Matthew 2:1-20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 2:18

“A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; And she would not be comforted, Because they are not.” The prophecy is taken from Jeremiah 31:15. There Israel is seen in terms of Rachel, the mother of the clans of Joseph and Benjamin, Ephraim and Manasseh. But the sons of her slave would also be seen as hers, and apparently Leah’s children as well. For Rachel is seen as weeping for all Israel. And why is she weeping? In context it is because her... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 2:19

‘But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,’ This comment contains within it the idea of the inevitability of Herod’s death. It was to be expected in view of what he had done. For death comes to all who sin. And immediately after it God sprang into action. The angel of the Lord again appears to Joseph, this time in a dream in Egypt. God was about to effectively call His Son out of Egypt, the next stage in His process of salvation. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 2:20

“Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for they are dead who sought the young child’s life.” Joseph is told to arise and take the young child, with His mother, and go into ‘the land of Israel’. Note again the reference to His mother as an added extra. All attention is on Jesus. She is mentioned in order to emphasise Jesus youthfulness. He is still a ‘young child’. The description ‘the land of Israel’ (repeated in the next verse, and nowhere else in the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 2:1-12

Matthew 2. Three Incidents of Christ’ s Childhood. Matthew 2:1-2 Kings : . The Visit of the Magians.—“ The religion of the Magi well deserved the double honour of stimulating the growth of the doctrine of the Future Life in Judaism, and of offering the first homage of the Gentile world to the Redeemer” (J. H. Moulton, “ Magi,” HSDB). [See on the relations of this story to Magianism, J. H. Moulton’ s Early Zoroastrianism, pp. 282– 285. He says, “ The narrative might have been composed by a... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 2:13-18

Matthew 2:13-Job : . The Flight into Egypt and the Massacre of the Innocents.— While Mt. says Jesus was born before Herod’ s death (how long before he does not say), Lk. suggests, by his reference to Quirinius, that it was after. But see Luke 2:1-Leviticus : *. Matthew 2:15 . Hosea 11:1 *. It looks as though Mt. made the incident fit the quotation, cf. Abbott, op. cit., p. 413. A second-century Jewish tradition speaks of Jesus working as a labourer in Egypt, and practising magic ere he... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 2:19-23

Matthew 2:19-Isaiah : . The Settlement at Nazareth.— By Herod’ s will Archelaus (p. 609) held the title of King till the Emperor Augustus forbade it. In Galilee, another of Herod’ s sons, Antipas (p. 609), was tetrarch. There is here no thought that Nazareth (p. 29) was Joseph’ s previous home. He goes there because ( a) Judæ a might be dangerous, ( b) prophecy must be fulfilled. For Mt. the question of the Messiah’ s birthplace does not arise; Joseph and Mary live in Bethlehem, and it... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 2:1

That Joseph, the legal father of Jesus, was of Nazareth in Galilee, appears from Luke 2:4, where we are told that he went from thence unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David); to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife: for, it seems, so was the emperor’s decree, Luke 2:1, and Cyrenius the governor of Syria had ordered that every one should go to be taxed in his own tribe and city. Those words, of Judea, were added to distinguish the... read more

Matthew Poole

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

Jerusalem was the metropolis of Judea; thither they come, as to the most likely place where to receive satisfaction. Of whom they inquired the Scripture saith not, but it is observable that they took notice that there was a person born who was to be an illustrious King of the Jewish nation, they speak not at all doubtfully as to that. This information they doubtless had from a Divine revelation, for although there was an extraordinary star appeared, which might let them know that God had... read more

Matthew Poole

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

Herod was hardly warm in his kingdom, and had taken Jerusalem by force, and was therefore much concerned to hear that there was a new King born; and supposing him to have been all his life acquainted with the Jewish writings and records, where were prophecies of the Messias under the notion of a King, and not knowing that the kingdom of the Messias was not to be of this world, but being possessed of the ordinary nation of the Jews, that the Messias should restore a temporal kingdom to Israel,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 2:4

In this perplexity the king Herod calleth a synod or convocation, which was made up of the chief priests and scribes; the single question which he propounds to them was to resolve him where Christ should be born. It is most likely this was an extraordinary convention of such of these persons as the king thought fit, who were best skilled in the law, and other revelations of holy writ, not any orderly meeting of the sanhedrim; for the question propounded to them was of mere ecclesiastical... read more

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