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44 aTruly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has.  
45 aBut if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,  
46 the master of that servant will come on a aday when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.  
47 And athat servant who bknew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.  
48 aBut he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.  

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49 a“I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!  
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Luke 12:46

Shall cut him asunder (dixotomhsei). An old and somewhat rare word from dixotomov and that from dixa and temnw, to cut, to cut in two. Used literally here. In the N.T. only here and Matthew 24:51.

With the unfaithful (meta twn apistwn). Not here "the unbelieving" though that is a common meaning of apistov (a privative and pistov, from peiqw), but the unreliable, the untrustworthy. Here Matthew 24:51 has "with the hypocrites," the same point. The parallel with Matthew 24:43-51 ends here. Matthew 24:51 adds the saying about the wailing and the gnashing of teeth. Clearly there Luke places the parable of the wise steward in this context while Matthew has it in the great eschatological discourse. Once again we must either think that Jesus repeated the parable or that one of the writers has misplaced it. Luke alone preserves what he gives in verses Luke 12:47-48.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 12:46:

Luke 12:39
Luke 12:41
Luke 12:42
Acts 26:8
1 Corinthians 7:12

 

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