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Ch. xix. 7.
c - a 2. καὶ "διεγόγγυζον ot? Φαρισαῖοι b Rom. xvi.
2. Phil. ii. 29.
2 o. Te Min SBDL.
course, or better still the address to the Capernaum gathering. That they are all three authentic utterances of Jesus need not be doubted. The first has synoptical attestation, being found in Mt. also; the second has value only as a supplement to the first, and was hardly worth inventing as an independent parable; the third is too good to have been an invention by Lk. or any other person, and can only have proceeded from the great Master. Wendt (L. J.) accepts all three as authentic, and taken from the Logia of Mt.
Vv. 1, 2. Historic introduction.— ἦσαν ἐγγίζοντες: either were in the act of approaching Jesus at a given time (Meyer), or were in the habit of doing so. The position of αὐτῷ before ἐγγίζοντες in ΝΒ favours the latter (Schanz). On the other hand, it is not improbable that the reference is to the Capernaum gathering. We may have here, in fact, another version of that story taken from the Logia, the occasion slightly described, the words spoken carefully reported. In that case we may take πάντες following somewhat strictly, and not as a mere exaggeration of the evangelist’s. There were many at the feast. The aim was to have all the out- casts of the town present (vide on Mt. ix. 9-13). True, they came to feast according to the other report, whereas here stress is laid on the hearing (ἀκούειν). The festive feature is referred to in the complaint of the Pharisees (συνεσθίει, νετ. 2). Of course there would be hearing as well as eating, and probably what the guests heard was just these same parables in slightly different form. In that case they served first asa ΄ gospel and then as an apologia.—Ver. 2. διεγόγγυζον : the διὰ conveys the idea of a general pervasive murmuring. This is probably not an instance illustrating Hermann’s remark (ad Viger., p. 856) that this preposition in compound verbs often adds the notion of striving (διαπίνειν, certare bibendo).—ot τε Φ.: the τε (NQBL) binds Pharisees and scribee together as one: as close a corporation as ‘“‘publicans and sinners” (equivalent to ‘sinners’? in their conception, ἁμαρτωλοὺς, ver. 2). Note the order,
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