesus was warning His hearers to flee from a future
destruction comparable with the destruction of
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Christians should always remind themselves of
the whole-heartedness that Jesus is demanding us and
one should always serve in the
Lk 14:26
If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and
children, his brothers and sisters — yes, even his own life — he cannot be my
disciple.
· Does it contradict the law of loving one’s neighbour which Jesus emphasized and radicalized?
· saying to large crowds travelling with Jesus
· about cost of being a disciple
· parallel found in Mt 10:37 (when Jesus sends out the 12 disciples)
· “Hate” means loving less (see passages in Mt 10:37 with the phrase “more than” and Dt 21:15): loving less does not mean positive hatred.
· Mk 10:29-30 seems to indicate the abandonment of natural responsibilities which contradicts 1Ti 5:8. However, Jesus actually emphasizes family responsibilities in Mk 7:10-13.
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It is natural for men and women to make what
provision they can for their nearest and dearest. Jesus’ emphasis lays on the
necessity of treating the
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Because of the resistance of His hearers to
accept this necessity with seriousness, Jesus insists on it in a most arresting
and challenging language. The intent is to shock the hearers into a sense of
the urgency of the
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Just as material wealth can come between us and
the
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To expand and extend the
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Mt 10:37 is followed by Mt 10:38 which talks
about taking up the cross. Putting one’s family behind the