Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Luke 11:51

blood of Zacharias—Probably the allusion is not to any recent murder, but to II Chronicles 24:20-22, as the last recorded and most suitable case for illustration. And as Zacharias' last words were, "The Lord require it," so they are warned that "of that generation it should be required."

Luke 11:49-51

said the wisdom, etc.—a remarkable variation of the words in Matthew 23:34, "Behold I SEND." As there seems plainly an allusion to ancient warnings of what God would do with so incorrigible a people, so here Christ, stepping majestically into the place of God, so to speak, says, "Now I am going to carry all that out." Could this be other than the Lord of Israel in the flesh?

 

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