For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’
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For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’
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For Iohn baptist cam nether eatynge breed ner drinkynge wyne and ye saye: he hath the devyll.
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For Iohn Baptist came, neither eating bread, nor drinking wine: and ye say, He hath the deuil.
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Passages linked to Luke 7:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Luke 1:15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
- Mark 1:6 John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
- Jeremiah 16:8-10 “You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.” For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’
- Matthew 3:4 Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
- John 8:48 Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
- John 8:52 Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’
- John 10:20 Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”
- Acts 2:13 Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”
- Matthew 10:25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 32 They are like unto children sitting in the…
32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
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Ver. 33. Neither eating bread] But locusts and wild honey.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And behold, a woman in the city,.... Not Mary…
And behold, a woman in the city,.... Not Mary Magdalene, spoken of in Luk 8:2 under another character; and is a different person, who had not been taken notice of by the evangelist before; nor Mary the sister of Lazarus, who is said to anoint the feet of Christ, and wipe them with her hair, Joh 12:3. The character given of this woman, does not seem so well to agree with her; at least, the fact here recorded, cannot be the same with that; for this was in Galilee, and that in Bethany; this in the house of Simon the Pharisee, that in the house of Lazarus; this was some time before Christ's death, and after this he went a circuit through every city and village, that was but six days before his death, and after which he never went from those parts; nor is this account the same with the history, recorded in Mat 26:6 for that fact was done in Bethany also, this in Galilee; that in the house of Simon: the leper, this in the house of Simon the Pharisee; that was but two days before the death of Christ, this a considerable time before; the ointment that woman poured, was poured upon his head, this upon his feet: who this woman was, is not certain, nor in what city she dwelt; it seems to be the same in which the Pharisee's house was; and was no doubt one of the cities of Galilee, as Naim, Capernaum, or some other at no great distance from these:
which was a sinner; a notorious sinner, one that was known by all to have been a person of a wicked, life and conversation; a lewd woman, a vile prostitute, an harlot, commonly reputed so: the Arabic word here used, signifies both a sinner and a whore (k); and so the word, sinners, seems to be used elsewhere by Luke; see Luk 15:1 compared with Mat 21:31. Some think she was a Gentile, Gentiles being reckoned by the Jews sinners, and the worst of sinners; but this does not appear:
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when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house; having observed it herself, that he was invited by him, and went with him, or being informed of it by others,
brought an alabaster box of ointment: ointment was used to be put in vessels made of "alabaster", which kept it pure and incorrupt; and this stone was found about Damascus, (l) so that there might be plenty of it in Judea; at least it might be easily had, and such boxes might be common; and as this woman appears to have been a lewd person, she might have this box of ointment by her to anoint herself with, that she might recommend herself to her gallants. The historian (m) reports, that
"Venus gave to Phaon an alabaster box with ointment, with which Phaon, being anointed, became the most beautiful of men, and the women of Mitylene were taken with the love of him.''
If this box had been provided with such a view; it was now used to another and different purpose.
(k) Vid. Castell. Lex. Heptaglott. col. 1195. (l) Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 36. c. 8. (m) Aelian. var. Hist. l. 12. c. 8.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 33. neither eating bread nor drinking wine] “His meat…
33. neither eating bread nor drinking wine] “His meat was locusts and wild honey,” Mat_3:4. Being a Nazarite he drank no wine, Luk_1:15; see 2Es_9:24.
He hath a devil] They sneered at him for a moody or melancholy temperament which they attributed to an evil spirit. This in fact was their coarse way of describing any peculiarity or exaltation which struck them as strange. At a later period they said the same of Christ, Joh_7:20; Joh_10:20.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (33) For John the Baptist came . . .—The…
(33) For John the Baptist came . . .—The substantives “bread” and “wine” are not found in St. Matthew’s report.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor…
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine. Referring to his austere life spent in the desert, apart from the ordinary joys and pleasures of men, not even sharing in what are usually termed the necessities of life. He was, in addition, a perpetual Nazarite, and as such no wine or fermented drink ever passed his lips. And ye say, He hath a devil. Another way for expressing their conviction that the great desert-preacher was insane, and assigning a demoniacal possession as the cause of madness. Not very long after this incident the curtain of death fell on the earthly scene of John"s life. "We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour: how is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!". (RAPC Wis 5:4, 5) We. may be quite sure that "in the fiery furnace God walked with his servant, so that his spirit was not harmed, and having thus annealed his nature to the utmost that this earth can do, he took him hastily away and placed him among the glorified in heaven" (Irving, quoted by Farrar).
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 eating no bread
eating no bread
Possible meanings are 1) "frequently fasting" or 2) "not eating normal food."
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you say, 'He has a demon.'
Jesus was quoting what people were saying about John. This can be stated without the direct quote. AT: "you say that he has a demon." or "you accuse him of having a demon." (See: Direct and Indirect Quotations)
The Son of Man
Jesus expected the people to understand that he was referring to himself. AT: "I, the Son of Man" (See: First, Second, or Third Person)
you say, 'Look, he is a gluttonous man and a drunkard ... sinners!'
This can be translated as an indirect quote. AT: "you say that he is a gluttonous man and a drunkard ... sinners." or "you accuse him of eating and drinking too much and of being ... sinners." (See: Direct and Indirect Quotations)
you say, 'Look, he is a gluttonous man and a drunkard ... sinners!'
If you translated "The Son of Man" as "I, the Son of man," you can state this as an indirect statement and use the first person. AT: "you say that I am a gluttonous man and a drunkard ... sinners." (See: Direct and Indirect Quotations and First, Second, or Third Person)
he is a gluttonous man
"he is a greedy eater" or "he continually eats too much food"
a drunkard
"a drunk" or "he continually drinks too much alcohol"
wisdom is justified by all her children
This appears to be a proverb that Jesus applied to this situation, probably to teach that wise people would understand that the people should not have rejected Jesus and John.
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John (the Baptist)
bread
wine
demon
Son of Man
drunk
tax
sin
wise
just
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 7:33 John the Baptist didn’t spend his time eating…
7:33 John the Baptist didn’t spend his time eating bread or drinking wine: John lived an ascetic’s life of self-denial, appropriate to his prophetic role of announcing God’s Kingdom, the coming judgment, and the need for repentance and cleansing.
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