It is enough to meet a difficulty which many feel by the simple plea that the reason assigned is in my judgment a valid explanation, and in itself a sufficient solution of the apparent discrepancy. As a last resort my colleague decided to send her to the medical officer of the district in which she worked in order to get his permission to send her into a mountain sanatorium. Matthew 9:12 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. Jesus compelled these men to face him alone. And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus said unto them, Do you believe that I am able to do this? We have the natural tie here brought into prominence; and this was a claim that Christ slighted not. They mock the calm utterance of Him who chooses things that are not; and the Lord turns out the unbelievers, and demonstrates the glorious truth that the maid was not dead, but living. Would he say that to you if he knew your thoughts? When by the conversion of Matthew the fraternity was broken, presently his house was filled with publicans, and surely some of them will follow him, as he followed Christ. About the Author . What He was introducing could not mix with Judaism. Epictetus said grimly: "When you are kissing your child, say to yourself: 'One day you must die.'" There is room also for the most thorough self-abnegation. He now takes His place of rejection; for Him it is manifest even now by their inmost thoughts of Him when revealed. At its close we see the leper approaching the Lord, after He had been preaching throughout Galilee and casting out devils. The second is, "So the last shall be first, and the first last; for many are called, but few are chosen." The priest would have said that religion consists of sacrifice; the Scribe would have said that religion consists of Law; but Jesus Christ said that religion consists of love. Jesus did not mean that the tax collectors and sinners needed Him but the Pharisees did not. The second were classed as the people of the land; and it was forbidden to the orthodox to go on a journey with them, to do any business with them, to give anything to them or to receive anything from them, to entertain them as guests or to be guests in their houses. People did not really know how much they ought to pay in the days before newspapers and radio and television, nor had they any right of appeal against the tax-collector. Salt and Light - Matthew 5:13-16. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why is your Master eating with publicans and sinners? Though Christ begins with reproof, yet if we desire to make progress in his doctrine, what he has put in the second place must receive our first consideration. Let us look at them one by one. Surely not by inaccuracy; surely not by indifference to order, but contrariwise by divine wisdom that arranged the facts with a view to a purpose worthy of itself: God's arrangement of all things more particularly in this part of Matthew to give us an adequate manifestation of the Messiah; and, as we have seen, first, what He was to the appeal of the Jew; next, what He was and would be to Gentile faith, in still richer form and fulness. But here also is one of the great Christian truths and one of the supreme Christian challenges. In other words, it is certain that in the gospel of Luke, in whose preface we have expressly the words "set in order," the Holy Ghost does in no way tie Himself to what, after all, is the most elementary form of arrangement; for it needs little observation to see, that the simple sequence of facts as they occurred is that which demands a faithful enumeration, and nothing more. But to let you understand that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins--" then he said to the paralysed man, "Rise; lift your bed; and go to your house." But an old skin had grown hard, and had lost all its elasticity, and, if new and fermenting wine was put into it, it could not give to the pressure of the gases; it could only burst. Now He brings out not the kingdom merely, but His Church; and this not merely in view of hopeless unbelief in the mass, but of the confession of His own intrinsic glory as the Son of God by the chosen witness. (2.) If a doctor spends time only with the well, however, neither the doctor nor the sick is benefited. And the crowds were amazed. It is clear that the unclean spirit, returning, brings idolatry back again. Had the first Adam continued in his original righteousness, we had not needed a second Adam. . he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick: This statement is the first in a series of three proofs in which Jesus demonstrates His rightness of being in the company of sinners. This utter, growing rejection of Jesus was coming out now rejection, at first allowed and whispered in the heart, soon to be pronounced in words like drawn swords. Blasphemia ( G988) literally means insult or slander; and Jesus' enemies accused him of insulting God because he arrogated to himself the very powers of God. It was as if we were looking at a motion-picture and suddenly the picture stopped, and left us looking at one scene. And they have best learned the meaning of the scriptures, that have learned how to apply them as a reproof to their own faults, and a rule for their own practice. It is carefully planned and carefully designed. Hunc affectum versus omnes habet sapiens, quem versus gros suos medicus--A wise man cherishes towards all around him the feelings of a physician for his patient. (he said to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up your bed, and go home. In Matthew 9:10-13 we see Jesus sitting at a feast with tax-gatherers and sinners. So that having set the point for the actuating of her faith, the moment she touched his garment, she actuated her faith and in that moment she was healed. Hence it is that He has grouped together circumstances which make this plain, without raising the question of when they occurred; in fact, they range over a large space, and, otherwise viewed, are in total disorder. The woman of Canaan, out of the borders of Tyre and Sidon, appeals to Him; a Gentile of most ominous name and belongings a Gentile whose case was desperate; for she appeals on behalf of her daughter, grievously vexed with a devil. His gospel is the power of God unto salvation,Romans 1:16. Worshipping Jesus he said, "Look, my daughter's dead: but I know if you'll come and lay your hand on her, she'll live". Here observe, 1. But the future is in view also. Reject Him as the Messiah; in that rejection the moral glory of the Son of man would be laid as the foundation of His exaltation and manifestation another day; He was Lord of the Sabbath-day. Here then we see the beginning of the campaign against Jesus. The Lord, no doubt, knew the heart of His servant, and could feel for him in the effect that circumstances took upon him. No doubt the tempest was great; but what harm could it do to Jesus? Sometimes people tragically say, oh, God's never really done any miracle in my life. Chapter 12:43- 45 Our King Unveiling the Tactics of the Arch-Enemy Chapter 12:46- 50 Our King and His Earthly Relatives Chapter 13:1- 53 Our King Sets Forth Seven Parables of His Kingdom . For I did not come to invite the righteous, but sinners.". The Lord was in Capernaum, where Peter lived; and on a certain Sabbath-day, after the call of Peter, wrought in the synagogue mighty deeds, which are here recorded, and by Luke also. (Compare Mark 3:13-19, andMark 6:7-11; Mark 6:7-11; Luke 6:1-49; Luke 9:1-62) The mission of the apostles did not take place till afterwards. yea, they may forget, yet will not I forget thee. Now while he spoke these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay your hand on her, and she shall live ( Matthew 9:18 ). Thus, in the chapter before us, we have a very comprehensive sketch of the Lord's manifestation from that time, and in type going on to the end of the age. The unparalleled grace of the Saviour must form and fashion the saints henceforth. He saw a vast field of corn as big as the world; and one solitary man was seeking to reap it--an impossible and a heartbreaking task. 1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. They came to Jesus with a very inadequate idea of who and what he was, and yet he healed them. The Lord Jesus, even before He pronounced the sentence, for so it was, indicated what was at hand in these two instances of the Sabbath-day, though one may not now linger on them. Matthew 8:18-22). In the east cataleptic coma was by no means uncommon. He whom you detest appears to you to be unworthy of the grace of Christ. But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you . Who but God could command not only the waves, but the fish of the sea? To touch the edge of Jesus' cloak is the same kind of thing as to look for healing power in the relics and the handkerchiefs of saints. Particular epochs in Luke are noted with great care; but, speaking now of the general course of the Lord's life, a little attention will discover, from the immensely greater preponderance paid to the consideration of time in the second gospel, that there we have events from first to last given to us in their consecutive order. July 9, Ordinary 14A ( Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30) When He reigns as David's Son, there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hosts. Wise and good men should be as physicians to all about them; Christ was so. Jesus didn't touch him. . No word whatever implies that the cleansing of the leper happened at that time. There were the flute-players. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. But when he comes to speak of this himself, he neither tells us that it was his own house, nor that it was a feast, but only that he sat at meat in the house; preserving the remembrance of Christ's favours to the publicans, rather than of the respect he had paid to Christ. . He is not here sought as by the leper, the centurion, the friends of the palsied man; He Himself calls Matthew, a publican just the one to write the gospel of the despised Jesus of Nazareth. What does Matthew 9:12 mean? I have endeavoured, though, of course, cursorily, and I feel most imperfectly, to give thus far Matthew's sketch of the Saviour as the Holy Ghost enabled him to execute it. And then Jesus talks about really, the worthlessness of reformation. Enduring Word Bible Commentary Matthew Chapter 5 Judgment will have early cut them off. If this be a sound judgment, the comparison of the first chapter of Mark affords decisive evidence that the Holy Ghost in Matthew has taken the leper out of the mere time and circumstances of actual occurrence, and has reserved his case for a wholly different service. It is not a question of bringing in law to govern the kingdom or guide the Church. So while Jesus was with his disciples, was not the time for fasting. It is not only the preacher who must be certain. The mourners were so luxuriating in their grief that they even resented hope. It is formed from the word splangchna ( G4698) , which means the bowels, and it describes the compassion which moves a man to the deepest depths of his being. We attempt to pour the truth of new discoveries into creeds which are based on Greek metaphysics. There was a duty of anything from 2.5 per cent to 12.5 per cent on all goods imported and exported. There never can be strength in the soul till forgiveness is known. In later times, when the Jews were universally persecuted, the tassels were worn on the undergarment, and today they are worn on the prayer-shawl which a devout Jew wears when he prays.
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