Luke 21:14

Luke 21:14 Meaning and Explanation

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:

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Jesus commands his followers to settle it in their hearts beforehand not to rehearse their defense.

What Does Luke 21:14 Mean?

Jesus now tells his disciples how to face the trials he has foretold. They are to settle the matter in advance: no anxious rehearsing of speeches, no lying awake composing a defense. The instruction is striking because preparing a case is precisely what any accused person would do.

This is not a counsel of laziness but of trust, and the next verse gives its ground: the Lord himself will supply the words. What Jesus forbids is the fretful self-reliance that assumes everything hangs on our eloquence. The heart settled beforehand is free in the moment of testing, because it has already decided the only question that matters: whom it will trust when the door opens.

Luke 21:14 in the Original Language

promeletao (προμελετάω), 'meditate before' -- to rehearse a speech in advance.

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What does Luke 21:14 mean?

Jesus commands his followers to settle it in their hearts beforehand not to rehearse their defense.

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