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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 11:12-15

The identification of the King’s forerunner 11:12-15This section further explains John the Baptist’s crucial place in God’s kingdom program. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 11:14-15

In the previous two verses Jesus spoke of the imminent kingdom. It was encountering severe opposition. In these two verses He discussed the potential beginning of the kingdom.The messianic kingdom would come if the Jews would accept it. In the Greek text the conditional particle (ei) assumes for the sake of the argument that they would receive it. Assuming they would, John would fulfill Malachi’s prophecy about Elijah being Messiah’s forerunner (Malachi 4:5-6)."There is scarcely a passage in... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 11:10

11:10 written, (b-8) Malachi 3:1 . read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 11:11

11:11 one (c-28) Or 'the least.' It is the comparative degree; whoever else is taken, the 'one' is less; the idiomatic force is more preserved by 'a little one.' read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 11:12

11:12 violence, (d-19) As 'forces his way,' Luke 16:16 . read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 11:14

11:14 is (e-11) By saying, 'who is to come,' it is left in the abstract as in Greek -- the one who had this character in their mind. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 11:1-30

The Disciples of the Baptist1. Tours of Jesus after dismissing His apostles. The apostles started on their mission about five weeks before the second Passover of the ministry (28 a.d.) and were away about a month. Jesus spent the interval partly in Galilee and partly in Jerusalem, whither he went to keep the Feast of Purim at the beginning of March (John 5:1). He rejoined the Twelve shortly before the Passover (John 6:4), and immediately afterwards fed the five thousand (Mark 6:30; Luke 9:10).... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 11:7

(7) As they departed.—There was an obvious risk that those who heard the question of the Baptist, and our Lord’s answer, might be led to think with undue harshness, perhaps even with contempt, of one who had so far failed in steadfastness. As if to meet that risk, Jesus turns, before the messengers were out of hearing, to bear His testimony to the work and character of John. But a little while before, almost as his last public utterance, the forerunner had borne his witness to the King (John... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 11:8

(8) A man clothed in soft raiment?-Had they seen, then, one who shared in the luxury, and courted the favour of princes? No, not so, again. They that wear soft clothing, or, as in St. Luke’s report, “they that are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately,” are in kings’ houses. The words had a more pointed reference than at first sight appears. Jewish historians (Jost, Gesch. Jud. I. 259.) record how in the early days of Herod the Great a section of the scribes had attached themselves to his... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 11:9

(9) What went ye out for to see? A prophet?—The words again throw the hearers back upon the impressions made on them when they first saw and heard the Baptist. They then went out to see a prophet, and they were not, disappointed. Nothing that they had seen or heard since was to lead them to think less worthily of him now. He was indeed a prophet, taught by the Spirit of Jehovah, predicting the glory of the kingdom; but he was also something more than this—a worker in the fulfilment of what he... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 11:12-15

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 11:14-15

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 11:10

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 11:11

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 11:12

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 11:14

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 11:1-30

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 11:7

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 11:8

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 11:9

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