matthew-16:1-2,-luke-12:54-56-niv

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 16:1-4

The signs of the Messiah. Coming into the borders of Magadan, after the miracles of the mountain in which he healed all manner of diseases, and miraculously feasted about eight thousand persons, Jesus encountered the Pharisees and Sadducees, who, sinking their sectarian differences for the time, agreed to tempt or test him by demanding a special sign of his Messiahship. Jesus declined to gratify them in this, appealing to the signs of the times which should be sufficient for them, and giving... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 16:1-12

The visit to Galilee. I. THE LORD CROSSES THE LAKE TO THE WESTERN SHORE . 1 . He dismisses the multitude. They went away quietly, it seems. There was no need now to constrain the disciples to depart first. The people did not attempt to take the Lord by force to make him a King. They were more docile than the five thousand had been. They were full of thankfulness. They glorified the God of Israel. But they were simple-hearted people; they did not regard themselves as... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 16:2

The paragraph consisting of this and Matthew 16:3 is omitted by many good manuscripts, probably owing to its similarity to the passage in Matthew 12:38 . These verses are most probably genuine; and they certainly could not have been foisted into the text from Luke 12:54-56 . The circumstances are too different, and the variations too marked, to make such interpolation probable. When it is evening. The Pharisees had demanded a sign from heaven; Jesus points to the western glow in the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 16:1-4

See also Mark 8:11-12.The Pharisees also, and the Sadducees - See the notes at Matthew 3:7.Tempting - That is, trying him - feigning a desire to see evidence that he was the Messiah, but with a real desire to see him make the attempt to work a miracle and fail, so that they might betray him and ruin him.A sign from heaven - Some miraculous appearance in the sky. Such appearances had been given by the prophets; and they supposed, if he was the Messiah, that his miracles would not all be confined... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 16:1

Matthew 16:1. The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came Notwithstanding the difference of their principles, and the alienation of their affections from each other, they now agreed to join in an attempt upon Christ; his doctrine being equally opposed to the errors and vices of both these sects; see the note on Matthew 3:7: tempting, or, trying him, as πειραζοντες properly signifies; (see note on Matthew 4:1,) that is, making trial, in a crafty and insnaring manner, whether he was able... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 16:2-3

Matthew 16:2-3. He answered, When it is evening, &c. As if he had said, It is evident you ask this out of a desire to cavil rather than to discern the divine will, for in other cases you take up with degrees of evidence far short of those which you here reject: as for instance, you know that a red sky in the evening is a presage of fair weather, and a red and lowering sky in the morning, of foul weather; thus ye can discern the face of the sky, and form from thence very probable... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Matthew 16:1-12

72. Beware of Pharisees and Sadducees (Matthew 16:1-12; Mark 8:11-21; Luke 12:1-3,Luke 12:54-56)In spite of all that Jesus had done, the Pharisees and Sadducees still demanded he produce a special sign to satisfy them. Jesus refused. They could look at the sky and work out what the weather would be like, but when they looked at Jesus’ miracles they refused to believe what the miracles told them, namely, that Jesus was the Son of God. The only sign Jesus would give them would be his... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Matthew 16:1

Pharisees . . . Sadducees. See App-120 . came = having come to [Him]. a sign. Compare Matthew 12:38 . from = out of. Greek. ek. heaven = the heaven, or sky (singular), same as in verses: Matthew 2:3 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Matthew 16:2

He = And He. It will be. Omit. fair weather. Greek. eudia. Occurs only here, and in Matthew 16:3 . the sky = the heaven (sing), as in Matthew 16:1 (see note on Matthew 6:9 , Matthew 6:10 ). This is the point of the question. red. Greek. purrazo. Occurs only here, and in Matthew 16:3 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 16:1

MATT. 16THE PHARISEES ASK A SIGN FROM HEAVEN; THE INFLUENCE OF THE PHARISEES; PETER'S CONFESSION OF CHRIST; THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PASSION AND RESURRECTIONAnd the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and trying him asked him to show them a sign from heaven. (Matthew 16:1)This indicates that Christ was at that time back on the west side of Lake Galilee, which was Pharisaical territory. The request of those enemies of Jesus for a sign from heaven was actually intended to cast a reflection on the... read more