Luke 23:5 Meaning and Explanation
“And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.”
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Read Full Chapter →The accusers press harder, insisting that Jesus stirs up the people with his teaching from Galilee all the way to Jerusalem.
What Does Luke 23:5 Mean?
Refused once, the accusers grow fiercer, recasting three years of public teaching as agitation. Their words sketch the true shape of his ministry — beginning in Galilee, moving through all the land, ending in Jerusalem — exactly as Luke has told it.
He did stir the people: tax collectors to repentance, fishermen to apostleship, the brokenhearted to hope. The charge is true in a way the accusers never intended. Wherever Jesus is truly taught, hearts are unsettled before they are healed; his word never leaves a town as it found it. The question for every hearer is whether to call that disturbance a danger or a deliverance.
Luke 23:5 in the Original Language
anaseio (ἀνασείω), 'stirreth up' -- to shake up or incite; the verb pictures a crowd rocked into motion.
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What does Luke 23:5 mean?
The accusers press harder, insisting that Jesus stirs up the people with his teaching from Galilee all the way to Jerusalem.