matthew-18:22-niv

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 18:21-22

But How Often Should We Forgive? (18:21-22). The idea that disciples should approach those who have sinned against them and seek to be reconciled with them raised in Peter’s mind the question of how often this was required. How often should someone who fails be forgiven? And when he suggested that possibly he should forgive ‘seven times’ he probably knew that he was outdoing the Scribes with their ‘three times’. Thus he may well have been looking for and expecting Jesus’ commendation for his... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 18:22

‘Jesus says to him, “I do not say to you, “Until seven times”, but, “Until seventy times seven”. So Jesus is basically saying, “No Peter, there is no limit. Think in terms of seventy times seven.” Jesus was not, however, saying that a person could be forgiven four hundred and ninety times. He was saying that there is no limit to how often a person can be forgiven. This is good news for us, for there are many sins that we have committed far more than four hundred and ninety times, and yet here... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 18:21-35

Matthew 18:21-Habakkuk : . The Duty of Forgiveness Illustrated by the Parable of the Ungrateful Servant.— With Matthew 18:21 cf. Luke 17:4, which makes repentance a condition. The Rabbis taught ( Yoma, 86 b) that one must forgive one’ s “ brother” (OT “ neighbour” ) three times ( cf. Amos 1:3; Amos 1:6; Amos 1:9). According to Jesus, men’ s forgive ness should be limitless, like that of His Father in heaven. The natural man longs for limitless revenge ( Genesis 4:24), “ the spiritual... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 18:21-22

Luke hath something like this Luke 17:4, but it seemeth to have been spoken at another time, and upon some other occasion; yet the sense is much the same, and there are who think that Peter’s mention of seven times arose from our Saviour’s command there, that we should forgive our brother offending us seven times, when our Saviour by it intended not a certain and definite number, but a number uncertain and indefinite. But it is a greater question, what sinning and what forgiveness is there... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 18:21-35

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 18:22. Until seventy times seven.—That is, as often as there is a cause—a certain number is put for an uncertain (John Wesley).Matthew 18:24. Ten thousand talents.—The talent was not a coin, but a weight or sum of money. See margins A.V. and R.V. The amount here intended cannot be exactly determined. “Even if silver talents are meant, the sum is enormous—at least two million pounds of our money. It was probably more than the whole annual revenue of Palestine at this time”... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 18:21-22

Matthew 18:21-22 You will not find a single saying of Christ which has any approach to a maxim of morality, or which draws near to a limited opinion on the subjects which belong to religious life, or thought, or feeling. There is nothing He ever said which is to be taken literally, nothing which is not said within the region where the pure imagination is imperial master. Here is an instance in His talk with Peter. Peter wanted a literal statement as to the duty of forgiveness, its practice and... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 18:1-35

Now at the same time there came disciples to Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? ( Matthew 18:1 )Oh, boy how they longed for this. You're talking about motivation, and the disciples were not pure in their motivations. They were always wrangling about well, I am going to be bigger than you. I'll be better then you. I have a better place than you, and their motivations were not always the purest. And they, many times, were arguing about these things, the greatest. In... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 18:1-35

Matthew 18:1 . Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? The comparative μειζων greater, is put here for the superlative. By the kingdom of heaven, they meant the worldly glory of the church in the present life, as when they asked, “Lord wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” Acts 1:6. Our Saviour’s having promised the keys to Peter, though the power of remission was afterwards equally given to all, as in Matthew 18:18, might have suggested some idea of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 18:21-22

Matthew 18:21-22Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? The forgiveness of injuriesI. The best exemplification of the spirit of forgiveness is our Lord’s own life. There were two kinds of sin in these days of which Christ took cognizance; those against society or the race, and those against Himself. To each He applied the principle of the text. He forgave the vilest sinners who came to Him; and Saul who persecuted His Church. But we find the highest illustrations of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 18:22

22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. Ver. 22. Until seventy times seven ] i.e. Infinities, toties quoties. God multiplieth pardons, Isaiah 55:7 ; so should we. "Love covereth all sins," Proverbs 10:12 , so large is the skirt of love’s mantle. Between God and us the distance is infinite, and if it were possible, our love to him, and to our friends in him, our foes for him, should fill up that distance, and extend itself to... read more