Skip to Content
Commentary Library

Commentaries on Luke 16:31

Read verse in KJV Bible Reader

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And he said unto him..... That is, Abraham said unto him, as the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions express it: if they hear not Moses and the prophets; as they did not, nor regarded what they said of Christ, but disbelieved both him and them: neither will they be persuaded: or brought to repent and believe; though one rose from the dead; as Christ did; whose resurrection, the truth of it they...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

The scope of Christ's discourse in this chapter is to awaken and quicken us all so to use this world as not to abuse it, so to manage all our possessions and enjoyments here as that they may make for us, and may not make against us in the other world; for they will do either the one or the other, according as we use them now. I. If we do good with them, and lay out what we have in works of piety...