matthew-8:22,-luke-9:60

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 8:22

(22) Let the dead bury their dead.—The point of the half-epigrammatic, half-proverbial saying, lies in the contrast between the two meanings of the word “dead.” “Let those who have no spiritual life linger in the circle of outward routine duties, and sacrifice the highest spiritual possibilities of their nature to their fulfilment. Those who are really living will do the work to which their Master calls them, and leave the lower conventional duties to be done or left undone as the events of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Matthew 8:1-34

The Healing of the Leper Matthew 8:3 These words, spoken to a leper, were the very last words that anyone, save He Who spake them, would have dreamed of saying. Most men, if they had spoken at all, would have bidden him keep his distance; some few might have flung to him a word or two of passing pity; one here and there might have bestowed an alms on him; but not one would even for a moment have thought of saying, 'Be thou clean'. It was left for Jesus to say to the poor wretch at His feet,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Matthew 8:1-34

Chapter 8The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1-34 - Matthew 9:1-35REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing all manner of diseases. Of the teaching and preaching we have had a signal illustration in what is called the Sermon on the Mount; now the other great branch of the work is set before us in a group of miracles, filling up almost the whole of the eighth and ninth chapters.The naturalness of the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Matthew 8:1-34

6. The King Manifested by Signs of Divine Power. Chapters 8-9. CHAPTER 8 1. The Healing of the Leper. (Matthew 8:1-4 .) 2. The Healing of the Centurion's Servant. (Matthew 8:5-13 .) 3. The Healing of Peter's Wife's Mother.(Matthew 8:14-15 .) 4. The Healing of All. (Matthew 8:16-17 .) 5. The Self-seeking Scribe and the Test of True Discipleship.(Matthew 8:18-22 .) 6. His Power over Nature. (Matthew 8:23-27 .) 7. His Power over the Demons. (Matthew 8:28-34 .) With the eighth chapter we... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:1-34

Now the King comes down among the people from the height from which He had given them wise instruction. For He is not only their teacher: He will experience their sorrows, and show His heart of compassion in the midst of adverse circumstances. The real condition of His people was sinful, and this was illustrated in the leper (typical of men's being sadly corrupted by sin), who is nevertheless drawn to worship Him, as a small remnant of Israel did in the beginning of the day of grace. Faith... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Matthew 8:1-34

CREDENTIALS OF THE KING We have seen that the Sermon on the Mount was probably separate discourses grouped by the evangelist under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, for a particular purpose. That purpose was the presentation of Jesus to the Jews as the Messiah, the King promised them in the Old Testament. In like manner, the miracles now following were probably wrought at different times but grouped by the evangelist for the same purpose. Jesus had come proclaiming the Kingdom to be at hand;... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Matthew 8:8-26

Notes Matthew 8:8 . Not worthy. "The proud hill tops let the rain run off; the lowly valleys are richly watered." Augustine. Matthew 8:14 . "Peter's wife was still living twenty-five years afterwards, when St. Paul wrote his first letter to the Corinthian Church, 1 Corinthians 9:5 . Probably all the apostles were young men, not much over thirty." Conder. Matthew 8:21 . Suffer me first. "These words imply, what St. Luke expressly records, that Jesus had laid on him the command to follow... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Matthew 8:18-22

Chapter 32 Prayer Almighty God, we come to thee in the name of Jesus Christ, our Saviour and our Priest, our only answer to thy law. We live in thy remembrance of us: when thou dost forget us, we shall die in the darkness of thy frown. Who can stand the neglect of God? Thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. That thou givest them, they gather; thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good thou turnest away thine eyes and they die in the infinite darkness.... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Matthew 8:18-22

As this is the first place in the Gospel we meet with the phrase Son of MAN, in reference to the person of CHRIST; and especially as it is a phrase the LORD JESUS was pleased frequently to make use of, and delighted in; I beg the Reader not to pass it by hastily. I do not presume to speak decidedly upon it, but yet I would humbly ask, Did not the SON of GOD take pleasure in shewing thereby his wonderful condescension, and his wonderful love to our nature? Think, Reader! what an endearment of... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Matthew 8:22

Let the dead bury their dead. The first words, let the dead, cannot mean those that were dead by a corporal death; and therefore must needs be understood of those who were spiritually dead in sin. (Witham) --- Two similar answers are mentioned in Luke ix. 57, 60. Jesus Christ may have given the same answers on two different occasions. (Bible de Vence) --- God will not suffer us to go and bury a deceased parent, when he calls us to other employments. (St. John Chrysostom) read more