Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?
All these sayings of Christ we had before in Matthew; some of them in ch. 7, others in other places. They were sayings that Christ often used; they needed only to be mentioned, it was easy to apply them. Grotius thinks that we need not be critical here in seeking for the coherence: they are golden sentences, like Solomon's proverbs or parables. Let us observe here, I.
Commenting on Luke 6:37-49
Whosoever cometh to me,.... To be a disciple and follower: and heareth my sayings, and doth them; See Gill on Mat 7:24. I will show you to whom he is like; or "to what thing he is like"; so the Syriac and Arabic versions; though what follows seems better to agree with person than thing.
Verse 46. ; ; ; ; ; ; . (c) "call ye me good"