Luke 12:59

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

I tell you, you shall not depart there, till you have paid the very last mite.

American King James Version (AKJV)

I tell you, you shall not depart there, till you have paid the very last mite.

American Standard Version (ASV)

I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the very last mite.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

I say to you, You will not come out of it till you have made payment to the very last farthing.

Webster's Revision

I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.

World English Bible

I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny."

English Revised Version (ERV)

I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the very last mite.

Definitions for Luke 12:59

Mite - A Jewish coin.
Tell - To number; count.
Thence - There; that place.

Clarke's Luke 12:59 Bible Commentary

Till thou hast paid the very last mite - And when can this be, if we understand the text spiritually? Can weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, pay to Divine justice the debt a sinner has contracted? This is impossible: let him who readeth understand.

The subject of the 47th and 48th verses has been greatly misunderstood, and has been used in a very dangerous manner. Many have thought that their ignorance of Divine things would be a sufficient excuse for their crimes; and, that they might have but few stripes, they voluntarily continued in ignorance. But such persons should know that God will judge them for the knowledge they might have received, but refused to acquire. No criminal is excused because he has been ignorant of the laws of his country, and so transgressed them, when it can be proved that those very laws have been published throughout the land. Much knowledge is a dangerous thing if it be not improved; as this will greatly aggravate the condemnation of its possessor. Nor will it avail a person, in the land of light and information, to be ignorant, as he shall be judged for what he might have known; and, perhaps, in this case, the punishment of this voluntarily ignorant man will be even greater than that of the more enlightened; because his crimes are aggravated by this consideration, that he refused to have the light, that he might neither be obliged to walk in the light, nor account for the possession of it. So we find that the plea of ignorance is a mere refuge of lies, and none can plead it who has the book of God within his reach, and lives in a country blessed with the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Wesley's Luke 12:59 Bible Commentary

12:59 A mite - was about the third part of a farthing sterling.

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