Luke 10:22
All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him."
All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father
This phrase underscores the divine authority and sovereignty of Jesus Christ. The Greek word for "entrusted" is "παραδίδωμι" (paradidōmi), which implies a deliberate and authoritative handing over of power and responsibility. In the historical context of the New Testament, this reflects the Jewish understanding of a father-son relationship, where the father would pass on authority and inheritance to the son. This statement affirms the unique relationship between Jesus and God the Father, emphasizing that Jesus is the appointed mediator of God's will and the executor of His divine plan.

No one knows who the Son is except the Father
The Greek word for "knows" is "γινώσκω" (ginōskō), which means to know intimately or experientially. This phrase highlights the exclusive and profound relationship between the Father and the Son. In the scriptural context, it suggests that the true identity and nature of Jesus as the Son of God can only be fully comprehended by God the Father. This exclusivity points to the mystery of the Trinity, where the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct yet one in essence. Historically, this would have been a radical assertion, challenging the prevailing Jewish understanding of God and emphasizing the divine mystery of Christ's identity.

and no one knows who the Father is except the Son
Here, the same Greek word "γινώσκω" (ginōskō) is used, reinforcing the intimate knowledge and relationship between the Son and the Father. This phrase indicates that Jesus possesses a unique and complete understanding of God the Father, which is not accessible to humanity apart from divine revelation. In the historical and theological context, this asserts Jesus' role as the revealer of God, the one who makes the Father known to the world. It underscores the Christian belief that through Jesus, believers can come to know God personally and intimately.

and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him
The Greek word for "chooses" is "βουλομαι" (boulomai), which implies a deliberate and intentional decision. This phrase emphasizes the sovereignty of Jesus in the process of revelation. It is through Jesus' will and choice that individuals come to know the Father. This highlights the grace and initiative of God in the salvation process, where revelation is not based on human merit but on divine choice. In the scriptural context, it underscores the role of Jesus as the mediator between God and humanity, the one through whom the knowledge of God is imparted to those who are called. This reflects the Christian doctrine of election and the belief in Jesus as the sole path to knowing God.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Jesus Christ
The central figure in this verse, who speaks of His unique relationship with the Father and His authority to reveal the Father to others.

2. God the Father
The one who has entrusted all things to Jesus, highlighting the divine relationship and authority within the Trinity.

3. The Disciples
Although not directly mentioned in this verse, they are the immediate audience of Jesus' teaching and the ones to whom He reveals the Father.

4. The Trinity
Implicit in the relationship between the Father and the Son, emphasizing the unity and distinct roles within the Godhead.

5. Revelation
The event or process by which Jesus chooses to reveal the Father to others, indicating divine initiative and grace.
Teaching Points
Divine Authority and Trust
Jesus has been entrusted with all things by the Father, indicating His supreme authority and trustworthiness.

Exclusive Knowledge
The unique relationship between the Father and the Son is foundational to understanding the nature of God.

Revelation as Grace
The ability to know the Father is a gift of grace, dependent on the Son's choice to reveal Him.

The Role of the Trinity
Understanding the distinct roles within the Trinity helps us appreciate the unity and diversity of God's work in the world.

Pursuing Revelation
As believers, we should seek to know God more deeply through Jesus, who reveals the Father to us.
Bible Study Questions
1. How does understanding Jesus' authority, as described in Luke 10:22, impact your view of His teachings and commands?

2. In what ways can you seek a deeper revelation of the Father through your relationship with Jesus?

3. How does the concept of the Trinity, as seen in this verse, influence your understanding of God's nature and work in your life?

4. Reflect on a time when you felt God revealed something significant to you. How did that experience shape your faith journey?

5. How can you apply the truth of Jesus' exclusive knowledge of the Father in your interactions with others who are seeking to know God?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Matthew 11:27
This verse parallels Luke 10:22, emphasizing the exclusive knowledge and revelation between the Father and the Son.

John 14:6-7
Jesus speaks of being the way to the Father, reinforcing the idea that knowing the Father comes through the Son.

1 Corinthians 2:10-11
Discusses the Spirit's role in revealing the deep things of God, complementing the Son's role in revelation.

John 17:25-26
Jesus prays for His disciples to know the Father, highlighting His desire for them to experience this revelation.

Hebrews 1:1-3
Describes Jesus as the exact representation of God's being, underscoring His authority to reveal the Father.
The Mission of the SeventyR.M. Edgar Luke 10:1-24
Christ Glorifies His Father and Magnifies HimselfW. Burkitt.Luke 10:21-22
Christ the Revealer of GodW. Dorling.Luke 10:21-22
Christ's JoyVan Oosterzee.Luke 10:21-22
Deity RevealedJ. Irons.Luke 10:21-22
Divine Truths Hidden and RevealedB. Wilkinson, F. G. S.Luke 10:21-22
God Revealed unto BabesDr. Martineau.Luke 10:21-22
Humility of PascalLife of Pascal.Luke 10:21-22
It is the Great Marvel of the Christian CharacterDr. Martineau.Luke 10:21-22
Learning the Alphabet of ReligionHandbook to Scripture Doctrines.Luke 10:21-22
LessonsJames Foote, M. A.Luke 10:21-22
Revelation to the LowlyW. F. Adeney, M. A.Luke 10:21-22
The Babe-SpiritJ. Parker, D. D.Luke 10:21-22
The Child-HeartBishop Boyd CarpenterLuke 10:21-22
The Joy of JesusC. H. Spurgeon.Luke 10:21-22
The Kingdom of GodVan Oosterzee.Luke 10:21-22
The Power Bestowed on Christ by the FatherVan Oosterzee.Luke 10:21-22
The Receptive SpiritLuke 10:21-22
The Relation Between Father and SonVan Oosterzee.Luke 10:21-22
The Saviour's JoyVan Oosterzee.Luke 10:21-22
The Simplicity of MysteryJ. Parker, D. D.Luke 10:21-22
The Unique Relation Between the Son and the FatherVan Oosterzee.Luke 10:21-22
To Commune with GodDr. Martineau.Luke 10:21-22
Two Types of Human Greatness AreDr. Martineau.Luke 10:21-22
Why God Reveals to BabesJ. Leckie, D. D.Luke 10:21-22
People
Jesus, Martha, Mary
Places
Bethsaida, Capernaum, Chorazin, Jericho, Jerusalem, Road to Jerusalem, Sidon, Sodom, Tyre
Topics
Anyone, Choose, Chooses, Clear, Delivered, Desires, Disciples, Except, Handed, Knoweth, Pleased, Reveal, Save, Turning, Whomever, Whomsoever, Willeth, Wills, Wish
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Luke 10:22

     2012   Christ, authority
     2045   Christ, knowledge of
     2069   Christ, pre-eminence
     2218   Christ, Son of God
     2423   gospel, essence

Luke 10:21-22

     1403   God, revelation
     2078   Christ, sonship of
     8135   knowing God, nature of

Library
Definiteness of Purpose in Christian Work
TEXT: "Salute no man by the way."--Luke 10:4. Luke is the only one of the Evangelists giving us the account of the sending out of the seventy. The others tell us that Christ called certain men unto him and commissioned them to tell his story; but in this instance after Jesus had said, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head," he calls the seventy and sends them forth prepared to endure any sacrifice or suffer any affliction if only
J. Wilbur Chapman—And Judas Iscariot

October 28 Evening
The Enemy.--LUKE 10:19. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.--Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

June 14 Evening
Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things.--LUKE 10:41. Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap. Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not. Seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. Your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. Having food and raiment let us be therewith content . . . They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

January 9 Evening
One thing is needful.--LUKE 10:42. There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God.--O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land,
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

March 8. "Pray Ye Therefore" (Luke x. 2).
"Pray Ye therefore" (Luke x. 2). Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work. "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that He will send forth laborers into His harvest." We are asking God to touch the hearts of men every day by the Holy Ghost, so that they shall be compelled to go abroad and preach the Gospel. We are asking Him to wake them up at night with the solemn conviction that the heathen are perishing, and that their blood will be upon their souls, and God is answering
Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth

The Good Samaritan
LUKE x. 33, 34. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. No words, perhaps, ever spoken on earth, have had more effect than those of this parable. They are words of power and of spirit; living words, which have gone forth into the hearts and lives of men, and borne fruit in them of a hundred
Charles Kingsley—Discipline and Other Sermons

The Tables Turned: the Questioners Questioned
'But when the Pharisees had heard that He had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. 35. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked Him a question, tempting Him, and saying, 36. Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38. This is the first and great commandment. 39. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40.
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

Christ's Messengers: their Equipment and Work
'After these things, the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before His face into every city and place whither He Himself would come. 2. Therefore said He unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He would send forth labourers into His harvest. 3. Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. 4. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes; and salute no man by the way. 5. And into whatsoever
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

Neighbours Far Off
'And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted Him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 26. He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? 27. And he, answering, said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. 28. And He said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. 29. But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus,
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

Sanctification
SANCTIFICATION [1] St Luke x. 42.--"One thing is needful." I have read many writings both of heathen philosophers and inspired prophets, ancient and modern, and have sought earnestly to discover what is the best and highest quality whereby man may approach most nearly to union with God, and whereby he may most resemble the ideal of himself which existed in God, before God created men. And after having thoroughly searched these writings as far as my reason may penetrate, I find no higher quality than
Johannes Eckhart—Meister Eckhart's Sermons

On the Words of the Gospel, Luke x. 16, "He that Rejecteth You Rejecteth Me. "
1. What our Lord Jesus Crist at that time spake to His disciples was put in writing, and prepared for us to hear. And so we have heard His words. For what profit would it be to us if He were seen, and were not heard? And now it is no hurt, that He is not seen, and yet is heard. He saith then, "He that despiseth you, despiseth Me." [3300] If to the Apostles only He said, "He that despiseth you, despiseth Me;" do ye despise us. But if His word reach to us, and He hath called us, and set us in their
Saint Augustine—sermons on selected lessons of the new testament

On the Words of the Gospel, Luke x. 2, "The Harvest Truly is Plenteous," Etc.
1. By the lesson of the Gospel which has just been read, we are reminded to search what that harvest is of which the Lord says, "The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that He would send forth labourers into His harvest." [3262] Then to His twelve disciples, whom He also named Apostles, He added other seventy-two, and sent them all, as appears from His words, to the harvest then ready. What then was that harvest? For that harvest was not among these
Saint Augustine—sermons on selected lessons of the new testament

On the Words of the Gospel, Luke x. 38, "And a Certain Woman Named Martha Received Him into Her House," Etc.
1. The words of our Lord Jesus Christ which have just been read out of the Gospel, give us to understand, that there is some one thing for which we must be making, when we toil amid the manifold engagements of this life. Now we make for this as being yet in pilgrimage, and not in our abiding place; as yet in the way, not yet in our country; as yet in longing, not yet in enjoyment. Yet let us make for it, and that without sloth and without intermission, that we may some time be able to reach it. 2.
Saint Augustine—sermons on selected lessons of the new testament

Again, on the Words of the Gospel, Luke x. 38, Etc. , About Martha and Mary.
1. When the holy Gospel was being read, we heard that the Lord was received by a religious woman into her house, and her name was Martha. And while she was occupied in the care of serving, her sister Mary was sitting at the Lord's Feet, and hearing His Word. The one was busy, the other was still; one was giving out, the other was being filled. Yet Martha, all busy as she was in that occupation and toil of serving, appealed to the Lord, and complained of her sister, that she did not help her in her
Saint Augustine—sermons on selected lessons of the new testament

On Dissipation
"This I speak -- that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction." 1 Cor. 7:35. 1. Almost in every part of our nation, more especially in the large and populous towns, we hear a general complaint among sensible persons, of the still increasing dissipation. It is observed to diffuse itself more and more, in the court, the city, and the country. From the continual mention which is made of this, and the continual declamations against it, one would naturally imagine that a word so commonly used
John Wesley—Sermons on Several Occasions

The one Thing Needful
The mere posture of sitting down and listening to the Saviour's word was nothing in itself: it was that which it indicated. It indicated, in Mary's case, a readiness to believe what the Saviour taught, to accept and to obey--nay to delight in, the precepts which fell from his lips. And this is the one thing needful--absolutely needful; for no rebel can enter the kingdom of heaven with the weapons of rebellion in his hands. We cannot know Christ while we resist Christ: we must be reconciled to his
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871

The Good Samaritan
(Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity.) S. LUKE x. 30. "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves." The scene of the parable is a wild, lonely road between Jerusalem and Jericho. It is a road with an evil name for murder and robbery, and is called the red, or bloody way. The mishap of the traveller was common enough in our Lord's day, and is common enough now. But I would take the scene of this parable in a wider sense; I would ask you to look at it as the wayside of
H. J. Wilmot-Buxton—The Life of Duty, a Year's Plain Sermons, v. 2

Zeal.
13th Sunday after Trinity. S. Luke x., 23. "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" INTRODUCTION.--The Kingdom of Heaven, said our Lord, is like unto a treasure hid in a field. One day a man is turning over the stones which lie in a heap in a corner of the field, and he finds under them an iron chest, and this chest he believes to be full of gold. Then he carefully covers it up again with stones and earth, and goes off in the greatest excitement to the owner of the field, and offers him a price,
S. Baring-Gould—The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent

Lorimer -- the Fall of Satan
George C. Lorimer was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1838. He was brought up by his stepfather who was associated with the theater, and in this relation he received a dramatic education and had some experience on the stage. In 1855 he came to the United States, where he joined the Baptist Church and abandoned the theatrical profession. Later he studied for the Baptist ministry, being ordained in 1859. He died in 1904. His direct and dramatic, pulpit style brought him into great popularity in Boston,
Grenville Kleiser—The world's great sermons, Volume 8

Question on the Religious State
Are Contemplative Orders superior to Active Orders? Are Contemplative Orders superior to Active Orders? The Lord declared that Mary's was the best part, and she is the type of the contemplative life.[491] Religious Orders differ from one another primarily according to the ends they have in view, but secondarily according to the works they practise. And since one thing cannot be said to be superior to another save by reason of the differences between them, it will follow that the superiority of
St. Thomas Aquinas—On Prayer and The Contemplative Life

Christian Perfection
Definition of perfection: Unblemished, blameless, pure. We are commanded to be perfect. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."--Matt. 5:48. "For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you."--2 Cor. 13:9, 11. "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ,
J. W. Byers—Sanctification

The Christian's Fellow Man
Scripture references: Luke 10:29-37; Matthew 7:12; 5:16; Luke 12:13-15; 1 Corinthians 13; Matthew 7:3-5; 5:42-49; John 21:21, 22. MAN AND OTHER MEN The Question of Relationship.--One of the most important questions is that of the relation which a man shall hold to other men. 1. It is fundamental in every system of philosophy and religion. The answers, which are given, show their widespread practical bearing in the social, industrial and political spheres, as well as in the religious. 2. It is imperative
Henry T. Sell—Studies in the Life of the Christian

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