Luke 10:16 Meaning and Explanation
“He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.”
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Read Full Chapter →Jesus binds himself to his messengers: to hear them is to hear him, to reject them is to reject him, and to reject him is to reject the Father who sent him.
What Does Luke 10:16 Mean?
The commission closes with a chain of representation. The seventy go in the name of Jesus as Jesus came in the name of the Father; each link carries the full weight of the sender. A village that shuts its door on two dusty travellers is answering God himself.
This dignifies every faithful messenger and sobers every hearer. The treatment of the servant is received by the Master as treatment of himself — comfort for the rejected witness, warning for the casual audience. And the chain runs upward: behind the human voice stands the Son, and behind the Son the Father, so that no response to the gospel is ever merely a response to people.
Luke 10:16 in the Original Language
atheteo (ἀθετέω), 'despiseth' -- to set aside, to reject as nothing.
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What does Luke 10:16 mean?
Jesus binds himself to his messengers: to hear them is to hear him, to reject them is to reject him, and to reject him is to reject the Father who sent him.