matthew-11:1-15-web

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:2-3

The instance of this text alone is enough to convince the observing reader of holy writ, that the evangelists do not set down all things in that order as they were done. We have heard nothing before of John’s being cast into prison in this gospel, nor do we hear any thing here of the story of it, till Matthew 14:6, when our evangelist occasionally relates it something largely. He here tells us of something done during his imprisonment, viz. his sending two of his disciples to Christ, to be... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:4-6

We must imagine these disciples of John to have stayed with Christ some time, and to have seen him work some of these miracles, and to have heard him preach, and seen the great success of his ministry, and then to have left him with this answer. Luke therefore addeth, Luke 7:21, And in the same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. Then he repeateth the answer which we have here, in which our Saviour refereth unto... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:7-9

Luke repeating the same story, Luke 7:24-26, instead of they that wear soft clothing, saith, they that are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts. Our Saviour here doth tacitly imply, that the ministers of the gospel should neither be uncertain and inconstant men, nor yet delicate men, affecting splendid apparel or delicate diet, but minding their great work, viz. the revelation of the will of God. But the scope of his present speech here, was to confirm the multitude... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:10-11

St. Luke hath the same, Luke 7:27,Luke 7:28, only he saith, there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist. It was written, Malachi 3:1, Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. The latter part was a prophecy of Christ. The former part a prophecy of John the Baptist, and applied to him not in... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:12

As John Baptist was a great man, so the Lord hath owned him as such, giving such a success to his ministry, that ever since he began the course of it, men have been carried on with a great ardour and heat, in hearing and receiving the gospel, which is the gospel of the kingdom, and bringeth men into the kingdom of Christ amongst men, and at last to the kingdom of glory. The hearts of men and women have been inflamed with a desire after the knowledge and obtaining of heaven, and heavenly things.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:13

It is no wonder that there was such a heat kindled in the souls of people upon John the Baptist’s coming, for they understood that Christ, typified in the law, and only foretold by the prophets, was now come. So as the ceremonial law from his time began to die, and all the prophecies of Christ in the prophets began then to have their complement. John showed them with his finger him who before had been only darkly revealed under types and figures, and in the prophecies of the prophets; men came... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:14

God had told the Jews, Malachi 4:5,Malachi 4:6, that he would send them Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers, lest (saith he) I come and smite the earth with a curse. This prophecy related to John the Baptist, as our Saviour here teacheth us; so, Luke 1:17, it is confirmed by the angel to Zacharias, and Mark 9:11. From which last text it appeareth,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:15

It is an epiphonema or conclusion often used by our Saviour, (and by St. John in the Revelation), quickening up the hearers to a just attention to and belief of what in the doctrine preceding he had revealed to them; intimating that he knew, that what he had said would not be entertained or believed of all, but only of such whose ears and hearts God had opened, or should open to receive spiritual mysteries. But it was a matter of great concernment, he therefore calls upon those whose ears God... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 11:1-6

CRITICAL NOTESThe general heading of the chapter may be given as: Jesus judging His contemporaries and Himself (A. B. Bruce, D.D.). Hitherto almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our Evangelist’s record of the Saviour’s ministry. But the path of the King is not to be a triumphal progress. It is to be a via dolorosa, leading to a cross and a grave. It is not at all to be wondered at, then, that the Evangelist should now give his readers some idea of the discouragements which met... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 11:7-15

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 11:7. And as they departed, etc.—Dr. Plumptre holding that the Baptist himself was really in doubt, and sent his disciples to Christ for his own satisfaction, remarks on this verse: “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... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:2-3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:4-6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:7-9

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:10-11

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:12

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:13

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:14

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:15

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 11:1-6

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 11:7-15

Grupo de marcas