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A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/alford/luke/7.htm" title="Henry Alford - Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary">Alford</a> • <a href="/commentaries/barnes/luke/7.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/bengel/luke/7.htm" title="Bengel's Gnomen">Bengel</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/luke/7.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/luke/7.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/luke/7.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/luke/7.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/luke/7.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/luke/7.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/luke/7.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/luke/7.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/luke/7.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/egt/luke/7.htm" title="Expositor's Greek">Exp Grk</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/luke/7.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/luke/7.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/luke/7.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/luke/7.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/luke/7.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/luke/7.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/luke/6-12.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/luke/7.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/icc/luke/7.htm" title="ICC NT Commentary">ICC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/luke/7.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kelly/luke/7.htm" title="Kelly Commentary">Kelly</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/luke/7.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/luke/7.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/luke/7.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/luke/7.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/luke/7.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/meyer/luke/7.htm" title="Meyer Commentary">Meyer</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/luke/7.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pnt/luke/7.htm" title="People's New Testament">PNT</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/luke/7.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/luke/7.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/luke/7.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/luke/7.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/luke/7.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/vws/luke/7.htm" title="Vincent's Word Studies">VWS</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/luke/7.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/luke/7.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(25) <span class= "bld">They which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately.</span>—The words are more vivid than those in St. Matthew (“they that wear soft clothing”), and bring out the idea of ostentatious display and extravagant excess of luxury, as well as effeminate self-indulgence. Such forms of selfishness were common among the house of Herod and their followers. So Josephus describes the “royal apparel” of Agrippa (<a href="/acts/12-21.htm" title="And on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne, and made an oration to them.">Acts 12:21</a>) as glittering with gold and silver tissues. The words must have gone home to some of the Herodians, and we may trace a touch of brutal vindictiveness in the “gorgeous” or “<span class= "ital">bright</span> robe,” in which they arrayed the Prophet of Nazareth when they had Him in their power. (See Notes on <a href="/luke/23-11.htm" title="And Herod with his men of war set him at nothing, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.">Luke 23:11</a>; <a href="/matthew/11-8.htm" title="But what went you out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.">Matthew 11:8</a>.)<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/luke/7.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>7:19-35 To his miracles in the kingdom of nature, Christ adds this in the kingdom of grace, To the poor the gospel is preached. It clearly pointed out the spiritual nature of Christ's kingdom, that the messenger he sent before him to prepare his way, did it by preaching repentance and reformation of heart and life. We have here the just blame of those who were not wrought upon by the ministry of John Baptist or of Jesus Christ himself. They made a jest of the methods God took to do them good. This is the ruin of multitudes; they are not serious in the concerns of their souls. Let us study to prove ourselves children of Wisdom, by attending the instructions of God's word, and adoring those mysteries and glad tidings which infidels and Pharisees deride and blaspheme.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/luke/7.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>See this passage explained in <a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/11-2.htm">Matthew 11:2-19</a>.<a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/luke/7.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>Lu 7:18-35. The Baptist's Message the Reply, and Consequent Discourse.<p>(See on [1592]Mt 11:2-14.)<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/luke/7.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/luke/7-24.htm" title="And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak to the people concerning John, What went you out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?">Luke 7:24</a>"</span> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/luke/7.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>But what went you out for to see?.... If not his air and action, what was it? was it his apparel and dress? was it to see <p>a man clothed in soft raiment? If this was the case, their labour was in vain, and they had their walk for nothing; for John was clothed with camels' hair, rough and undressed, and was girt with a leathern girdle; there was nothing in his person, mien, and garb, that was attractive: <p>they which are gorgeously, apparelled; or richly clothed, as John was not: <p>and live delicately; in the most elegant manner, and on the richest dainties, as John did not, his food being locusts and wild honey: <p>are in kings' courts; and not in a wilderness, where John; came preaching. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/luke/7.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/egt/luke/7.htm">Expositor's Greek Testament</a></div><a href="/luke/7-25.htm" title="But what went you out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.">Luke 7:25</a>. <span class="greekheb">ἰδοὺ οἱ</span>: Lk. changes the expression here, substituting for <span class="greekheb">οἱ τὰ μαλακὰ φοροῦντες</span> (Mt.), <span class="greekheb">οἱ ἐν ἱματισμῷ ἐνδόξῳ καὶ τρυφῇ ὑπάρχοντες</span> = those living in (clothed with) splendid apparel and luxury.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/luke/7.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">25</span>. <span class="ital">A man clothed in soft raiment?</span>] A contrast to the camel’s hair mantle and leathern girdle of the Baptist; <a href="/matthew/3-4.htm" title="And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.">Matthew 3:4</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">they which are gorgeously apparelled and live delicately</span>] Rather, <span class="bld">they who are in glorious apparel and luxury. </span>The Herods were specially given both to ostentation in dress (<a href="/acts/13-21.htm" title="And afterward they desired a king: and God gave to them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.">Acts 13:21</a>) and to luxury, <a href="/mark/6-21.htm" title="And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;">Mark 6:21</a>; Jos. <span class="ital">B. J.</span> 1. 20, § 2; <span class="ital">Antt.</span> xix. 8, § 2; 18, § 7.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">in kings courts</span>] Rather, in palaces. Such as the palaces of the Herods which they had seen at Tiberias, Caesarea Philippi, and Jerusalem. We might almost fancy an allusion to Manaen the Essene, who is said in the Talmud to have openly adopted gorgeous robes to shew his allegiance to Herod. To the Herodians generally, and to all whose Judaism was a mere matter of gain and court favour, might have been applied the sneering nickname of the Talmud ‘Proselytes of the royal table’ (<span class="ital">Gere Shulchan Melachim. Kiddushin</span>, f. 65. 2; Gratz, in. 308). John had been in palaces, but only to counsel and reprove. Our Lord on the only two occasions on which He entered palaces—on the last day of His life—was mocked by “<span class="ital">bright apparel</span>” (<a href="/luke/23-11.htm" title="And Herod with his men of war set him at nothing, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.">Luke 23:11</a>), and a purple or scarlet robe (<a href="/matthew/27-28.htm" title="And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.">Matthew 27:28</a>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/luke/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 25.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings'</span> <span class="cmt_word">courts.</span> Was it, again, to see one of earth's so-called great ones - a favourite of the reigning monarch, a courtier of the magnificent Herod? John was no court favourite, no powerful or princely noble. Dean Plumptre thinks that here a reference is made to the fact that, in the early days of Herod the Great, a section of the scribes had attached themselves to his policy and party, and in doing so had laid aside the sombre raiment of their order, and had appeared in the gorgeous raiment worn by Herod's other courtiers. "We may trace," adds the dean, "with very little hesitation, a vindictive retaliation for these very words in the 'gorgeous robe' with which Herod arrayed him in mockery, when the tetrarch and Christ stood for one brief hour face to face with each other" (<a href="/luke/23-4.htm">Luke 23:4</a>). Luke 7:25<a name="vws" id="vws"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/vws/luke/7.htm">Vincent's Word Studies</a></div>Gorgeously apparelled (ἐν ἱματισμῷ ἐνδόξῳ)<p>Lit., in splendid clothing.<p>Live delicately (τρυφῇ ὑπάρχοντες)<p>Lit., are in luxury. On ὑπάρχοντες, are, see on <a href="/james/2-15.htm">James 2:15</a>. On τρυφῇ, luxury, see on <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-13.htm">2 Peter 2:13</a>, the only other place where it occurs. Compare the kindred verb τρυφάω, to live in luxury, <a href="/james/5-5.htm">James 5:5</a>.<p>Kings' courts (βασιλείοις)<p>Only here in New Testament. Often rendered palaces. 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