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Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 16:2

But he answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the heaven is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the heaven is red and lowering. Ye know how to discern the face of the heaven; but ye cannot discern the signs of the times.This was not an endorsement of the Pharisees' method of predicting the weather, but was a glaring contrast, pointed out by Jesus, between their supposed sagacity in material things and their blindness to far... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 16:1

Matthew 16:1. The Pharisees also— Dr. Campbell reads the last verse of the last chapter and the prefect verse, Then having dismissed the multitude, he embarked, and sailed to the coast of Magdala. Thither some Pharisees and Sadducees repaired, who, to try him, desired that he would shew them a sign in the sky. Whilst Jesus wasinDalmanutha,orMagdala,thePharisees, having heard of the second miraculous dinner, and fearing that the whole body of the people would acknowledge him for the Messiah,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 16:2-3

Matthew 16:2-3. He—said unto them, &c.— Our Saviour's reply may be thus paraphrased: "It is most apparent that you ask this out of a desire to cavil, rather than to learn 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 readily say in an evening, It will be fair weather to-morrow; because the sky is, this evening, of a bright and fiery red: And in the morning,—It will be tempestuous weather to-day, for... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 16:1

Matthew introduced the Pharisees and Sadducees with one definite article in the Greek text. Such a construction implies that they acted together. That is remarkable since they were political and theological enemies (cf. Acts 23:6-10). However a common opponent sometimes transforms enemies into allies (cf. Luke 23:12; Psalms 2:2). Representatives of both parties constituted the Sanhedrin, the highest Jewish governing body in Israel (cf. Acts 23:6). This delegation, evidently from Jerusalem,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 16:1-4

The renewed demand for a sign 16:1-4 (cf. Mark 8:11-12) read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 16:1-12

7. The opposition of the Pharisees and Sadducees 16:1-12Back in Jewish territory Jesus faced another attack from Israel’s religious leaders. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 16:2-3

Jesus replied that His critics did not need a special sign since many things pointed to His being the Messiah. They could read the sky well enough to predict what the weather would be like soon. However they could not read what was happening in their midst well enough to know that their Messiah had appeared. The proof that they could not discern the signs of the times was that they asked for a sign."It is surprising that in a wide variety of different fields of knowledge human beings can be so... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 16:1-28

St. Peter’s great Confession1-4. A sign from heaven demanded (Mark 8:11 cp. Luke 11:16: see on Matthew 12:38). 1. Pharisees.. Sadducees] An unnatural and unholyalliance of men whose only bond of union was hatred of Jesus. The Sadducees had probably been sent from Jerusalem by the chief priests, but some regard them as the same as the Herodians mentioned by St. Mark, and, therefore, Galileans.From heaven] Jewish superstition held that the demons could work signs on earth, but that only God could... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 16:1

XVI.(1) The Pharisees also with the Sadducees.—The presence of members of the latter sect, who do not elsewhere appear in our Lord’s Galilean ministry, is noticeable. It is probably explained by St. Mark’s version of the warning in Matthew 16:6, where “the leaven of Herod” appears as equivalent to “the leaven of the Sadducees” in St. Matthew’s report. The Herodians were the Galilean Sadducees, and the union of the two hostile parties was the continuation of the alliance which had begun after... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 16:2

(2) When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather.—It is remarkable that some of the best MSS., including the Vatican and Sinaitic, omit the whole of these suggestive words. We can hardly think of them, however, looking to their singular originality of form, as interpolated by a later transcriber, and have therefore to ask how we can explain the omission. They are not found in St. Mark, and this in itself shows that there were some reports of our Lord’s answer to the Pharisees in which... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 16:2

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 16:1

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 16:2-3

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 16:1

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 16:1-4

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 16:1-12

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 16:2-3

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 16:1-28

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 16:1

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 16:2

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