Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
13. Bid my brother divide Our Lord, when requested to undertake the office of dividing an inheritance, refuses to do so. Now as this tended to promote brotherly harmony, and as Christ’s office was, not only to reconcile men to God, but to bring them into a state of agreement with one another, what hindered him from settling the dispute between the two brothers?
We have in these verses, I. The application that was made to Christ, very unseasonably, by one of his hearers, desiring him to interpose between him and his brother in a matter that concerned the estate of the family (Luk 12:13): "Master, speak to my brother; speak as a prophet, speak as a king, speak with authority; he is one that will have regard to...
Commenting on Luke 12:13-21
And one of the company said unto him,.... Not one of the disciples of Christ, but one of the multitude, or crowd, about him, Luk 12:1 Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me: the firstborn, according to the law, in Deu 21:17 had a double portion: but the eider brother here, it seems, was for keeping all, and would not...